PRINCE WILLAM FANCIES A BIT OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL

With such decorum and public composure, it’s hard to imagine members of the British royal family listening to hype music. And if such an imagination can be conjured, they’re surely listening to some spritely orchestral composition, right?

Wrong. Prince William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, listens to rock music – specifically AC/DC – to get himself ready for his royal duties, as he explains in a new episode of Apple’s TimeTo Walk podcast. “There’s nothing better than, on a Monday morning, when you’re a bit bleary-eyed after the weekend and trying to get yourself back into the grind of the week, listening to AC/DC, ‘Thunderstruck’,” the Duke of Cambridge said on a stroll round the Queen’s Sandringham estate.

“I have to say the first time I put it on – and I’ve heard it a million times now – I was kind of, like, ‘Well, this is quite heavy for a Monday morning. But now, when I listen to it, it’s the best tonic for a Monday morning. It absolutely wakes you up, puts your week in the best mood possible, and you feel like you can take on anything and anyone. I’d imagine you’re going to walk quite fast listening to it, maybe with a skip in your step, with the headbanging. It’s a difficult song not to dance to or to nod along to.”