[instrumental music playing]
[narrator]
 The future of
 the British Monarchy
 lies in the hands
 of two brothers,
 Prince William
 and Prince Harry.
As the children of one the most
infamous royal relationships
of the 20th century,
 their childhood was plagued
 by turmoil and tragedy.
Their lives have been
played out in the media gaze
 for better and worse
more than ever before
in the history of the monarchy.
 Determined to continue
 the legacy of their mother,
 bridging the gap
 between monarchy and people,
 with openness and honesty.
[people cheering]
The relationship between
William and Harry is crucial.
 When Princess Diana died,
 it was William
 that put that loving arm
 around Prince Harry
 and helped him
 through the difficult trauma
 of losing a parent.
And I think that brought them
even closer together,
 than what normal siblings
 would be.
There are only two people
who can understand,
the upbringing that
William and Harry have had,
and that's William and Harry.
[narrator]
 They have become endeared,
 to the British public,
 as they remain the most
 popular members
 of the royal family.
 This is their story.
[man]
Will we see you dancing?
I really hope not.
I hope so.
Him, not me.
I hope that we can get
a chance to see him dance.
It'd be a terrifying sight
if we do.
It's almost impossible
to describe,
to a stranger or someone,
who's never met
Princess Diana,
what she was really like.
What I usually say is,
she was as beautiful inside
as she was out.
[narrator]
 The British royal family
 has long upheld
 a reputation of silence
 and distance.
 After generations of
 privileged ignorance,
 one woman was to challenge
 all expectations
 and rewrite
 the royal rule book.
 That woman was,
 Lady Diana Spencer.
[people cheering]
Is there any possibility,
there are any announcements
of your marriage
in the near future.
Can you tell me?
[girl shouting]
Can you tell me if
there's any possibility.
I'm not going to say anything,
I'm afraid.
Okay, Prince Charles
did give us a hint himself.
He said, we would'nt have to
wait too long.
Careful. [giggles]
 On July the 29th, 1981,
 Lady Diana
 married Prince Charles
and became her royal highness,
the Princess of Wales.
 In one of the most
 extravagant weddings
 in modern history.
Well, Charles and Diana met
when Diana was still a teenager,
and she was
very young at the time,
In fact her older sister
had been cherry-picked
as a potential suitor.
 for Prince Charles
 and had in fact dated.
 Sarah and Charles did date,
 but it was Diana who caught
 Prince Charles's eye.
Well, I remember thinking
what a bit of jolly,
and amusing and attractive
sixteen year old she was.
And, I mean, great fun.
And, bouncy and full of life
and everything.
And, I don't know what
you thought of me...
Pretty amazing.
Well I think,
everybody remembers
Charles and Diana's wedding
as this fairy tale.
I think even
the Arch Bishop of Canterbury
 at the time
 referred to it as such.
 Obviously quite 80s heavy
 when you think about Diana's
 huge meringues gown
 and all of the people
 in attendance.
 And obviously,
 the romantic venue
that was Saint Paul's Cathedral
at the time.
 And this was an event
 watched by global audience
 of multi-millions.
 So it was a major
 major royal occasion.
The fairy tale dress,
the golden carriage,
 the beautiful ceremony
 at Saint Paul's,
 the blushing bride,
 the proud prince.
It just ticked all the boxes.
It was the fairy tale wedding.
Or so we all thought.
[crowd cheering]
[narrator]
 Prince William Arthur
 Phillip Louis,
 was born on
 the 21st of June, 1982.
 Two years later,
 on September the 15th 1984,
 his brother,
 Prince Henry Charles
 Albert David,
 more commonly known as
 Prince Harry was born.
[Katie Carroll]
 By '82,
 the country had a new heir,
 and that was a cause
 for great celebration.
The crowds, the photographers,
 the world press
 were all camped outside
The Lindo Wing at Saint Mary's
in June 1982.
 And the fact that Diana
 produced a little boy.
 An heir, 
 I think just further
 endeared her
 to the British public,
 people loved her even more.
 And when she came out
 holding Prince William,
 with Prince Charles
images that really just melted
 I think even the most
 hardened hearts
 around the country.
 And it was a cause
 for great celebration.
Britain had come through
a difficult time,
And I think the royal family
were giving the country
something to look forward to.
 I remember saying,
 to Princess Diana,
 on one occasion,
 when her son was getting
 taller and taller,
I said, "You've bred
some height
into the royal family"
 and she said,
 "Yes! And good looks,
 and good looks"
 And what she was
 talking about was the,
 introduction of her family,
 the Spencer's
 into a very tight
 royal gene pool.
