William Mountbatten-Windsor

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Person.png Prince William, Duke of Cambridge  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(British Prince)
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BornWilliam Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor
1982-06-21
St Mary's Hospital, London
Alma materUniversity of St Andrews
SpouseCatherine Middleton
Member ofBritish royal family

Prince William Mountbatten-Windsor (born 21 June 1982) is a member of the British royal family.[1] He is the elder son of Prince Charles, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is second in the line of succession to the British throne, after his father.[2]

Prince William was educated at four schools in the United Kingdom and obtained a degree from the University of St Andrews. He spent parts of a gap year in Chile, Belize, and some parts of Africa.[3]

Military service

In December 2006, Prince William completed 44 weeks of training as an officer cadet and was commissioned in the Blues and Royals regiment. In April 2008, he qualified as a pilot by completing pilot training at Royal Air Force College, Cranwell. He then underwent helicopter flying training in order to become a full-time pilot with the RAF Search and Rescue Force in early 2009.[4] His service with the British Armed Forces ended in September 2013.[5][6]

Visit to Middle East

On 1 March 2018, Kensington Palace announced that Prince William will visit Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the Summer.[7] Overseas royal visits are made at the request of the British government. No British royal has ever made an official visit to Israel, whose occupation of the Palestinian territories the UK considers illegal. William's father Prince Charles attended the 2016 funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres in a private capacity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said:

"This is a historic visit, the first of its kind. William will be received here with great affection."[8]

Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Member Dr Hanan Ashrawi released a statement saying:

“On behalf of the PLO Executive Committee and the Palestinian people, we welcome His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge on his scheduled visit to Palestine this Summer.”[9]

Cancel the visit

On 2 April 2018, a petition was created on Change.org calling for the cancellation of Prince William's visit to Israel:

"There has been widespread condemnation of Israel's deadly attacks on Palestinians - the latest being on 30 March 2018, when 16 people were killed and more than 750 wounded by Israeli fire as thousands of Palestinian protesters marched to Gaza’s border with Israel.
"Among the many previous incidents were the 2001 Israeli Nerve Gas Attacks on Palestinian civilian populations in both Gaza and the West Bank. The symptoms reported matched those of tabun, a known anticholinesterase poison belonging to a family of organophosphate nerve agents. There have been many other reports of chemical warfare practised on the Palestinians dating as far back as 1983.
"Because Israel has rejected calls by the UN Secretary-General and the EU's foreign affairs chief for "an independent and transparent investigation" into the latest deadly attack, we demand that the British government show its revulsion and cancel Prince William's visit to Israel this summer.[10]

Family

Prince William married Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey. Hours before the wedding, he was created Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn, and Baron Carrickfergus.[11]

The couple have two children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, and are expecting their third in April 2018. The official residence of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is Kensington Palace, where their household office is also based.

 

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