William turns 30 today and comes into a whopping £12million.

By INGRID SEWARD, Editor of Majesty magazine

The Sun.

HALF a lifetime ago when his mother Diana died, 15-year-old Prince William was grief-stricken, insecure and terrified of the future role his birthright had thrust upon him.

Today, as he turns 30, he has every reason to feel positive about what scared him as a boy.

Wills is with a woman he loves, has an exciting job he enjoys, has the admiration and respect of his father and his grandmother, who is also his sovereign — and he has just inherited a £12million trust fund from his late mother’s estate.

Diana’s will stipulated both her sons should inherit equal shares of her estate, to be held in trust until they reached the age of 30.

If he should so wish, Wills could buy several Ferraris, a string of polo ponies (which cost up to £50,000 each), a Jet Ranger helicopter (£500,000) or the La Peregrina pearl — given to Mary Tudor and later purchased by Richard Burton as a Valentine’s present for Elizabeth Taylor and worth £7.1million.

But Wills was brought up to be careful with cash. As a child he had to make his own bed before he got his pocket money. His grandmother the Queen is famously frugal and goes around switching off lights and wearing an extra cardigan instead of turning up the heating.

They are traits William shares.

It does not mean he doesn’t like the finer things in life, but he already has access to so many of them. Any paintings he desires from the Royal Collection can be his on loan to hang in his own home.