And the result was,
two good looking sons.
[Katie Caroll]
Being a new mother there were
obviously challenges for Diana
 but being a new mother
 and being a member
 of the royal family
and trying to juggle everything
 within the confines of
 Kensington Palace
 I think really did
 take their toll.
 Now, Diana
 did make the decision
 to hire a nanny
 for Prince William
I think she was always paranoid
as both of the boys
were growing up
that they might become
too close to their nanny.
In fact she fired
one of the nannies
 a wonderful woman
 called Barbara Barnes
 who both, William and Harry
 doted on.
Because it was Barbara Barnes
who Willy would run to
and jump into bed with
in the morning, not Diana.
So, there was that
constant struggle,
of wanting to be
the perfect mother
and wanting to be
the perfect Princess.
 And I think she found it
 hard to reconcile those.
 Remember she was still
 very young.
 Much younger than Kate is,
 in this position,
and I think far less supported.
[narrator]
 The dismissal of
 the royal nanny made it clear
 that Diana did not
 want her sons
 to have the traditionally
 distant royal upbringing.
She wanted to be at
the forefront of their lives.
 Choosing their first names,
their clothes, their nurseries,
and schools.
 She was a mother first,
 and a Princess second.
The boys were incredibly close
to their mother.
 And it was important to her
that they were not brought up
 inside a bubble
 of royal privilege.
Against established protocol,
 she took her sons
 to charity visits
 as well as restaurants,
 theme parks
 and local towns and shops.
 She instilled within them
 an understanding and respect
 for the every day person
 and those less fortunate.
[Katie Caroll]
Diana really broke the mould,
 when it came to parenting
she did things differently.
She loved to have fun,
she loved to giggle,
she love to play
practical jokes,
And she loved
nothing more than,
cuddling up with her two boys,
watching TV.
And watching game shows
and soap operas,
And the boys were the centre
of her world.
William, although he looks
like his mother,
 is more like his father.
 He's studious,
 he's very careful,
 he's very respectful.
 He's duty bound.
 Harry on the other hand,
 is a hybrid of
 the Spencers' red hair
 and the Windsors.
 But he had his mother's
 naughty streak.
 Harry is the fun guy.
 Harry was always the boy,
that would take apart
the television set.
He would, the video recorder,
 he would have in bits.
and want then,
to put it back together again.
 Harry was always a soldier,
William was always the General,
[inaudible]
[boys giggling]
 William's education
 was at Eton college.
 William's mother,
 Diana Princess of Wales
insisted that he went to Eton
as did her father
and her younger brother Charles
 Prince Charles,
 exceeded to this,
 He went to Gordonston where
 he was thoroughly miserable
He allowed his sons, both,
to go to a very elitist school
It's very elite,
it's very expensive
it's very posh, if you will.
But it also has a degree
of freedom for the pupils.
They are encouraged
to be self confident
and find themselves.
And when William came there,
 after being at Ludgrove
 the prep school,
 people realized
 as he had to sign in
 every pupil signs in
 to the book, when they come,
 that he was left handed.
[Katie Caroll]
Diana, she really didn't think
Eton was right for Harry,
He ended up getting a place,
and he ended up going
and he ended up doing very well.
but there was a serious
thought at the time
that perhaps
Eton wasn't the right choice
and that maybe they would
look at somewhere else
in the end both boys
went to Eton and in doing so
they set a royal precedent.
[narrator]
 The Wales marriage
 was infamously turbulent
 and by the late late 80's
 it was becoming
 increasingly clear
that the cracks were forming
behind the happy family facade.
 Finally in 1996
after four years of separation
 Prince Charles
 and Princess Diana divorced.
 Undeterred by the loss
 of her royal title,
 'Her Royal Highness',
 Diana committed herself
 to extensive charity work.
 Including an incredibly
 successful campaign
 against anti personnel
 land mines.
 She was able to use
 her favouring in the press
 to her advantage,
and bring to light
issues of suffering
and disease across the world.
 I think if Princess
 Diana and Prince Charles
 had been ordinary people
 they'd have probably
 got divorced a lot sooner
 than they eventually did.
You had this period of
several years that
where they were
sleeping in separate bedrooms
apparently post 1986,
they were leading
rather separate lives.
 You've then got
 Charles going off,
 and not only pursuing his
 own country interests
 and indeed his relationship
 with Camilla Parker Bowles
 as it now turns out
but Diana also seeking solace
from some of her own
male friendships.
