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Prince William: 'I'd support my child if they were gay' | Prince William: 'I'd support my child if they were gay' |
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Prince William has said he would "fully support" his children if they were gay, but admitted he would "worry" about the added pressures they would face. | Prince William has said he would "fully support" his children if they were gay, but admitted he would "worry" about the added pressures they would face. |
It was something he had thought about since becoming a parent, he said. | It was something he had thought about since becoming a parent, he said. |
"I wish we lived in a world where it's really normal and cool, but particularly for my family, and the position that we are in, that's the bit I am nervous about," he said. | "I wish we lived in a world where it's really normal and cool, but particularly for my family, and the position that we are in, that's the bit I am nervous about," he said. |
The duke was speaking to young people at a LGBT youth charity in London. | The duke was speaking to young people at a LGBT youth charity in London. |
The Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) supports LGBT young people who are at risk of homelessness. | |
'Barriers' | |
The duke said he backed whatever decision his children made, but added: "It does worry me from a parent point of view. | |
"How many barriers you know, hateful words, persecution, all that and discrimination that might come, that's the bit that really troubles me. | "How many barriers you know, hateful words, persecution, all that and discrimination that might come, that's the bit that really troubles me. |
"But that's for all of us to try and help correct and make sure we can put that to the past and not come back to that sort of stuff." | "But that's for all of us to try and help correct and make sure we can put that to the past and not come back to that sort of stuff." |
The duke said this was not the first time he has been asked this hypothetical question about his children. | |
The Queen's cousin, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, and his partner James Coyle were the first royal same-sex couple to get married last year. | |
'Massive difference' | |
Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have three children - five-year-old Prince George, Princess Charlotte, four, and one-year-old Prince Louis. | |
The duke said parents often ask his views on the issue and that because of this, he and the Duchess of Cambridge have "been doing a lot of talking" to make sure their children are "prepared". | |
He also expressed his shock at a recent attack on Melania Geymonat and her partner Chris on a London bus, saying: "I was really appalled". | |
Tim Sigsworth, chief executive of AKT, said the duke's comments would make a "massive difference" and sent "a message that we need to support, and we need to empower LGBT people". | |
He said: "I was personally rejected by my mum, and the idea that the future monarch is saying they would support their children if they came out as LGBT is a message to the whole of society really, a message that we need to support and we need to empower LGBT people |