In 2011, the Daily Mail carried a long story about how the Queen’s cousin Prince William of Gloucester, who died in a plane crash aged 30, had been Prince Charles’s boyhood idol. (Our own Prince William, it claimed, was named after him.) In passing, it tactfully informed us that William’s ex-girlfriend Zsuzsi Starkloff ‘no longer wishes to be reminded of her lost love’.
James Walton
Will he was
The claim of The Other Prince William that 'you can have the woman or you can have the throne but you can't have both' might have been stronger if Prince William of Gloucester ever had any chance of the throne

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