 And essentially a schism
is being created in
their marriage where they're
 living under the same roof
 but very different lives
[Katie Caroll]
 To anyone in the know,
 it was very obvious
 that the Wales' marriage
 was in real trouble
by the late 80s
and inevitably,
the announcement was made by
the then Prime Minister
John Major,
that Diana and Charles
were going to separate.
Now, Diana knew that
this was going to ricochet
and she made sure that
the first people who found out
that they were going to separate
were William and Harry
and she actually made the drive
to Ludgrove school herself,
 to go and tell them.
 And Harry took it very badly
 of course being younger
 than William, he was
 incredibly upset.
 William was pretty stoic
 and said to his mother well,
 'If you're happier,
 if you're going to be
 happier mummy,
"Then this is
the right thing to do."
because of course Diana
didn't have many confidants
I think that with palace
came a lock down.
Yes, there were some courtiers
but you couldn't really
confide in courtiers.
 There was some
 close friends but
 the person she really often
 confided in was William.
 And as a young boy
 trying to cope with that
 was a huge weight
 on his shoulders
but it as William who would
push tissues under the door
to Diana while she was having
a good sob in the bathroom.
One must remember that
Prince William had a,
had to be very quite mature
when he was young
because his mother
Princess Diana
confided in him quite a lot.
into the problems
of their marriage.
with Prince Charles
and so he knew an awful lot
probably a lot more
than any young boy
of his age would have known
You have to remember that
as much as Princess Diana
is famous for her warmth
and just closeness to her boys,
 they very much
 did not have a secure stable
 warm family environment
 growing up
their parents were divorced
 it was very acrimonious
 for quite a few years
their father is quite famous
for being cold and distant
 at points very aloof.
 There really wasn't a...
Kind of a happy family
for either of those boys
Diana took it upon herself
to give an interview
to Martin Bashir,
who was a presenter of Panorama.
 Completely unprecedented
 a total shock
 to the royal family
and to William
and Harry as well.
I don't think any one
was prepared for this
bombshell of an interview.
Diana sat down
and gave this interview
and talked about there being
three in the marriage
she talked about
her husband's infidelity
with Camilla Parker Bowles.
She talked about
her own infidelity.
I mean she opened up the book
in a way that no one had before
The royal family saw it as
hanging her dirty laundry
in public.
They were furious,
Charles was livid
 And of course caught
 in this very ugly cross fire
 were two little boys
and William who was
at Eton at the time
who had to deal with the taunts
and the other children
having seen this interview
mocking his mother
in her doe eyes
as she was talking
to Martin Bashir.
Very, very difficult
for both of them.
Harry was more sheltered
he was still at
Ludgrove at the time.
And I remember
the headmaster there
making sure that
newspapers were banned,
they were out the way,
no one could watch
that interview.
It was his way
of protecting Harry
think at Eton it was
much more harder to do that,
William was exposed
to everything.
And he called his mother
in a fury and a rage.
I remember speaking
to Simone Simmons
who was one of
Diana's closest friends
It was the one time when
William turned on his mother
according to Simone and said,
that he would never forgive
Diana for what she'd done.
I've taken the children
to all sorts of areas where
I'm not sure anyone of that age
in this family's been before.
And they have a knowledge
they may never use it
but if the seed is there
and I hope it will grow.
 Diana, princess of Wales
 has been seriously injured
 in a car accident in Paris.
 Her companion Dodi Al Fayed
 has been killed.
 The driver of
 the Princesses' car
is also understood to be dead
 The accident happened
 at just after midnight
 in the west of the city
 near the Alma bridge.
[narrator]
 On August the 31st, 1997
 Diana Princess of Wales
 was killed in a car accident.
 The driver of the car
 lost control at high speed
 and struck the 13th column
 of L' Alma tunnel in Paris.
 Diana died four hours later
 in hospital from extensive
 internal injuries.
 First I want to pay tribute
 to Diana myself.
 She was an exceptional
 and gifted human being.
In good times and bad
 she never lost her capacity
 to smile and laugh
nor to inspire others
with her warmth and kindness.
While the new of Diana's death
was hugely shocking,
I remember tuning in
to the news,
first thing in the morning,
my mother came in and said,
 "Princess Diana is dead" and
 just absolute disbelief.
None us could believe that this
wonderful woman had died.
 The boys were told
 early in the morning
 before they would have
 had a chance to have
 turned the news on
 It was Charles who
 broke the news
 because William and Harry
 were at Balmoral.
