Prince William expressed his condolences after studying his former nanny’s stepson, Ed Pettifer, was one of many victims within the New Orleans assault on New 12 months’s Day.
“Catherine and I’ve been shocked and saddened by the tragic demise of Ed Pettfer,” William, 42, wrote in a Saturday, January 4, Instagram Story assertion, additionally mentioning spouse Princess Kate Middleton. “Our ideas and prayers stay with the Pettifer household and all these harmless individuals who have been tragically impacted by this horrific assault.”
William signed the observe with a “W,” his private designation primarily based on his first preliminary.
A 42-year-old Texas man drove a rented truck by way of a crowd on New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Avenue on Wednesday, January 1. Pettifer, who was 31, was one in all no less than 14 fatalities. The motive force was shot and killed throughout a shootout with police.
“The complete household is devastated on the tragic information of Ed‘s demise in New Orleans. He was an exquisite son, brother, grandson, nephew and a pal to so many,” a Saturday assertion from Pettifer’s household learn, shared with London’s Metropolitan Police. “We are going to all miss him terribly.”
The assertion continued, “Our ideas are with the opposite households who’ve misplaced their members of the family as a consequence of this horrible assault. We request that we will grieve the lack of Ed as a household in non-public. Thanks.”
Pettifer was the stepson of Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who beforehand labored as a nanny for William and his brother, Prince Harry, after they had been kids. (William and Harry, 40, are the sons of exes King Charles III and the late Princess Diana.)
“[She was] our favourite nanny, to be correct, although Tiggy couldn’t stand being known as that,” Harry recalled in his Spare memoir. “She’d chunk the top off anybody who tried. ‘I’m not the nanny, I’m your pal!’ Mummy, sadly, didn’t see it that manner. Mummy noticed Tiggy not as a nanny, however as a rival. It’s widespread information that Mummy suspected Tiggy was being groomed as her future substitute. (Did Mummy see Tiggy as her Spare?)”
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As famous within the passage, Harry additionally named his 2023 memoir after the notion that he was brother William’s “spare” within the line of succession. William is the direct inheritor to father Charles, 75, because the regent of England. Harry instantly adopted till William and spouse Kate, 42, welcomed their three kids: Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6.
Whereas Harry is now the fifth in line for the British throne, he stepped down from his place as a senior working royal in 2020. Harry and his spouse Meghan Markle now dwell in Montecito, California with their two kids, Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3. Harry has not but publicly addressed Pettifer’s demise.
