Prince William has admitted that “it’s hard sometimes” for many people to see the point of the Royal Family, it is reported.
The death of the Queen brought up the question of the monarchy and the role that the royals will have going forward.
Many people had only known Queen Elizabeth as a monarch and appreciated her role in bringing stability and experience in a rapidly changing world.
But King Charles has had to address how the royals will continue being important for the country.
And William has shown he is aware that some people do wonder in their “busy” lives what the royals are actually doing.
Especially with so much debate about the feud with his brother Harry, he understands all the “causes” that they try to highlight might be forgotten.
“We’re all very busy and I think it’s hard sometimes to see what the family bring and what we do,” he said, reported The Times.
“But the amount of causes, the interests, the dinners, the meetings, the visits, whatever it is, that we do day in, day out, throughout the year, we’ve always been involved in that. It’s part of what we do.
“It’s trying to spotlight other causes, other people, other interests, and help people where we can. We’ll continue to do that.”
Long before taking the reins, Charles had already prepared a radical blueprint for a slimmed-down monarchy.
That will have gone some way towards addressing critics of the Royal Family – but the much-publicised departures of Harry and Meghan, along with the exit in disgrace of his brother, Prince Andrew, have led to fresh questions over what relevance such an institution still maintains.
The Prince and Princess of Wales’ mental health crusade broke the mould in terms of what we can expect from our royals.
No longer are subjects taboo, off limits, or too painful to discuss; no longer do royals deploy that cloak of mystery that centuries of previous generations hid behind, unknown and unreachable.
Prince William’s passion for the environment, albeit learned from his father and grandfather, as well as Kate’s early years work with children, are both aiming to make real generational change.
It is this work that speaks to a different generation – a generation that may hold the future of this institution in its hands.
