On September 19, 2017, Prince William playfully addressed the rapidly progressing baldness that had plagued him for several years. This hair problem had also earned the Prince a lighthearted joke in 2014 from his wife, Kate Middleton. During a visit to an Australian agricultural show, the Duchess jokingly encouraged her husband to replenish his hair with alpaca wool.
William's baldness hasn't always been a source of amusement for him; he was once rather cruelly nicknamed "Hairless Heir." At just 35, the young Duke of Cambridge has lost his once-charming blond locks, a clear legacy from Diana, and is now balder than his father, Charles, 68! Even his grandfather, Prince Philip, now retired at 96, sports a fuller head of hair.
William has long battled baldness, which began to become a concern in 2006. At that time, the prince already showed a very pronounced receding hairline at the back of his head and tried expensive hair treatments, all of which stubbornly failed. Since January 2016, what William once considered a (minor) misfortune has now become a perfectly accepted flaw.
