Fairytale Love Story That Ended In Tragedy | The Other Prince William | Real Royalty With Foxy Games

Prince William of Gloucester was the Queen's cousin he was a pageboy at her wedding in 1947 and at the time fourth in line to the British throne but by the 1960s William had decided to rebel against royal protocol to enjoy a glamorous lifestyle he was the playboy Prince whose pursuit of the good life made him the idol of a young prince Charles [Music] you can see why Prince Charles would have been looking for a role model here was somebody he could look up to who was cool but everything was to change for William in 1968 when he met Susie Starkloff a glamorous divorcee model and former air hostess from Hungary the couple fell deeply in love but within Buckingham Palace their relationship was frowned upon and some of the royal family were determined that the romance would not lead to marriage this sent the fear of God into the royal family and the Quartus they saw a second mrs. Simpson they could see history repeating itself within a quarter of a century where all the difficulties which were caused by the abdication were going to be repeated all over again I felt that as a member of the royal family I was somehow expected to behave in a particular way how would you like to be treated just completely naturally there isn't a day that I don't think about William another day this is the untold story of a forbidden royal romance a love affair which caused panic in the royal family but it was an affair that was destined to end in tragedy [Music] [Music] today 79 year old judy Starkloff lives in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado a long way from England and Buckingham Palace [Music] nearly half a century ago she had a passionate love affair with the senior member of the British royal family which would change her life forever she's never spoken about the affair on camera until now [Music] a story that you're about to hear is a true fairy tale long ago and far away between Prince William and Juji a British prince and a Hungarian girl in Tokyo Japan 47 years ago it's a beautiful story and I am the juji in the mid-1960s Beauty Starkloff was living in Tokyo Japan a single mother and separated from a second husband an American airline pilot to earn a living the former air hostess began working as a model at Western Beauty much in demand in the Japanese capital I had several jobs I modeled for an agency a Japanese girl and myself we were the face of the new face of ramalon in Japan I was very very busy my daughter was with me she was a young teenager I had a lot of new friends and very interesting people I met Sean Connery was one of the people in Japan making a movie and had dinner a couple of times a lot of people said of course you are going back to the US Japan is no place for a woman alone it's a man's world no woman decides to stay there and the first thought in my mind who I guess I have no competition soon the glamorous single mother would have an unexpected encounter with the British Prince that would turn both their lives upside down born in 1941 William Windsor was the son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester the nephew of King George the sixth and by his first birthday fourth in line to the British throne William was the grandson of a king george v and he was the nephew of two more kings george till six and Edward the eighth but in a sense he was very different from other royal princes he was really the Royal Family's forgotten star a dazzling young man with a great future promise highly intelligent extremely robust adventurous and sexy he was one of those golden individuals who somehow seemed to have picked the best attributes of both parents his mother lady alice want to give Douglas Scott she was by the standards of the day slightly older than usual when she got married in her 30s but she had a couple of miscarriages so by the time William was born she was 40 days of her 41st birthday in fact so he was really an adored son they'd almost given up hope of having a child in accordance with family tradition in 1958 William was sent to Eton the self-possessed young prince made an immediate impact on his history tutor Giles sent Auburn he was fiercely independent he really fought against being too much dragged into the Royal life that he was really probably allergic to being pushed around he did women I think he was more suspicious in a way of younger women I mean I think if you in his position you know you're very handsome your royal I think quite a lot of younger women rather threw themselves at him and I mean he was cold intelligent enough to see through that one's way and he just didn't like it and I think he just felt safer with mature women William grew up in the Royal spotlight but yearned for adventure a life beyond his duties after graduating from Cambridge he turned his back on the traditional royal career in the military instead he set his sights on a civilian job in the Diplomatic Service [Music] he laid out his thoughts in this rare television interview why did you choose to work in the phone office rather than anything else I don't know I think it had always been my ambition to try and get into the Foreign Office after having gone to Cambridge and I think there's more question having a goal with anything else did you aim I plan on a different career I think career was planned for me to