 The Queen and the
 Duke of Edinburgh
 were also in residence
and Charles had received a call
from his private secretary
 very late in the night,
 to say that
 Diana had been involved
 in a serious accident
 in a tunnel in Paris
 and that he would be posted
 which he duly was
 and he was informed
 that she had died
 and so the duty of
 telling his sons
 fell to him and
 it was a truly
 awful time for Charles,
 the realization that
his estranged wife had died,
that he was going to have to
raise his sons as a sole parent
 and in the immediate future
how on earth was he going to
brave this unimaginably awful
tragic news to his sons.
But he did, to William first
and to Harry afterwards
 and they did that together
 William said to Charles,
I need to be there
when you tell Harry,
and he was.
You know I remember the day
William and Harry came back
to Kensington Palace
after their mother died
 I remember
 standing in the hallway
 and William walked in
 and shook my hand
and asked me if I was alright,
I said, I'm fine thank you.
Harry ran down the corridor,
flung his arms around me
and broke his heart.
I still remember his tears,
wet my shirt through.
He was broken hearted.
 I admired and respected her,
 for her energy
 and commitment to others
 and especially
 for her devotion
 to her two boys.
 This week at Balmoral,
 we have all been trying
 to help William and Harry
 come to terms
 with the devastating loss,
that they and the rest of us
have suffered.
[narrator]
 William was 15,
 Harry was 12.
 Their world would
 never be the same.
[Katie Caroll]
 When the Queen came home
 from Scotland
 to address her nation
 and witnessed first hand
 that immense
 out pouring of grief
 I don't think anyone
 was prepared for that
 and I think when
 the Queen saw it,
she recognized just how much
a part of the British nation
Diana was
 and what a special place
 the British people
held in their hearts for Diana
and therefore there needed to be
a proper state funeral.
The boys were,
very quite and sombre.
Again I saw them
coming through the isle
and my heart ached for them
and even the Queen was moved.
And people think that the Queen
was hard during that time
but she wasn't, she was touched
and moved by it.
If you see that speech she gave,
you will see that
she was moved
She din't quite understand it,
but she was moved.
[soft instrumental music]
William particularly took a lot
of coaxing to walk behind,
his mothers coffin
it was something he didn't feel
that he was going to
be able to do,
 and it was in fact
 the duke of Edinburgh
 who at the last minute said,
"You must do it, because
you'll regret it if you don't"
 "And if you do it,
 I'll do it"
because the duke of Edinburgh
was never due to walk
behind the coffin.
So to give the boys strength,
Phillip did it.
And it was an amazing thing
for him to do as a grandfather.
 But I think certainly
 without a doubt for the boys,
 the hardest public duty
 because it was
 so public for them,
 that they would ever
 had to have carried out.
And they were both so young
 and the enormity of
 what happened
 the grief that
 they were coping with
 I'm sure hadn't settled in
 by that point
 but I think, hearts broke
 around the world
 people watched that funeral
 all over the globe
 when they saw the coffin
 passing and that little
 envelope on the top
with a wreath of flowers
with the word 'Mummy' which had
been hand written by Harry.
Although you had this
global superstars funeral
which the world was watching
because she was
this iconic figure.
At the same time
you were reminded that day
with those two very small boys
walking behind that coffin
that actually this was
somebody's mother
and it almost felt intrusive,
 grossly intrusive to be
 following those boys
 on that path.
 In that cortege really.
 And I think equally,
we have to reflect
that those princes
have been changed immeasurably
by their mother's death.
[William] Thank you very much.
[Harry]
Thank you.
[crowd clapping]
Really there are only two people
who can understand
the upbringing that
William and Harry have had,
and that's William and Harry.
It's a very unusual way
to grow up
 and then the addition
 of course,
 the tragedy of losing
 their mother at
 such a young age
 bonded the boys to
 an incredibly deep extent.
You know that Harry has said
that William is the only person
 he can tell
 absolutely everything
And I think for William
it's been said that Harry
is the only person he can
truly be himself with, without
worrying about anything
conventionally or how it sounds
or comes across
or if he seems Princely.
He can just be himself
Harry and William
have a great relationship
despite the fact that
they're very different
young men.
Harry is much more easy going
and carefree
and living by
the seat of his pants
and William has always been
a bit more serious and studious
and sort of a straight arrow
However, their affection
for each other, their bond,
is unshakable.
