Prince William used to tell his mother that he did not wish to be king and his brother, Prince Harry, cheerfully said that he would step in.
The constitutional implications of such statements may be lessened by the fact that Prince William, now the Duke of Cambridge, was then a child.
The recollection will be aired tomorrow in the second part of Paxman on the Queen’s Children, a documentary for Channel 5. Jeremy Paxman describes a conversation he had with Diana, Princess of Wales, during a private lunch at Kensington Palace.
“We talked about our children and she said William often told her that he didn’t want to be king,” Paxman said in comments reported in The Mail on Sunday. “And then Harry would say,…
