I do not think that’s ES. Looks like William, Duke of Windsor
The Duke of Windsor died many years ago, William is the Duke of Cambridge.
I do not think that’s ES. Looks like William, Duke of Windsor
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At this stage I can see that as a good guess. So we have two candidates at this point:
ES
Prince William
Your nomination of Prince William as a candidate seems plausible.
I did a quick little dipsy doo into the Prince, and yes there is perhaps a compelling reason he might be having some business in Hong Kong. It seems there is a major hospital there formed by his dear old dad, Prince Charles. It was formed following the major changes in the UK’s medical care structure laws. Following is the result of bunny hole search of:
PRINCE WILLIAM AND HONG KONG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_Hospital
Prince of Wales Hospital
“…Officially opened in 1984 and named after Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital now provides approximately 1,650 hospital beds and 24 hours accident and emergency service with about 5,440 staff. It is also the regional hospital responsible for the Eastern New Territories serving Shatin, Tai Po, North New Territories, Sai Kung and the outlying islands in East New Territories.
The hospital is supported by the Li Ka-shing Specialist Clinics for specialty outpatient services. The Hospital Governing Committee is the ultimate decision-making authority of the hospital. The current chief executive of the Hospital is Dr. SV Lo.
Foundation
The history of Prince of Wales Hospital is connected with that of the Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, which begins in 1974 when the Hong Kong government proposed developing the second medical school and the new teaching hospital at Sha Tin.
Building of Prince of Wales Hospital started on 1 December 1979. It was expected that the hospital would be completed by September 1982 and be operational by May 1983. This would permit the first batch of medical students admitted in October 1981 to start their clinical training at the hospital in July 1983. Delayed by a year, the hospital was finally completed in November 1983 and went into operation on 1 May 1984.
Although the delay had been confirmed, an opening ceremony was held on 1 November 1982 as originally planned. It was performed by Katharine, Duchess of Kent.
[From Wikipedia re the Duchess:
“Katharine, Duchess of Kent, GCVO (born Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley; 22 February 1933), is a member of the British Royal Family. Her husband, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, is a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Duchess of Kent gained attention for her conversion to Catholicism in 1994, the first member of the Royal Family to convert publicly since the passing of the Act of Settlement 1701. The Duchess of Kent is strongly associated with the world of music, and has performed as a member of several choirs....”]
Due to the delay, temporary arrangements were made with United Christian Hospital for clinical teaching of the first batch of medical students, and the teaching activities were gradually transferred from United Christian Hospital to Prince of Wales Hospital….”
“….SARS epidemic
In 2003, a severe epidemic severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred in multiple countries. The epidemic in Hong Kong started with the outbreak in Prince of Wales Hospital on 10 March 2003 when 11 healthcare workers in ward 8A (later renamed 8H) had shown symptoms of atypical pneumonia at the same time. Epidemiologic investigation had linked these cases to a patient who was admitted to ward 8A on 4 March 2003. The patient had previously visited an ill professor from Guangzhou.
The disease was unknown at the time. The infection soon spread extensively in ward 8A, affecting 143 individuals who had direct contact with the patient, including healthcare workers, medical students, other patients in the same ward, visitors, and the patient’s relatives. It was found that the outbreak was amplified by the use of nebuliser treatment on the patient.
In response to the outbreak, the hospital had implemented several control measures, including restricting access to the 8th floor of the main building (where ward 8A was situated), suspension of some services, and dividing the medical team into a dirty team and a clean team. The dirty team, led by Professor Joseph Sung, was responsible for taking care of SARS patients. The clean team was barred from the SARS wards.
[Floor 8. texokie’s suspicious mind hopes there is no connection (and there probably isn’t) to the concepts of “Building 8.... or Floor 7”.... and other gathering places of the elite and their skullduggery. Just showing evidence of how bunny holing these people has affected an otherwise open and trusting mind.]
The outbreak in the hospital eventually affected 239 individuals…”
Hospital Governance
“….
This is a list of current and former chairmen of the committee:
Peter Woo Kwong-ching, JP (?–1995)
John Chan Cho-chak, GBS, JP (1995–2004)
Edward Ho Sing-tin, SBS, JP (2004–2014)
Winnie Ng Wing-mui (2014–present)...”
“Assisted human reproduction
In November 1987, Prince of Wales Hospital delivered the first baby from gamete intrafallopian transfer in Hong Kong.
In February 1991, the first twins resulting from pronuclear stage tubal transfer (PROST) in Hong Kong was born at the hospital. PROST is a technique that involves in vitro fertilisation (IVF), followed by transfer of the pronuclear oocytes into the fallopian tubes.
In April 1994, the first baby resulting from sub-zonal insemination (SUZI) in Hong Kong was born at the hospital. SUZI is an IVF technique where sperm is placed between the zona pellucida and the cell membrane of an oocyte.
Skin bank
The burns unit of the hospital opened Hong Kong’s first skin bank on 14 November 1992. It was also the world’s first comprehensive and multi-purpose skin bank set up to provide frozen pigskin, donated cadaver skin and cultivated skin, and to make and process biosynthetic skin….”
SO
It appears there may be fertile ground here for speculation as to the importance of that hospital and the activities good and/or bad in which it may be involved. I leave that to my fellow FReeQs who might be interested.
Whether the Prince is the one shown in Q’s picture or not, it may be fruitful in the future to remember that there is such an institution named after the “Prince of Wales” in Hong Kong,