5 有魅力的王子 威儿的世界.doc

5. Prince Charming Will’s World
On the occasion of his 18th birthday, the world was getting a rare look at the man who was born to be the king of England. The shattered boy who marched bravely behind his mother's coffin1 years ago has emerged as thoughtful young man--a thoroughly modern monarch2.
With a smile disarmingly3 like Diana's and his father's sense of duty, William has the makings of a thoroughly modern monarch. As befits4 a 21st-century prince, he's being introduced to his future subjects through the media. Although he's still very young and no one knows what challenges he'll face, imagery clearly will have to be a top priority. The birthday pictures released tells the story of a young man equally at home or on the rugby5 field or in front of puter. He's a leader, but also one of the boys, and seems fortable in his own skin. It's a very different image from the stiff and formal portraits of Elizabeth and Charles at the same age.
Because he's been sheltered from publicity, William is very much an unknown quantity to most of his future subjects. And he seems to like it that way. At almost every photo opportunity in the past few years, William has appeared at best shy and often deliberately distant. Photographers plained that they would go through many rolls of film just to get a few frames in which William was actually smiling. William is said to have hated the p