Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis doing mandatory stints in the military if the national service pass would be "good for them," royal experts say
As Marie Claire reported last week, royal children like Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will not be exempt from it if the Conservatives pass a plan to revive national service in the UK following the 7-4 general election. If passed, all 18-year-olds in the UK will be required to participate in at least 1 year of service, including service in the army and volunteering.
After Prime Minister Rishi Snack announced the plan, the Tories told The Telegraph that all children of the British Royal family ・ from the Welsh trio to the children of Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips ・ would not be exempt from this requirement and would need to serve like everyone else. We have confirmed that we will continue to work with our customers to improve the quality of our products and services.
According to the Daily Mail's royal expert Richard Kay, this is not a bad thing: "We can secretly expect George and Louis to perform some form of military service at some stage," he said, according to the Daily Mail. Prince William did. Prince Harry did, and of course, the king did. I think it's a tradition to follow.He added further that such a service would be good for them ".
On the podcast "Palace Confidential," Charlotte Griffiths, a royal expert, said the Royal family would see such a service as a "rite of passage" for George, Charlotte and Louis. "It would be a really good way to introduce the royal family to the working royal life," she said. "This whole thing is a little hypothetical date," she continued, George will obviously be the first of the 3 children of the Prince and Princess of Wales to be 18 years old, and in 2031 he will be in line (Charlotte will be 1 year after 2032-5, and then Louis will be in 2035-4).Griffith added that "the Royal family is down to earth and has a long-standing policy of doing as the general population does.""
She made history as the first lady of the Royal Family to become a full-time member of the Armed services when she joined up in World War II Then took a page from Princess Elizabeth and persuaded her reluctant father King George VI to join the army and eventually signed the Auxiliary Territorial Service where she became a car mechanic . (Seriously - what a woman.Since then, Prince Charles served in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1976, both of his sons also served, and both Prince William and Prince Harry attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. William continued to serve with the Blues and Royals before working as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, while Harry also served with the Blues and Royals and was deployed to Afghanistan 2 times.
"The young Royals actually want to do it," Griffith said. "I would like to see them. I'd love to see Princess Charlotte volunteer for military service and NHS wards when she was 18. It would be great.
Under Sunak's plan, 18-year-olds are expected to choose between military service and volunteering, including supporting local fire, police and ambulance services, according to the Daily Mail, "the latest form of compulsory state service in the UK." It was abolished in 1960 and required all physically fit male British citizens aged 18 to 26 to serve in the army.
The first members of the Royal Family who potentially participated in the resurrected National service are in fact one of Queen Elizabeth's grandchildren, not her great-grandchildren. He is now 16 years old and in 2025 he will be 12 years old and 18 years old.
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