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• Spent a gap year between Eton College and university traveling to Chile, Belize and Africa, and working on a dairy farm in Britain.
• Played water polo at both Eton and University of St. Andrews.
• After university, trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, becoming commissioned as an officer in 2006.
• Appointed as a Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II in 2008.
• Became a Patron of Centrepoint, a homelessness charity, in 2005; his mother, Diana, was a former Patron of the charity.
• Created, with his brother Harry, the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry in 2009.
• Succeeded Richard Attenborough in 2010 as the president of BAFTA, a post formerly held by his grandfather, Prince Philip, and his aunt, Princess Anne.