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Under the blinding glare of the BAFTA spotlights, William and Kate did exactly what royals are trained to do: they performed. They smiled, posed, and moved with an air of effortless elegance, maintaining the facade expected of them. Yet, each flash of the camera seemed to echo the chaos unleashed by Andrew’s arrest, a silent reminder that the family’s carefully curated image was vulnerable, perhaps irreparably so. William’s jaw tightened almost imperceptibly, his fingers curling into a subtle self-soothing gesture—a small, human tell of a man straining to maintain composure under immense public pressure.
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