Prince William recalls experience with air ambulance

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Prince William spoke candidly about the mental impact the job had on him as he talked with emergency respondents about the pressure they face. The Duke of Cambridge worked as an air ambulance between 2015 and 2016, and he became a patron of the London Air Ambulance Charity in 2020. Speaking to first responders Chloe and Will, the royal admitted the job had had its toll on him at times, especially when faced with rescuing families with children.

He said: “In the air ambulance, any job I went to with children, that really affected me.

“Much more than I think if I hadn’t had children, actually.

“For me, it was the relation of my personal life with the family or the incident I was at. I found that very difficult.

“There were a number of times where I would take myself away because I was getting too involved in it. And feeling it.”

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Prince William became an air ambulance pilot after leaving the RAF shortly after the birth of his eldest son, Prince George, in 2013.

While in service, he and wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, also welcomed their second child, Princess Charlotte.

At the height of the pandemic, the Duke of Cambridge revealed he had been working as a volunteer for the charity Shout! to support Britons contacting the helpline to receive mental health support.

Speaking during National Volunteers’ Week to Shout volunteers, the Duke said: “I’m going to share a little secret with you guys.

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“I’m actually on the platform volunteering.”

The Duke of Cambridge has been a long-standing advocate for mental health and has been promoting several causes in support of mental health charities over the years.

Prince William and Kate launched the Heads Together initiative in 2017 with the help of Prince Harry as one of the leading projects of their foundation.

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In 2020, The Royal Foundation distributed £1.8million in grants to 10 of the leading mental health and frontline support charities.

The grants ensured emergency responders could access individual grief trauma counselling from Hospice UK.

The foundation also said the grant would also ensure more than 250,000 emergency responders could access peer-to-peer support from the Mind mental health charity and their Blue Light initiative.

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