Second day in Jordan start with the visit at the Jeresh Archaelogical site
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But that looks like a room a young man would decorate himself (unfortunately in this case).
William seems to have made a real connection with the Crown Prince, much more so than he did with the young Swedish/Norwegian/Danish royals when he met them. In my opinion, this is the kind of royal-to-royal relationship that actually has relevance given the role the Crown Prince will likely play in policy making in his country. Whether William is friends with Victoria of Sweden affects nothing and no one.
Pics from day 2. Prince William visits the Jeresh Archaelogical site in Jordan with Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan during his historic visit to the Middle East
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Whether William has any connection is irrelevant as he will have no power over British policy in the future. The monarch of the UK does what they are told by the government not the other way round.
I now work for the same hotel chain that owns the King David (the hotel which Prince William will stay in) but in one of their Tel aviv hotels. as I read through an article explaining what the duke itinerary is going to be for his stay, I was suddenly very happy to have this Tuesday and Wednesday off from work, as I live in a bordering city to Jaffa, traffic into Tel-Aviv and Jaffa is probably going to be even worse than usual during the next two days. I think i’ll stay at home and do some house cleaning.
It’s not often that we have royalty in Israel because we’re not a monarchy, and the visit is very historic as you know, so we’re all very excited.
He’s so well-liked, it’s unbelievable. He’s staying here for three nights, which is quite a long time, and we feel very honoured that the whole time he’s in the region he’s staying with us.
The media attention has been huge, just like when Trump came in May, but for the Prince we haven’t needed to bring in extra staff because it’s a different operation – the Prince’s delegation is taking only around 50 rooms, whereas Trump’s took 1,100 rooms, with all 230 rooms at the King David plus rooms in another 19 hotels.
We’re all very excited.
We have had a lot of experience hosting important people – such as Presidents Bush, Obama and Putin, Angela Merkel, Tony Blair, King Hussein, and of course Prince Charles who stayed twice, but this is definitely up there, it’s definitely unique. I mean, who doesn’t know Prince William?
But that looks like a room a young man would decorate himself (unfortunately in this case).
William seems to have made a real connection with the Crown Prince, much more so than he did with the young Swedish/Norwegian/Danish royals when he met them. In my opinion, this is the kind of royal-to-royal relationship that actually has relevance given the role the Crown Prince will likely play in policy making in his country. Whether William is friends with Victoria of Sweden affects nothing and no one.
Completely different contexts. The Norwegian and the Danish younger royals are much older than William (with teenage kids), I would be surprised if there was a real connection.
And by the same reasoning that William is friends with the Crown Prince of Jordan will affect nothing and no one as he has just as much relevance on government policy as Victoria, if indeed not less as the 2nd in line not the direct heir.
Do you think this is news to me? I know William will have no formal power, which is why those visits to other European royals are so pointless, despite the distant familial connections.
If William can build a relationship with a royal who will actually, as things stand, wield actual executive power in a region where the UK has significant interests, then that potentially has a real tangible benefit to the British people. Not some airy-fairly, imagined benefit whereby William learns "how to be a royal" from some Scandinavian prince the British people have never heard of.
If the taxpayer is expected to cover the cost of these trips, then at a minimum have them be trips with at least the potential for some positive outcome.
The point here is not William's power over decision making in the UK, it is the Crown Prince's power over the future decisions of his country. William's ability to build a relationship with a decision maker is relevant to the British government and people; Victoria of Sweden is not a decision maker. William's relationship with her, or the evident lack thereof, is irrelevant.
I wonder if he will go see his great grandmother's grave while there? Charles did when he was there in 2016.
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What you state makes sense, PetticoatLane, and I've always enjoyed your posts and depths of knowledge.
What strikes me the most about this trip that William is taking right now has a five letter word attached to it that I think makes it a totally unique and meaningful endeavor. William is visiting an area of our world that has been a hot bed of tension and discord for centuries and its political struggles and conflicts fill the history books and continue to this day. Now we have a British heir to the throne making his rounds to the area and its *big* news. He is being greeted warmly at all stages of his visit and that five letter word comes to my mind with each report I read on this trip.
That five letter word? PEACE.
Prince William has made a deeply moving visit to Jerusalem's holocaust museum on his first full day of engagements in Israel.
The prince, the first British royal to undertake an official tour to the Jewish state in its 70 year history, was at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum where met an 80-year-old who was saved from the gas chambers through the Kindertransport, and participated in a wreath-laying ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance.
Yad Vashem, whose Hebrew name literally means a monument and a name, is dedicated to preserving the memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and of the many Gentiles who aided them.
The memorial has recognised the Duke of Cambridge’s great-grandmother, Princess Alice, as part of the Righteous Among the Nations for her role in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Yad Vashem said Princess Alice “hid three members of the Cohen family – Rachel, Tilda and Michelle – in her palace in Athens during the Nazi occupation of Greece.”
Thanks to Princess Alice, the family survived and today lives in France. The Princess died in 1969, and in 1988, her remains were brought to Jerusalem. Back in 1994, the Duke of Edinburgh planted a tree at Yad Vashem in honour of his mother.
After his visit, the Duke of Cambridge met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara. During the meeting, the Duke got to meet the descendants of the family Princess Alice saved.
Today William met with the descendants of the Cohen family. William's paternal great-grandmother Princess Alice hid three members of the family during WWII. Earning her the honor of being named one of the Righteous Among Nations.
Read more: Prince William prepares to head into Palestine | Daily Mail OnlineThe Duke of Cambridge will meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas a day after Israel's president urged him to take a 'message of peace' to the Arab leader.
William will sit down for talks with Mr Abbas in Ramallah, becoming the first member of the royal family to visit the Palestinian Occupied Territories at the request of the Government.
After meeting Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's president Reuven Rivlin yesterday, William will have the opportunity to get to know the Palestinian leader during discussions in his offices.
President Rivlin asked William to encourage the Palestinian Authority President to take the 'first step' with Israel to end the 'tragedy' between them, which has existed for more than a century.