William and Harry are,
acutely aware of where
things went wrong in the press,
in their early life
and there's an argument,
and quite a strong one,
to suggest that the wheels
so spectacularly fell off
Diana's life
 and her public image
 and how she was
 portrayed in the press
 and how she was pursued
 by journalists
 and photographers
 that contributed to her
 tragic demise and I think,
what you have with William
is a guy who has
learned lessons a
and there's really nothing
any of those grey suited men
from Clarence house
could genuinely tell William
that he doesn't already know
about the press.
And he understands the media,
he understands that as a royal
you're never going to be elected
but that doesn't mean
that public opinion
isn't incredibly important
to you and your longevity.
And William I think
really understands that,
he gets it.
He's very very open
and willing to
forge relationships
with the press.
But he wants it
on his terms
and he does not want a repeat
of what we saw happen
to Princess Diana.
What you have to remember is
that William and Harry
are Diana's sons primarily.
Yes of course they are
Charles's sons as well
but Charles was never there.
Diana was always there.
She fed them,
she was there at meal times,
she changed their nappies
she was there at bath times,
she read them bedtime stories,
she fetched them from school.
Charles didn't.
Diana instilled
in those two boys
her hopes, her dreams
and her ideals.
So what you see
in William today,
is an extension of Diana.
[upbeat music]
Neither he nor his brother,
could say that they were
great academics, they weren't.
Princess Diana said famously,
"I'm, as thick as
to short planks."
 and Prince Charles is
 probably educated beyond
 his intelligence.
 He has a lot to say
 about a lot things
but he could not be said
to be an intellectual
though he has aspirations
that way.
[narrator] After completing
 his A levels William spent
 a gap year overseas.
He took part in British army
training exercises in Belize,
 Visited Africa
 and spent 10 weeks
 teaching children in Chile.
[William]
Basically, I wanted
to do something constructive
in my gap year rather than...
I could do quite a lot of work
but this was more in the way of
trying to help people out
and meet a whole range of other
different people from
different countries.
and at the same time
helping people,
in remote areas of Chile.
[William grunts]
[inaudible]
[narrator]
By 2001, he was back in the UK
and had enrolled at
the university
of Saint Andrews.
 It was here,
 that he fell in love.
William and Kate actually met
when they were both 16.
William was at Eton,
Kate was at Marlborough,
and they had
a mutual friend in common.
She was then called
Emilia d'Erlanger.
She's now known
as Emilia Patterson
And she is of course
Prince George's god-mother.
And she introduced
the two of them,
so there was a meeting,
many years before they
actually met at Saint Andrews.
But of course,
it was at Saint Andrew's
where that friendship,
because it was initially
a friendship, flourished.
William and Kate were at
the same Halls of residence
at Saint Salvadors.
They were on the same course
in the same year
 mean some people say,
 wasn't that just too much
 of a coincidence
But it was how things worked out
and they spent the first year
as undergraduates really
getting to know each other.
William was not particularly
happy in his course,
they were both doing
history of art.
And Kate was really great
actually at trying to keep
him focused,
keep him incentivized
and actually stop him
from leaving Saint Andrews.
Which was at one point
what he wanted to do.
And he didn't leave,
he switched course,
And they spent
the next four years
living together,
and falling in love.
I think that the wonderful thing
about Saint Andrew's was,
it was a bubble,
away from reality.
It was a life that
Prince William would have
never been able to enjoy.
Whether it was
going to the local shops.
Going to a local bar.
Going for a morning swim,
he could get on with his life,
and his relationship in private.
And I think the pair of them
absolutely loved those years
They look upon those
Saint Andrew's years
with great fondness.
And they are patrons of
Saint Andrew's university,
because they feel such
a strong connection
to that place.
[William]
This is a very special moment
for Katherine and me,
 it feels like coming home.
Despite being one of Europe's
leading research institutions,
 the third oldest
 university
in the English speaking world,
 and of course, far and away,
 the best university
 in the world.
 Saint Andrews still has
 that uncanny knack
[William laughs]
[crowd laughs]
So Saint Andrews still has that
uncanny knack
of feeling like home.
As they said,
by their own account,
they said they were
friends first
and then the romance began.
It seems that the royal family,
 were protecting William,
 it's about William
 to start with.
 But then William and Kate
 when the relationship began,
because they did a lot of their
early courting
in Saint Andrews
at the Queen's estate
in Balmoral.
Away from prying eyes,
lots of privacy, lots of time
to develop the relationship.
So that seems to have been,
a key factor in him being
left alone.
Lets not forget, there was still
that sense that these boys,
William and Harry,
had suffered a terror
and they had,
It's a fact, they had suffered
a terrible, terrible loss
in their teens.