join the army and having decided that I didn't want to go into the services and having not had to do national service I just pursued my aim to try and get in the photo I had the eerie feeling he's going to step off the screen and step out of the picture and continue talking to me it's amazing it seems like no time has passed it all just happened there isn't a day that I don't think about William not a day williams great passion was aviation and he was the youngest royal to gain a pilot's license a modern man in tune with the glamour of the 1960s his life also echoed that of his uncle King Edward the eighth the definite similarities between William and his uncle Edward they both needed fear and danger I think in a way it was an antidote to the the pressure zones and the difficulties which they faced as royal princes because he was a modern man so was his uncle he was also a very modern man and in some ways ahead of his time he was one of the first World pilots he loved flying he loved fast cars he loved everything that was fast and of course to some extent he liked fast women he hated as I think most members of the royal family do too much attention from the press and of course in an aeroplane that was the one place where people couldn't get at him I think that was one of the things that made him enjoy travelling in the most remote places that all that sort of dropped away from him and he felt thoroughly relaxed [Music] in September 1968 William took up a position with the British Embassy in Japan but instead of flying first class in the manner of a senior royal he spent 16 grueling days flying himself through storms to arrive at his new post on time waiting for him on the ground was his colleague Shigeru katana one day open the newspaper biases about this diplomat who flew all the way from London in his own private frame instantly he was famous and and very popular amongst girls and they all care for autograph and it was just you know created a sensation waiting you know like a movie star like a he found himself in a different culture a culture which allowed him a freedom to seep in to the landscape it was allowing him to forget that he was a royal prince with royal responsibilities that was the joy to him the British Prince with the movie star looks made an instant impact on the party set among Tokyo's expat community and Western elite that included the equally glamorous [ __ ] Starkloff who soon came up with a plan to capture the attention of the young royal [Music] I talked to my friend she was giving a masquerade ball I said it would be fun to invite Prince William we had an idea that write a handwritten invitation on one of her printed invitation cards and I came up with the thought that dear Prince Charming we heard a party's not a party without you and besides that I'm missing a slipper and I signed it Cinderella I was dressed as a Indian princess and he dressed as The Lone Ranger with a black cape and a mask it was really fun he was obviously very good-looking he was tall he was more like the movie James Bond and the Sean Connery that I knew he came over to our table he was sitting with other people at the other end of the restaurant and he said may I borrow Cinderella for a dance and we danced and that's when the relationship truly began she was beautiful she was older she was worldly wise and she was cheeky with it and she casts herself in the role of Cinderella and told him that she had lost her glass slipper well there's an invitation if ever there was one shortly after arriving in Japan Prince William had begun a passionate relationship with Hungarian divorcee Judy Starkloff far from home and the attentions of the royal family their affair blossomed faster than either of them had expected I certainly was not looking for love or a husband I was looking for good friendship more than anything and companionship and when it turned into love it was a big surprise it certainly wasn't planned I think it was a big surprise to both of us [Music] you can see in the way he looks after her helping her into airplane the ways they look at each other you could see the intervenors they're going to be inseparable she was beautiful and he was variants on and young and bashing so I thought they're perfect they're perfect couple [Music] for William in Tokyo he was away from the prying eyes of his close circle and the British press and no wonder he found some day like Zhu Jie deeply exciting I am a little bit blushing at this but I have to share about two three months into the relationship William said I have to tell you something I never thought ever that love can be this beautiful I kept misty I just thinking about that that's a beautiful compliment Prince William and Judy rented a small house by the Pacific Ocean it was their private love nest a safe haven where they could enjoy each other's company and the only photographers were themselves I love this picture this is a picture William cooking breakfast which he did almost every day and he was very very unspoiled which was a pleasure for everyone who knew him if I cooked he did the dishes if he cooked I did the dishes I was never formal with him and I really believed that made William very comfortable that I didn't treat him like he is something different or he was special because he was special not because he was born into it he exposed me to things I would have been probably too way too