\u2018Scandalous\u2019: Royal Family\u2019s $260m payday slammed<\/a><\/p>\nThe prince, the same photographer said, \u201cAlways tells me to f**k off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oh dear. You cannot buy that sort of bad publicity.<\/p>\n
This William \u2013 fiery and irascible \u2013 is rarely seen in public and could not be further than image he and his reported team of about 60 staff spend considerable time, energy and hashtags trying to promulgate, of a cool King-in-the-wings who knows his way around the recycling bin and loves to selfie with fans.<\/p>\n
But what has emerged over the last few years is that there seem to be two Williams, Mr On and Mr Off-Duty. One, who in public, gives picture perfect charm-a-rama prince and the other who has a fuse that can be measured in millimetres. <\/p>\n
In 2023, a video emerged of William letting spectacularly rip at a photographer who was filming the Wales family while out for a Saturday bike ride. <\/p>\n
During the clip, he angrily confronts the pap, thundering, \u201cHow dare you behave like you have done with our children? How dare you? Stalking around here looking for us and our children?<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m out for a quiet bike ride with my children \u2026 You\u2019re outrageous, you\u2019re disgusting, you really are\u201d.<\/p>\n
Decency, I\u2019d argue is firmly on William\u2019s side, given he was clearly in protective Dad mode. <\/p>\n
However the prince does not save his ire for the press.<\/p>\n
No lesser source than his own brother Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex recounted in his memoir Spare how he is brother lost it in an altercation that resulted in the tragic demise of a dog bowl.<\/p>\n
William, during the scene, \u201cstepped towards me, swearing.\u201d Harry wrote. \u201cNow I felt a bit scared \u2026 He was right on my heels, berating me, shouting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, \u201cHe grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dogs\u2019 bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me.\u201d<\/p>\n
(A source told the Mirror\u2019s royal editor Russell Myers earlier this year of the incident, <\/p>\n
\u201ctensions were running very high, and yes, there certainly were cross words exchange \u2026 the prince [William] is adamant there was no physical violence.\u201d)<\/p>\n
What may or may not have happened, the Prince of Wales is clearly not a cool, calm or collected.<\/p>\n
William can be \u201cdifficult to handle\u201d, insiders told veteran royal chronicler Robert Jobson for his 2025 book The Windsor Legacy. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cEven senior aides are known to tread lightly around the older prince, mindful of his mood swings before raising sensitive issues\u201d, Jobson wrote. <\/p>\n
Others tell a similar story. In Tom Lacey\u2019s revelation-packed Battle of Brothers he says the Prince of Wales \u201chas proved no Sweet William when roused.\u201d<\/p>\n
Queen Camilla, per Bower, told friends that after marrying Charles, was \u201chorrified at the ranting and raving that on occasion William \u2026 unleashed\u201d at the now King Charles. <\/p>\n
Of the father and son, \u201cthe rows have been earth-shattering,\u201d Bower writes, \u201cwith William doing the shouting and Charles submitting meekly on the receiving end. As she has described it, William holds nothing back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Others suggest Charles can dish it out too. Both men, according to Tom Quinn in Yes Ma\u2019am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants<\/i>, \u201care prone to tantrums if things are not done to their liking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey both get irritated very quickly,\u201d one former member of staff told him. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey have had these things done for them, so they are very picky. People who have everything done for them from childhood tend to be rather spoiled and prone to bouts of irritation\u201d. <\/p>\n
In fact there are plenty of stories about William\u2019s temper going back to his earliest years. When he started preschool he reportedly earned the nicknames \u201cBasher Wills\u201d or \u201cBilly the Basher\u201d. <\/p>\n
Aged five years old and at a birthday party threw a tantrum at not being allowed to blow out the candles on the cake and then threw food and ice cream around the room. <\/p>\n
His nanny, Ruth Wallace, made him clean up the mess before they went home. <\/p>\n
In the mid naughties, when the dozens of press would stake out his girlfriend Kate Middleton\u2019s Chelsea flat, William would get \u201cvery angry\u201d and \u201cenormously frustrated\u201d, his friends said at the time. <\/p>\n
So what can be done when a coddled man, raised in the valet-ed captivity of royalty, has a tanty? Call in the big guns. <\/p>\n
Enter Kate, now The Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who know the couple best credit Kate \u2013 and indeed the Middleton family \u2013 with helping to calm fiery William\u201d, Camilla Tominey reported in the Telegraph in 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen William is flying off the handle, it is often Kate who pulls him back,\u201d one source who knows them both well told Tominey. \u201cSometimes William would let the press get to him. Kate would always be the one to say: \u2018Let it go\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
How perfectly Elsa-ish of her. <\/p>\n
Still, at least William\u2019s tendency towards the furious is in line with a not-so-proud royal tradition of monarchical melting down. Georges V and VI were famously short tempered and who can forget the current King losing it over a pen days after his accession in 2023?<\/p>\n
At least he has learnt the subtle art of getting over it. <\/p>\n
Back in Norfolk under that tree with the photographers out Andrew\u2019s home know all too well they know His Majesty\u2019s MO well. Said one: \u201cCharles will give me a bollocking and then shake my hand the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniela Elser is a writer, editor and commentator with more than 15 years\u2019 experience working with a number of Australia\u2019s leading media titles.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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