{"id":2141842,"date":"2025-11-07T22:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2141842"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:45:26","slug":"prince-william-expertly-dodges-question-about-royal-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-william-expertly-dodges-question-about-royal-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William Expertly Dodges Question About Royal Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prince William put his PR skills to work during a recent interview with celebrity.land&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour as he skirted a personal question about the tensions within the Royal family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Amanpour, 67, asked the Prince of Wales to expand on his recent comments about his plans for when he ascends the British throne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I think it\u2019s safe to say that change is on my agenda. Change for good. And I embrace that and I enjoy that change \u2014 I don\u2019t fear it,&#8221; William previously said during an appearance on Eugene Levy&#8217;s <em>The Reluctant Traveler<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During his Wednesday, November 5, chat with Amanpour at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/prince-william-goes-brazil-without-213207168.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Earthshot Prize Impact Assembly in Brazil;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">The Earthshot Prize Impact Assembly in Brazil<\/a>, William, 43, said, &#8220;I think the Earthshot Prize is a classic example of change,&#8221; after Amanpour pointed out there &#8220;has been a lot of change in [the Royal] family recently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">William continued, &#8220;Rather than talk about it, we&#8217;re doing it. That&#8217;s where I want it to be, is that, these people in here are the true, actual heroes of our time. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/prince-william-kate-middleton-quietly-005037211.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Change will come;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Change will come<\/a> by backing them, not by what I do. I want to surround myself with people who want to make change and do good in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The world has been watching as the division in the Royal family seems to widen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">William&#8217;s brother, Prince Harry, has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/prince-harry-prince-william-spotlight-160410762.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:distanced himself from the monarchy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">distanced himself from the monarchy<\/a>, moving with his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children to California after stepping down as senior working members in 2020. In the years since, the strain on Harry&#8217;s relationship with William and their father, King Charles III, has played out in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More recently, however, Charles, 76, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/prince-william-appears-snub-prince-200326689.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:stripped his brother, Andrew;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">stripped his brother, Andrew<\/a> Mountbatten Windsor, of his royal titles and removed him from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/prince-andrew-allegedly-demands-two-120825940.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:his royal residence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">his royal residence<\/a> due to his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">William evidently did not want to broach such topics during his sitdown with Amanpour as they quickly pivoted back to his appearance on the <em>Reluctant Traveler<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You have to provide leadership and a vision that there\u2019s good things to come and that it\u2019s not all negative,&#8221; William continued. &#8220;And for my children, particularly, knowing the planet\u2019s going to be in a healthier, better state because of the brilliant people in this room is something that I love to tell them when they go to bed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>This story was originally reported by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\/prince-william-deflects-question-about-royal-family-in-new-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Parade;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Parade<\/a> on Nov 7, 2025, where it first appeared in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">News<\/a> section. 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Amanpour, 67, asked the Prince of Wales to expand on his recent comments about his plans for when he ascends the British throne. &#8220;I think it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2141843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[408666,408715,183049,408716,22730,23068,24515],"class_list":["post-2141842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-christiane-amanpour","tag-earthshot-prize-impact-assembly","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-personal-question","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-william","tag-the-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prince-William-Expertly-Dodges-Question-About-Royal-Family.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141844,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141842\/revisions\/2141844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}