Every day in the UK, around 20 people die by suicide.
Behind every number is a person, a family and people who love them.
If you’re worried about someone, reach out.
Ask how they’re really doing. Listen. Let them know they’re not alone.
One conversation can change everything.
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#WorldMentalHealthDay
I never realized how many partners work with the Earthshot prize. Then again, who would not want to work with Prince William. So many people involved and so many businesses that want to be part of everything Earthshot is doing.
Some of the big names are Amazon, Walmart, National Geographic, Uber. When you have so much trust in what people are accomplishing, it makes it so much easier to want to open your wallet and have your name and companies name attached.
Well, done to Prince William and team! Information from the Earthshot website.
It was a pleasure to welcome other Three Peaks Challenge participants and their families to Windsor Castle. Behind every summit was a personal story of resilience, determination and hope. Listening to their experiences of the challenge and their reasons for taking it on was a powerful reminder that recovery is rarely a journey we make alone, and of the importance of the people who walk alongside us along the way.
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The Character of Catherine, Princess of Wales
The Princess of Wales has had her share of difficult moments in her life, but she has never let victimhood define her.
At 14, Catherine was unhappy at Downe House School. Reports of bullying and a difficult environment surrounded her time there, and her parents moved her to Marlborough College. She flourished there, becoming involved in sport, doing well academically and earning her Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award.
But you rarely hear Catherine talk about that period of her life as something that defines her. She moved on.
Then came the press attention that accompanied her relationship with William.
It is easy to forget how young Catherine was. She was in her early twenties and was not a celebrity or a public figure accustomed to media attention. She was a private young woman whose relationship with the future King suddenly put her under intense scrutiny.
Photographers followed her, waited for her and pursued photographs of her private life. In 2007, William publicly asked the media to respect her privacy.
Catherine wanted that privacy. She wasn’t seeking publicity while complaining about the intrusion. She wasn’t staging photographs or turning her relationship into a media exercise. She simply wanted to live her life without being followed because of who she was dating.
Then she and William broke up.
Catherine was 25.
When journalist Camilla Tominey asked her about the relationship, Catherine replied:
“Listen, I haven’t ever commented about this relationship before. So, I don’t think I’m going to start now.”
She didn’t give interviews about the breakup. She didn’t publicly attack William or his family.
She kept the matter private.
In January 2024, Catherine underwent major abdominal surgery. She was later diagnosed with cancer and began preventative chemotherapy.
When she was forced to speak publicly about her diagnosis, she didn’t make herself the victim. She thanked people for their support and spoke about what the diagnosis meant for her family.
As she returned to public life, she continued supporting the cancer community, including through her work with the Royal Marsden, where she received treatment. She met patients, families and medical staff and used her position to draw attention to people facing cancer themselves.
Across these circumstances, Catherine has maintained a clear boundary between what belongs to the public and what belongs to her.
She has shown a preference for privacy over spectacle, moving forward over settling scores, and doing the job in front of her rather than continually revisiting what happened before.
That is particularly relevant to the role she is preparing to take on.
Living in the public eye requires being able to withstand scrutiny without becoming consumed by it. It requires knowing when to speak and when silence is wiser. It requires understanding that private pain doesn’t always need a public audience.
And for Catherine, family has remained at the centre of her life.
William may be the man Catherine eventually married.
The Crown may be the institution she will one day serve as Queen.
But neither created the woman she became.
The qualities were already there: the ability to move forward, the discretion, the resilience, the self-control and the willingness to begin again.
Most importantly, she has never allowed difficult chapters to become the whole story.
The title came later. The character came first.
Photo: The Royal Marsden
The Duchess of Edinburgh met President Hakainde Hichilema & First Lady Mutinta Hichilema. Her Royal Highness is a far better ambassador for our nation than the former Spare and Mare.
The Prince of Wales was welcomed in Princetown near Dartmoor Prison today, unveiling a £250,000 regeneration fund for the rural community. This fund will support local social, economic, and environmental projects. #princewilliam#royalfamily#royal
The Prince of Wales, who is known as the Duke of Cornwall whilst in Cornwall, during a visit to Princetown in Dartmoor to launch the new Princetown Community Fund. The new fund will make at least £250,000 available to support locally led projects.
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