If the U.K. Conservative Party’s plans to reinstate National Service are adopted—providing the party wins the general election on July 4—all 18-year-old citizens in the U.K. will be required to either serve in the armed forces or serve through volunteer work for a year. Following Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement about this plan, the Conservative Party confirmed to The Telegraph that children in the British royal family—Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, for starters—would not be exempt from this requirement and would be required to serve just like everybody else.
