Prince William is “frightening proximity” to the throne and it’s causing him and his wife “intense…
Prince William is reportedly in “frightening proximity” to ascending the British throne amid his father King Charles III’s ongoing battle with cancer.
“The almost simultaneous news of Charles’s cancer has put William and Catherine in frightening proximity to ascending the throne just when they had hoped for a span of years to parent their children out of the public eye,” journalist Tina Brown claimed in a New York Times essay.
William and his wife, Kate Middleton — who is also battling cancer — share three kids: Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6.
The former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief asserted the idea of William becoming the reigning sovereign has spurred much stress for the couple.
“The prospect of it, I am told, is causing them intense anxiety,” she wrote.
Brown also claimed that several scandals surrounding the royal family — including Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s estrangement from the royal family as well as Prince Andrew’s ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — have put William and Middleton “under unmanageable pressure”.
“Catherine is the most popular member of the royal family after William,” she wrote, adding, “The future of the monarchy hangs by a thread, and that thread is her.”
Brown furthered that William, 41, and Middleton, 42, are burdened with more responsibilities than just her health condition.
“A tidal wave of premature responsibility is crashing in her and William’s direction,” she said. “Frozen, unready and with Catherine now seriously unwell, the Prince and Princess of Wales await the awesome burden of the crown.
