Prince William speaks about the year 2024: “It was terrible”

Great Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince William (42), has spoken unusually openly about personal stress in recent months. At the end of a trip abroad to South Africa, he was asked about the year in which both his wife Princess Kate (42) and his father King Charles III. (75) were treated for cancer. “Honestly, it was terrible. It was probably the hardest year of my life,” he said, according to the British news agency PA. It was difficult to do everything else and keep everything on track.

“But I’m so proud of my wife, I’m proud of my father, for getting things done,” William was quoted as saying. “But from a personal family standpoint, yes, it was brutal.”

At the beginning of the year, the royal family made it public that Charles was being treated for an unspecified cancer. Later, Kate also announced a cancer diagnosis. She received chemotherapy – the completion of which she recently announced in a video.

In the meantime, William took fewer public appointments in order to take more care of his children Prince George (11), Princess Charlotte (9) and Prince Louis (6). He himself lost his mother at an early age – Princess Diana died in a car accident in 1997.

William was in South Africa for the Earthshot Prize, without his wife or children. At the end of the trip, he spoke to the British media in more detail about this year for the first time, PA reported. When he was told he seemed relaxed, he said: “I couldn’t be less relaxed this year.”