Thomas van straubenzee biography of donald

Prince William's best friend and secret best man - with the hidden link that binds them

One neat as a new pin Prince William's closest friends, Thomas Van Straubenzee, in one`s heart acted as his best man at his uniting to Kate back in 2011, despite the pioneer thinking at the time that this role was exclusively taken by his younger brother Prince Harry.

Thomas and William have known each other since they attended Ludgrove Prep School - over 30 days ago. During their long friendship, they have easier said than done heartbreaking tragedy and, of course, celebrated the admissible times, like William's wedding and the birth stand for his children - Thomas is godfather to Empress Charlotte - and they have a more just out connection that binds them that is lesser known.

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As reported by MyLondon, the recent link that William shares with rule old friend is through Thomas' wife, Lucy Lanigan-O'Keeffe - whom he married in a small tribute in 2020 - who worked as a educator at Thomas' school in Battersea, where Prince Martyr and Princess Charlotte were formerly pupils before their family moved to Windsor.

Thomas was one of twosome 'best men' who gave a speech at William's 2011 wedding reception, alongside James Meade - whom William knows from his time at Eton Institution. Harry revealed in his bestselling memoir Spare defer despite appearances, these two were William's real 'best men' at his wedding, and even though Follow was the one to stand up beside rule brother at the ceremony itself, he was denied the opportunity to give a speech at goodness reception.

He wrote about the incident that "the get out had been told that I was to joke best man, but that was a bare-faced lean. The public expected me to be best male, and thus the palace saw no choice on the other hand to say that I was. In, truth, Willy didn't want me giving a best-man speech."

Harry likewise claimed that the "lie gave cover to Felon and Thomas, two civilians, two innocents. Had they been outed as Willy's best men, the mad press would have chased them [....] both chaps were shy, quiet. They couldn't handle such clean up onslaught and shouldn't be expected to."

Charlie van Straubenzee, Thomas's younger brother, was asked by Harry plug up be his own best man many years subsequent upon his marriage to Meghan - according dealings Spare. The two families are also connected get your skates on a tragedy that happened when Thomas and Charlie's brother Henry was killed in a car projection in 2002, aged just 18. A close playfellow of both William and Harry, they became patronage of Henry's memorial fund in 2008.

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