Prince William revealed that he and his
brother would rock out to Tina Turner‘The Best‘ on back-to-school drives, with
Princess Diana taking the main stage.
William, the future king, normalized the
monarchy when he shared sweet memories of his mom, trying to relieve the boy’s
level of anxiety on their return to boarding school.
“It felt like a real family moment. And
my mother, she’d be driving along, singing at the top of her voice,” he said. Keep
reading to learn more about the future king’s favorite tunes and his favorite
“tonic for a Monday morning.”
In
December 2021, Prince William took the audience of Apple’s Time to Walk series
on a journey through Sandringham Estate, one of the royal residences of his
father, King Charles.
Sharing
memories while he walked through the grounds, William then spoke of his
favorite songs that trigger fond moments from his childhood to his present.
One
of those special childhood memories is of his mother, Princess Diana, and
the song she played for him and Prince Harry to ease their back-to-school
jitters.
That
song is the late Tina Turner’s The Best, a song he still enjoys to keep
his mother’s memory alive.
“When
I was younger, Harry and I, we were at boarding school. My mother used to play
all sorts of songs to kind of while away the anxiety of going back to school,”
Prince William said.
“And
one of the songs I massively remember and has stuck with me all this time, and
I still, to this day, still quite enjoy secretly, is Tina Turner’s ‘The Best’
because sitting in the backseat, singing away, it felt like a real family
moment.”
And
Princess Diana, heading the chorus, would sing along.
“And
my mother, she’d be driving along, singing at the top of her voice. And we’d
even get the policeman in the car, he’d be occasionally singing along, as
well,” William said.
The
future king added: “You’d be singing and listening to the music right the way
out into the gates of school, when they dropped you off. And, and that’s when
reality kind of sunk in that you really were going back to school because
before that, you’re lost in songs. You’ll want to play it again just to keep
that family moment going.”
“When
I listen to it now, it takes me back to those car rides and brings back lots of
memories of my mother.”
Children’s
choice
Taking
those precious memories and applying it to his own parenting style, William
shares that he now creates special music moments with his own children, Prince
George, 10, eight-year-old Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, who turns six
on April 23.
“Most
mornings there’s a massive fight between Charlotte and George as to what song
is played in the morning. And I have to, now, basically prioritize that one day
someone does this one, and another day it’s someone else’s turn,” said the
royal. “So George gets his go, then Charlotte gets her go. Such is the clamor
for the music.”
The
Prince added that one of the songs his children were loving at the time was
Shakira’s ‘Waka Waka‘.
‘Best
tonic for a Monday morning’
For
his third song, William selected AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck‘, saying that it’s a
great song to get you moving.
He
shared: “There’s nothing better than, on a Monday morning, when you’re a bit
bleary-eyed after the weekend and trying to get yourself back into the grind of
the week, listening to AC/DC, ‘Thunderstruck.’”
William
continued: “I have to say the first time I put it on, and I’ve heard it a
million times now, I was kind of like, ‘Well, this is quite heavy for a Monday
morning.’ But now, when I listen to it, it’s the best tonic for a Monday morning.”
“It
absolutely wakes you up, puts your week in the best mood possible, and you feel
like you can take on anything and anyone.
“I’d imagine you’re going to walk quite fast listening to it, maybe with a skip in your step, with the head-banging. It’s a difficult song not to dance to or to nod along to.”
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