Prince William had a very telling nickname when he was younger because he used to be very “unruly” and even disrupted a children’s party by throwing sandwiches around once.
The Prince of Wales was known for being very “cheeky” and “noisy” at home and school that even his mother, the late Diana called him “a holy terror” once.
Royal biographer Robert Lacey wrote in his book Battle of Brothers that such were the young prince’s exploits as a child that he was known as Basher Wills or Billy the Basher.
He claimed that William often got “involved in playground fights” with other children.
The writer wrote: “The young prince had picked up his nicknames of ‘Basher Wills’ or ‘Billy the Basher’ when he joined Mrs Jane Mynors’ Nursery School in Notting Hill, not far from Kensington Palace, in September 1985.
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“Noisy, cheeky and defiant of discipline, Wills soon angered his classmates by pushing his way to the front of the dinner queue and getting involved in playground fights. The Prince’s mother, Princess Diana, once even called her son ‘a holy terror’.”
According to Lacey, the Prince of Wales would tell other children: “My Daddy can beat up your Daddy. My Daddy’s the Prince of Wales.”
His parents, the then-Prince Charles and Diana, reportedly did not want to be strict parents with the heir to the throne, however, his nanny, Ruth Wallace was different.
According to the author in 1987, William threw a “tantrum” at a party and started throwing sandwiches and ice cream around the room because he had not been allowed to blow out the candles on the cake.
His nanny made him clean up and then brought him home, the Mail reported.
Lancey wrote: “In the autumn of 1987, she yanked the five-year-old home from a birthday party following a tantrum when he had not been allowed to blow out the candles on the cake and had expressed his displeasure by throwing sandwiches and ice cream around the room.”
Young William’s behaviour was a cause of concern for the late Queen Elizabeth too.
Author Tina Brown wrote in The Palace Papers: “As a toddler, [William] had been a cause of concern to the Queen when he showed signs of being a brat. She complained to her husband that their grandson was ‘out of control’ and needed a stricter nanny. She was not amused that he loved to say, ‘When I am king, I’m going to make a new rule that.”
According to Brown, even Princess Diana described her eldest son as “dashing about bumping into tables and lamps, breaking everything in sight.”
The author claimed when William was four “he had the unattractive habit of yapping at his nanny, Barbara Barnes, ‘No one tells me what to do! When I am king I will have you punished.”
