Oh dear, poor Prince William. He was a sweet child with a bright smile and a beautiful thatch of shining, ash blond hair, which, slowly but surely, he began to lose from his late teens. But it’s not his fault, as he seems to be a recipient of — one hesitates to say victim of — male pattern baldness, also known as androgenic alopecia.
The main cause of male pattern baldness seems to be found on the X chromosome, which is interesting because it means he inherited it from his mother, Diana, and not from his balding dad, the Prince of Wales. If William had gotten the X chromosome from Charles, he would have been, after all, a girl. Indeed, all of the bald royal lads in William’s family inherited their baldness — as so many inherited hemophilia — from their mother’s side of the family. Only Prince Harry has so far managed to avoid baldness completely and oddly enough, takes his looks from his dad!
Let’s look at Williams’ direct ancestors. Prince Albert, Victoria’s consort, went bald in his middle age. Edward the VII was bald. However, George V wasn’t as bald as all that, though he looked like he had some thinning on top. George VI seemed to have had a healthy head of hair till the day he died. The Queen Mum was said to be bald on top but all those eye catching hats hid that. Would she count, anyway? When one lives to be as old as she was, a little baldness is to be expected. Tetchy Prince Phillip is fairly bald as well, as is his put-upon son.
Among William’s uncles, Edward is bald but Andrew isn’t. Earl Spencer wasn’t bald the last time the writer looked.
What should William do?
Perhaps he could use a product like, Regaine hair loss treatment, contains minoxidil, which might be of help with regrowing hair. This drug began as a treatment for high blood pressure, then researchers saw that it also grew hair and reversed baldness Wills can also undergo a hair transplant if he wishes. Companies have had some success with hair growth by cloning hair follicles and replanting them in the denuded areas.
However, William probably won’t do any of these things, nor should he. First, it would be noticed. “What is Prince William Taking For His Hair Loss?” is probably not something he’d want to see as a tabloid’s banner headline. More to point, all accounts claim that he’s a lovely young man, kind, compassionate, a good soldier, deeply in love with his new wife. He’s an extremely popular Royal member. So what if he’s bald? It’s just part of another long, old, Windsor family tradition!
