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PIERS MORGAN
Prince William’s impressive dignity in the face of so much soul-crushing turmoil and tragedy shames treacherous Harry
There were two clear examples last week of how William has proved he's got what it takes to be our next King
Imagine, for a moment, what it’s like to be Prince William right now.
In the past three years, he’s lost both his beloved grandparents, Prince Philip and our late, great Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
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Now, his father, King Charles III and his wife Kate, the Princess of Wales, are suffering from cancer.
All this after the terrible trauma of his mother Princess Diana being killed in a car crash when she was just 36 and he was just 15.
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And right when he most needs the love and support of his closest family, probably the only people he can truly trust in the world, he finds himself at war with his only sibling Prince Harry who so cruelly betrayed him for grubby pieces of Hollywood silver.
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Many people might have crumbled under the weight of all this death, sickness, tragedy and treachery.
Especially given the added strain from the onslaught of vile conspiracy theories that have raged around the world about the state of William’s marriage at a time when only he and a handful of others knew Kate was facing the toughest challenge of her life.
But if ever proof was needed that the heir to the throne has what it takes to be our next King, it’s surely been evident in the astoundingly impressive ‘show-must-go-on’ mentality that he’s displayed amid all the soul-crushing turmoil swirling around him.
Last Tuesday, William pitched up in Sheffield to promote his excellent ‘Homewards’ project to help combat homelessness.
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In many ways, it was a typical royal gig, far removed from the pomp and pageantry of the much rarer big state occasions.
This wasn’t a glamorous gala dinner in a sumptuous palace entertaining world leaders or superstar celebrities, this was a Prince meeting the People in the very ordinary surroundings of a small conference hall.
But there were two small moments during the visit which caught my eye that said so much about William.
William gets back to work after being seen at Kate’s side in first video
The first came when he listened intently to Homewards project worker Chris Lynam, 41, who described how he had turned around his life after he ended up first homeless and then in jail.
Clearly very moved, William told him: "I want to say how brave you are to be here telling your story, it's amazing where you are."
He then asked his aides to get the man’s contact details so they could stay in touch which I’m sure he will, as I’m told William always keeps his word on stuff like that.
You can’t cheat that kind of natural empathy and perhaps borne out of the personal pain he has endured, he has it in spades.
The second encounter I thought was very revealing was with another local man named Leigh Stinchcombe, 33, who was dressed in workman overalls and stopped William as he walked by, shook his hand, and asked him if he could have a photo.
Normally, the royals don’t do selfies, but William readily agreed and waited patiently as Leigh wrestled to pull out his phone from his trouser pocket and struggled to hold up it up whilst also clutching a metal coffee mug.
William, sensing the poor guy’s rising panic, offered to take his mug, and then showed Leigh what button to press so he could switch the camera lens around for their selfie, before putting his arms on his shoulder with a beaming grin so they got a good shot together.
"Thank you so much," said the delighted fan.
"What’s your name?" asked William.
"My name is Leigh."
"Have a good rest of your day," said William, shaking his hand again, then making sure he got his coffee mug back, patting him on the shoulder, saying "see you later" and walking off.
Of course, he won’t see him later.
In fact, he’ll almost certainly never see Leigh Stinchcombe again.
But that doesn’t matter, because in just 41 seconds, William made Leigh feel special, and gave him something that he will be talking about for the rest of his life.
"I was scared, I've haven't met any really famous person before," he said afterwards. "Someone told me about it [the royal visit] and I said, 'that's not right, I don't think he will be coming to Sheffield'. He was very, very, very nice to me. I’ve put it on TikTok, and I have a lot of people liking the picture. It feels fantastic."
Knowing what we know now, it’s amazing that William DID go to Sheffield.
He must be worried sick about his wife and his dad, yet he showed not a hint of what he’s really feeling throughout the visit.
That takes courage, resilience, stoicism, and an instinctive commitment to duty that all the most popular royals have.
It’s also what makes the predictably self-serving antics of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at this incredibly difficult time for the Royal Family so especially nauseating.
Within hours of Kate’s astonishing, and profoundly moving, video statement on Friday night, Harry and Meghan rushed to issue a statement saying: "We wish health and healing for Kate and the family, and hope they are able to do so privately and in peace."
Has there ever been a more pathetically disingenuous claim from those who have brought nothing but very public carnage to the Royal Family?
This, lest we forget, is the same couple whose mouthpiece Omid Scobie shamefully branded Kate, and Charles, racist for supposedly expressing ‘concern’ over the potential skin colour of their baby son Archie, a disgustingly incendiary charge for which they’ve never produced a shred of evidence.
And who’ve spent the past four years flinging buckets of stinking manure at Kate and William, from Harry telling the world that Kate made Meghan cry in the build-up to his wedding, to his cruel subliminal mockery of the Wales’s marriage in that repellent Netflix documentary: "I think, for so many people in the family – especially obviously the men – there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit the mould as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with."
In other words, William only married Kate because he thought he had to, whereas Harry married for love. What nasty, baseless tosh.
As was the sniping by chief Sussex lickspittle and horrible little weasel Scobie who wrote in his latest book that Kate was a "Stepford-like royal wife" who was happy to just be a "voiceless symbol".
Little wonder that Kate and William declined to share the awful cancer news in advance with this despicably untrustworthy duo.
But it didn’t stop the Sussexes using the media the moment they heard about it to falsely promote themselves as caring, compassionate people.
Hilariously, their preferred media outlet, People magazine, reported yesterday that Harry and Meghan had "privately reached out" to William and Kate.
Another ludicrous claim that begs the obvious question: if it was done "privately", how does People magazine know about it?
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Thankfully, the public now sees through all this narcissistic, attention-seeking, money-grabbing, ‘me, me, me’ Sussex bullsh*t which is why their popularity is tanking to levels only enjoyed by disgraced Prince Andrew.
Meanwhile, as the world sees just how dignified, brave, and dutiful Kate and William have been during this horrendously difficult period of their lives, I confidently expect their popularity levels to continue soaring.
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