Like his characters in the movies, Tom Cruise appeared when it was most necessary. It happened yesterday, Wednesday, at the gala for the Air Ambulance Charity that was held at a London hotel. Hours before, Prince William attended his first event on the agenda after his wife's operation last month and the news of his father's cancer, an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, and appeared in a military uniform, visibly nervous and emaciated: the cancer detected in Charles III, and the long – and opaque in terms of the information provided – post-operative period for Kate Middleton, have taken their toll on him. Thus, he attended his charity event dressed in a tuxedo and it was the presence of his old friend that made him smile in public, for the first time in many days.
Air Ambulance Charity is trying to raise a figure close to 18 million euros between now and autumn to replace its fleet of helicopters and Guillermo, who was a pilot of these air ambulances, has been on the organization's board of trustees since 2020: “I would like to take advantage This opportunity to also thank you for the kind messages of support to Catherine and my father, especially in recent days. “It means a lot to all of us.” And since he had already met Tom Cruise and he had displayed his proverbial charm, the prince ended his speech with a joke: “It's fair to say that the last few weeks have had a rather 'medical' focus. So I thought I'd come to an air ambulance show to get away from it all!”
In fact, a while before the start of the gala, Guillermo met with teams from the air ambulance service and joked with Cruise about the shoes he was wearing at the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick, some C slippers.
The friendship between Tom Cruise and William goes back a long way: Diana of Wales met him and Nicole Kidman with the premiere of Far Far Away and when the filming of Mission: Impossible (1996) stopped in London, she took her two children to the set. The friendship between the actor and the princess lasted until her fatal accident; Lady Di's death deeply affected Cruise. He attended her funeral accompanied by Nicole Kidman and said she “was a magical person.” Furthermore, his fluid relationship with the British royal family led him to be one of the guests at the coronation ceremony of Charles III.