afraid to do I was very happy that William wanted me to share his hobbies that showed me more of what he had in mind for the future [Music] but news of Prince William and Judy's affair soon got back to England and it wasn't long before the royal family came calling [Music] in September 1969 William's cousin Princess Margaret and her husband Lord Snowdon arrived in Tokyo for British week but giving a boost to angle of Japanese trade relations wasn't the only thing on Margaret's agenda the first time I saw Princess Margaret she came into a theater where she was of course guest of honor and we all stood up and turned back towards the back of the theater and somebody pointed me out to her I saw that the somebody who was walking in with her and she looked all surprised she and William talked quite a bit I was very curious of what she would say I didn't ask William all he volunteered after the long conversation he had with her was that she said that you are very nice and very interesting and she doesn't blame me for falling in love with princess margaret was sent by backing a palace and by her sister the Queen to Tokyo apparently to attend a business conference but actually it's my belief that her real purpose was sent there to scupper Williams relationship with zeusie I think it would be kindest to ascribe Princess Margaret only the highest possible motives by encouraging Prince William to look elsewhere for a wife but I think that she was a human being and a frail one at that and I think that her personal experience came a great deal into it the painful issue of inappropriate royal relationships was something Princess Margaret knew all about from her own bitter experience Margaret had in 1953 the coronation yeah fallen deeply in love with Group Captain Peter Townsend who at one level was terribly suitable because he was her father's a query but at another level was absolutely unacceptable because he was 16 years older and divorced with two children so she decided to renounce him for the sake of duty [Music] on the one hand she might have been thinking about what she'd given up and she might have felt enormous sympathy for this couple who are in the same position as her she might have I think far more likely she was thinking well I wasn't allowed to do this it's going to be impossible the sooner they realize it's impossible the better or there's going to be a lot of heartache and I tend to go with it with the second point of view after she got back to London she wrote to Prince William saying how good it was to see him but with regard to this particular issue to wait and see how things worked out not to take any rash decisions but to decide and to know what he wanted to do for sure as a pageboy at the 1947 wedding of his cousin Elizabeth William had carried the Train of her dress down the aisle of Westminster Abbey but it was her coronation six years later that bound his fate to that of the new queen thanks to a centuries-old royal decree the royal marriages act of 1772 was introduced by George the third who wanted to decide who his children could marry so because of that for those who were in succession to the throne had to get permission of the sovereign or else if the sovereign didn't approve of their marriage their marriage could be declared null and void try to get you married almost every week sort of strange it worried me I'm supposed to start with and I think one acquires a very hard skin and most of the time the reports are so inaccurate anyway I really worry about it here and there it occurred to me that the man I love is a royal prince that's the weight on his shoulders and my relationship with William had nothing to do with his title or me wanting to be princess that was not what it was about and William knew that I remember him writing letters and asked me to take pictures of him why he's writing because I was sitting reading a book and I looked up and I said William you look so stressed and you look unhappy and he said take a picture of it by 1970 Prince William had decided to put his Bachelor life behind him and to marry Yugi but their relationship was about to be put to the test when his father that you could Gloucester suffered a stroke William was recalled to England no longer would he be able to keep the royal family at arm's length from his private life you have to picture prince william at this period the powers-that-be wanted to reel him in they wanted him back under their thumb and he wasn't ready to accept these responsibilities he wanted his freedom he wanted his career and he wanted zeusie traveling alone juji Starkloff landed in England in July 1970 to be reunited with Prince William but his family's country estate [Music] she now faced the daunting prospect of finding her place among the British royal family my visit to England was really quite very interesting I remember I had this book that William gave me about politics and life in England he wanted me to know a little bit more than I did which was not much to begin with his first pictures were in barn wall manor Williams country home it was a beautiful place and we took photographs everywhere this is William's father he was already ailing I believe he's with his nurse there with his father the Duke of Gloucester in failing health the question of Williams future now became a matter of growing urgency [Music] William bringing zeusie to England was a huge