Crouching over a filth-flecked floor in yellow gloves with his red head almost in a toilet bowl, Prince William looks more like a hard-pressed commoner than a future King.
And insiders tell us this image of the young royal on his knees scrubbing a loo is set to haunt him when he takes the throne from his cancer-stricken father King Charles.
William’s past has been thrust back into the spotlight after this photo showing him scrubbing a toilet on his hands and knees has resurfaced as he prepares to be crowned.
The now bald 43-year-old royal, who lives with his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, 44, and their three children Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, seven, in an eight-bedroom residence at Windsor, once led a far more rugged existence.