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Sunday 15 September 2013

          Prince William: I dream of Africa

Prince William plays soccer during a visit to a child education center in Semonkong, Lesotho, on June 17, 2010. Whether it's been to strengthen political ties or to offer humanitarian aid, British royals have a long history of visiting Africa.
Dreaming of Africa is one way that Prince William escapes from the stresses he faces as the future king of Britain.
"I regularly daydream," The Duke of Cambridge reveals in the documentary "Prince William's Passion: New Hope, New Father."
"Africa is definitely one of the places I go to ... I have hundreds of animals on my iPhone. So if I am ever having quite a stressful day ... you can put a buffalo on in the background or a cricket,"
he says.
This may sound like a small, even trivial, detail but it's a thought that may one day help define the British monarchy. "It takes you back instantly to the (African) bush. And it does completely settle me down."
Prince William will one day be king, and he's acutely aware of the responsibility that comes with that; it weighs heavily on his thoughts. And even before he takes on that mantle, he's grappling with the often unwelcome attentions of the world media.
 Prince Harry, left, and Prince William hold an African rock python during a visit to Mokolodi Education Centre in Gaborone, Botswana, on June 15, 2010.
The youngest son of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Edward, right, is greeted by Goree Island Mayor Augustin Senghore upon his arrival at Goree Island, Senegal, on June 6, 2004.






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