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Prince William feels there is no chance of him becoming king ahead of his father, Prince Charles, a report said, following a rash of polls in Britain showing subjects favoring such a move. The Sunday Telegraph newspaper quoted a senior royal aide as saying William, second-in-line to the throne, had no desire to leapfrog the Prince of Wales to become king after Queen Elizabeth II's reign. "There is no question in Prince William's mind that the Prince of Wales will be the next monarch," the aide said. "Prince William is aware of the speculation, but he is very thick-skinned. He knows his place in the royal family, and he considers himself to be very low down the food chain. He has no desire to climb the ladder of kingship before his time," the aide said. "He is very close to his father and incredibly supportive of him and his work as the Prince of Wales. "Both of them will let nature take its course. There is no suggestion from anywhere within the institution that a generation will be skipped." Recent polls suggested that most Britons wanted William and his new fiancee, Kate Middleton, to be their next king and queen, leapfrogging Charles and his wife Camilla to the throne. William is a Royal Air Force search-and-rescue pilot, based at RAF Valley on the island of Anglesey, northwest Wales. William "is not yet a full-time member of the royal family - first and foremost he is an RAF officer - and he will continue in his role at RAF Valley until at least 2013," the royal aide told The Sunday Telegraph. Lord Anthony Lester, a constitutional expert, said, "The mechanism of succession is not based on a popularity contest, so all the polls in the world about who should be the next monarch are irrelevant." AFP |
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