gamble but it was one he was prepared to take because I think that he was anxious to see whether she could slot in to his future here in Britain but it was never going to happen because the royal family didn't want it he hears and he produces a woman who's several years older than him a foreigner with a child not the same religion deeply unsuitable in every way one can only imagine how he was torn by loyalty to Judy the woman he clearly loved and loyalty to his parents whom he knew he was this much-loved adored firstborn son I never pressured him I [Music] was twice divorced so it isn't like I was a Wallflower I didn't have to have a husband I loved my life with William so it wasn't about climbing the ladder it wasn't about having a title it was all about falling in love and whatever some people outside our circle our friendship thought none of that mattered we were just two people happy to be together [Music] if the royal family were worried they had reason to be Williams relationship with juicy evoked bitter memories of his uncle Edward the eighth thirty-five years earlier when he was torn between royal duty and his love for American divorcee Wallis Simpson he chose love and renounced the throne always there was the example of his uncle Edward and the difference between Edward and William was that he believed in his duty William wanted to be a good proper upright member of the British royal family but he also wanted the woman that he loved and he was an impossible position the example of his uncle shows that you can have the woman or you can have the throne but you can't have both William wasn't King but he was involved with a twice-divorced woman in the same way that his uncle David King Edward the eighth was involved with a twice-divorced woman and the outcome of that was abdication which really should not just the molecule shook the country to its foundations it was a very heavy handicap I think at that time and of course to double the any better it's been said that they were comparing me to mrs. Simpson [Music] if I would have listened to everything negative people were saying I would have been an unhappy woman and I wasn't I was a very happy woman the tabloid press soon seized upon rumors of the sensational royal affair one young gossip columnist got his story with a simple but audacious phone call it didn't seem wrong to me to dial Bangla manner asked for Prince William and find myself talking to him I told her who I was of course why I was calling and the result was but he said you know he wasn't sure whether there was a future in the marriage yes his parents were uneasy about it but he said I remember this distinctly he mentioned his uncle Edward how even having given up the throne couldn't lose the fact that he was royal that was a very significant point and it was the same for William and he talked about it was remarkable freedom in fact I got the impression he was relieved to get a call from someone so then he could talk about it as he agonized over his future Prince William wrote to his cousin the Queen seeking her counsel on his plans hero to Queen Elizabeth to see what the reaction would be if we got married and he said that she was very gracious and said follow your heart [Music] but where did his heart lie other senior Royals left the young Prince in no doubt where his true responsibilities lay Prince Phillip was pretty much up in arms against us marrying he gave us an example his uncle who abdicated as a scary example and I was very sorry don't like to see William struggles I think he was struggling with that in spite of his own feelings that was the rock and the hard place because I believed that he wanted to stay together with me I trusted that that's what he really wanted and I know he felt the weight of responsibility on his shoulders [Music] Prince Phillip who you would think might look sympathetically upon a relationship of that kind absolutely astern only turned his face against it and the reason why was that in the late sixties and early seventies the royal family did not feel secure it may have looked secure but it did not feel secure it was worried about its future it was worried about its immediate past and anything which could inflict damage on the royal family was frowned upon he was very fond of Prince Phillip so he would have minded very much what they thought he would have known so possibility I was [Music] [Music] as he continued to struggle over his future in August 1970 William decided to put the affair on hold it was a decision that led to an emotional parting of the ways [Music] the last time I actually saw William M person was at the airport when he delivered me and deposited me in British Airways seat that's the last time I saw him and we just said we'll be in touch and I don't remember wearing very big sunglasses to cover the fact that I was sad [Music] in my heart of hearts I had the faith that at some point we'll be back together even if he decides for the moment that this is not it he would miss me we just had too much together so although I was very sad to not be with him now I in deep down then I thought be patient [Music] was usually flew to New York and William remained in England in the following months they kept him touch by phone and letter and kept alive their hopes of a happy ending to their love story but neither could have predicted the cruel twist of fate that lay ahead by 1972 