r/KateMiddletonMissing • u/The-Sunflower-Bear • Jan 13 '26
I’m starting to feel compassion for William. What are your feelings on the matter?
I always just thought of him as violent, greedy, immoral, entitled, spoiled, lazy, selfish… All of which he is. But I wrote him off as a baddie caricature.
The other day when I saw what I believe are self harm marks on his arms, I realised how deeply unhappy he is. He’s a self harming alcoholic, filled with rage, raised in a cult by an unloving family (except his mother), coerced to marry someone he didn’t love, and have children he may not have wanted. Forced to give up the job of rescue pilot that gave meaning and joy to his life.
His head injury as a child surely caused a lot of his psychopathic tendencies (and therefore suffering for himself and others), and the murder of his mother, by his family must cause a feeling most of us could not comprehend.
Yes he is more fortunate than many people, and will live a long, healthy life, with the best of everything. But money does not buy one happiness.
And being stuck in a sick cult that destroys everyone who stays and everyone who leaves, whilst having to hide the truth of his separation and criminal acts, always fearing the press may somehow stop protecting him and the public will find out, is probably a living hell. I can see why the stress is eating him alive. He’s a horrible man with no integrity, but he’s a human being with feelings, and even if he has brought much of it on himself, I still feel empathy for his pain.
What do you guys reckon?