William of England is at the center of the public activities of the British royal family | International

It was Elizabeth II who said at the time that people had to see it to believe it. The presence of the monarch, as well as the most relevant members of the Windsor family, at hundreds of public events across the United Kingdom is fundamental to keeping alive the institution’s sentimental bond with citizens. Buckingham Palace has taken it upon itself to reiterate in recent days that the cancer diagnosed in Charles III and his treatment, which began on Monday, do not require the activation of any constitutional replacement mechanism. But doctors’ recommendation to avoid live events in the coming months has put the Prince of Wales, William of England, heir to the throne, at the forefront.

This Wednesday he attended the awards ceremony at Windsor Castle and the day closed with his presence at the London Air Ambulance’s annual gala, dedicated to raising funds for this institution. The British media was confident that William would use this event to refer to his father’s diagnosis. “I want to take this opportunity to thank you for all the kind messages of support for both Catalina [Kate Middleton] like for my father, especially in the last few days. They mean a lot to all of us,” he said during a speech that he tried to temper with a dose of humor. “We could say that the last few days have focused on a medical component. So it occurred to me to attend a gala of ‘Air Ambulance to get away from all this a bit,’ he joked. William of England was a pilot for two years in this medical air service.

The Prince of Wales announced in mid-January his desire to take a break from public commitments in order to look after his children and his wife, Kate Middleton, who is still recovering from abdominal surgery which kept her hospitalized for two weeks and This will keep her away from her duties as a senior member of the royal family, at least until Easter.

The shocking turn in the monarch’s health, however, has once again imposed on William the obligations expected of him as heir to the crown. And the foreseeable increase in his public presence will remind many of his father’s very presence in the months following the pandemic, when Elizabeth II began to have “mobility problems”. At the beginning they are completely different situations. Charles III’s cancer (Buckingham Palace did not want to specify what type it is) was discovered “at a very early stage”, as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak revealed to the BBC. The monarch maintains a “positive attitude” towards his treatment, which is why he will continue to deal with the usual matters of state (reading daily reports or weekly meetings with Sunak).

The new situation, in any case, has an unexpected effect. If Charles III had insisted, in his 18 months of reign, on being a very active monarch, with an eventful agenda and direct contact with the people, his cancer treatment slowed his momentum. And it will help William begin to show, long before his father’s turn when he was heir Prince of Wales, what the forms, attitudes and priorities of the future monarchy will be.

Accounts The Telegraph newspaper that Charles III gave permission to his son and heir to continue to focus his attention on his three children and wife, even if he had to bring forward his public reappearance to attend the planned events. The main objectives of the Prince of Wales, through his foundations, are the defense of the environment and the protection and help of the homeless. Together with them, their main task is to assist the monarch in everything he needs. The new reality has meant that this second obligation prevails over the previous ones.

Enrique’s fleeting visit

As soon as his father informed him of the diagnosis by phone, Prince Harry boarded a private plane to travel immediately from Los Angeles to London. The second son of Charles III distanced himself almost irremediably from the family after deciding to abandon public duties and retire to live in California with his wife Meghan Markle. Memories of him, Replacement (in Spanish, In the shadows), have sold more than three million copies worldwide, and had to settle scores with their father and brother Guillermo.

Charles III was able to see his newly arrived son for 30 minutes in London, before retiring to rest at his residence in Sandringham. The British tabloids have speculated a lot about a reunion caused by the disease (in many cases, which is why the families have made peace), but given the brevity of the meeting, and the fact that Enrique immediately returned to the United States without exchanging two words with his brother William, everything suggests that the balsamic effect of the king’s illness, which has aroused many good wishes in the United Kingdom and in the world, is not capable of reaching the point of reconciling two brothers profoundly distant in their emotional relationships and in their respective destinies .

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