it seemed that Prince William's dream of marrying Zhu Zhi Starkloff was fading and he was resigned to managing the family estate but in late summer his love of flying prompted an unexpected call visually a call that reignited hopes of a future together I spoke with William and he said oh there's going to be an air race and he said in his usual manner would you like to join me and fly with me in that air race and I told him that I'm not able to free myself for that I had other obligations basically in New York and he said all right I will ask my flight instructor to go with me with Jews Easton in New York on the August bank holiday William traveled to Wolverhampton to compete in the air show among the crowd of 50,000 spectators was local photographer Ray Bradbury [Music] this photograph shows him arriving and in his pocket he was obviously coming to enjoy the day he did he look like a movie star wearing his dark glasses and he never took the glasses off at all all the time I was in his company well he's a shot I did of the red arrows flying over Prince William while he's polishing his aircraft I thought this would be the picture of the day it just couldn't be beaten it was just a lovely pitch it summed it all up and it ended up to be not the picture of the day [Music] but seeing it for the first time from this angle I'm just amazed to where I can see now I was standing over there on the tower photographing it I felt guilty for not going [Music] I really thought that maybe things would have turned out differently for William if I had been with him I felt that I was a stabilizing influence on William he was ready for anything anytime I thought really devastated that I would have turned that down [Music] [Music] Prince William is on this side the other aircraft was over here and what I saw was the prince on this particular side bearing off to the left at such a low angle I I just couldn't believe what I was he [Music] [Music] nothing you can say that would ever describe feelings that this brings out [Music] after turning tightly Williams plane had stalled when it crashed to the ground he died instantly he was just 30 years old alongside him in the seat where he wanted Yugi to be that day his co-pilot also lost his life I think this is where it happened because the hedgerow doesn't look as old as the hedgerows one side or the other and it looks as if probably because of the intense fire that it's destroyed all the old hydro this is where it happened I could see the fireman and people here working and customers from the pub down the road came running out and helping but no avail I couldn't do a thing and the flames were just in so intense it just seems incredible that this is where a member of the royal family was killed [Music] devastating devastating and it is so sad it's so sad my good friend for me it was harder for Gigi and part of her must have grown is going out I think for about three months I was numb I didn't go to the funeral I would have been an embarrassment I would have sobbed out loudly the whole time and I kind of regret that in the way I should have been there but I was mourning my way [Music] on the 2nd of September 1972 Prince William was laid to rest at Windsor Castle his father was too frail to attend but his mother lady Alice was joined by the Queen Prince Philip and Prince Charles William have Gloucester's death on that August bank holiday Monday in such tragic circumstances was a serious loss to the royal family and to the monarchy [Music] quite clearly the royal family were devastated by this you can see from Prince Charles who was only 23 boo hood looked up to his older cousin and now he wasn't there for him anymore so to lose somebody like that was was really an enormous practical loss for the royal family as well as the deep personal tragedy such was Prince Charles's respect for William in 1982 when Princess Diana gave birth to his first son he named him Prince William many years later the future king would be free to marry for reasons of the heart and not for those of royal protocol the tragedy for William of Gloucester was to have lived out his short life in a world very different to that of today's Prince William he was just on the cusp of when things were changing in the 60s I think if he had have been able to wait because after all in 1978 Princess Margaret was divorced so and that was the first divorce in the royal family for 400 years so I think if he could have just waited it out perhaps this could have been a fairytale romance after all they're a golden couple there's absolutely no question of that they were deeply in love with each other but it was the wrong time the wrong place and fate was against them Yugi Starkloff never married again after Williams death today almost 50 years later she retains her memories of their days together and a treasured symbol of the marriage that could never be one day very unexpectedly William looked at me and took off the ring that he was wearing all these years and put it on my hand and he said he wanted me to have that and keep it forever this ring today I wear on a chain on my neck you can see the insignia on me it means commitment to me kind of uh like a last word on the long wonderful relationship [Music] [Applause] you [Music]

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Length: 46min 40sec (2800 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 08 2020