It would have been,
particularly given
how their mother died,
it would have seemed
so awful to ignore that
respect and that space
that he needed to
develop and grow up,
And largely he was given it.
And Saint Andrew's was,
what we've just characterized
the university,
but maybe it was
the perfect place to do that
because it's a little bit
off the beaten track.
And you know, having Balmoral
up the road always helps.
While talking to
a royal insider
several years ago
she told me that,
one of the reasons
William fell in love with
Kate Middleton from
the very beginning,
was because of her family,
and her close relationship
with her siblings,
and parents.
As much as William
fell in love with Kate,
he definitely fell in love
with the Middleton family,
at the same time.
He would lie on the couch
with his head in the lap
of Mrs Middleton,
 or he would sit after dinner
 and talk for hours
 with Mr Middleton.
He loved the way Kate
was very friendly and playful,
 with her brother James,
 and sister Pippa.
 Feeling a part of
 that very close knit, tight,
very British family
was the first time in his life,
that he had ever
had that experience.
And for William,
it was utterly intoxicating.
 A lot of us in the press,
have complained that
Kate Middleton has
become so boring because
there's really nothing
to write about,
she wears the same shoes,
she wears the same
knee length skirts.
And really, never says
anything controversial.
But that's exactly
what the Queen
and the rest of the royals
love about her.
[narrator]
Prince William, having decided
to pursue a military career.
 was admitted to the
 Royal Military
 Academy Sandhurst
 in January, 2006.
 After successfully
 completing the course,
 he was commissioned as
 a second lieutenant
 at Sandhurst.
 on December the 15th, 2006.
 Joining his
 younger brother Harry,
 in the blues and royals.
 The Princes's enthusiasm
 for deployment was
 repeatedly squandered.
 It was deemed too dangerous,
to put the second in line
to the throne into the field.
In 2008, it was announced that
William would transfer
to the RAF
in order to fulfil the active,
role he desired,
 without being deployed
 into combat.
[William]
 I think nothing ever
 prepares you that well
 for what you're going to see
 and some of the incidences
when you're working with a team
you help each other out
and you talk about it
and you get through it that way
 so it's very important
 to talk about it.
 Prince Harry's
 military experience
 was fraught with
 security concerns.
He joined Sandhurst in 2005
and in 2006, it was announced
that he was to be deployed
to Iraq the following year.
 This led to a fierce
 public debate.
In May, just before the prince
was scheduled to be deployed,
the head of the British Army
General Sir Richard Dannatt,
announced that Harry would be
too high value a target
 and endanger
 his fellow soldiers.
 Thus would not be deployed.
 Harry made public
 his disappointment
 but accepted the decision.
I wouldn't have joined the army
unless I thought I was going to.
Simple as that.
If they said,
no you can't go front-line
then I wouldn't drag
my sorry ass through Sandhurst.
And I wouldn't be
where I am now.
[inaudible]
[inaudible]
[inaudible]
[narrator]
 In February 2008,
 the British ministry
 of defence,
 revealed that Harry had
 been secretly deployed,
 to Helmand Province
 in Afghanistan.
 There he operated as
 a forward air controller.
 He helped troops
 repel attacks from
 Taliban insurgents.
 And patrolled
 hostile territories.
 Harry attended the
 defence helicopter
 flying school.
 at RAF Shawbury,
 Joining his brother William
 who was completing
 his training,
 to be a search
 and rescue pilot.
I think the struggle
that I was talking about
was mainly the exams
and stuff like that.
When you start with
the Helicopter course,
you start with,
well something like,
four, five weeks of
ground school exams.
Exams never been my favourite
and I always knew that
I was going to find harder
than most people.
but I'm through that now.
And finally got hands on to
a job that I absolutely adore.
It is still hard work, but...
I'm better than William
so it's fine.
[William laughs sarcastically]
Yes, just like that,
[man]
Have you been helping him
with the exams?
An awful lot,
he needs a lot of help.
It's the RAF way,
you have to help the
Army out quite a lot.
[man]
Does it come down to
a lot of mental maths tests or?
Yeah, a bit of that,
few trick questions,
try and catch him out.
[reporter] Seven eight.
Yeah, exactly, lots of that.
But how I see it,
for you it's this,
 fundamentally and crucially
 about getting back to
 the front-line..
It is, I've always had a love
for helicopters.
I've always wanted
to be a pilot,
Mainly helicopters,
more than Volkswagen.
Even though I'm slightly under
the impression that it's
probably easier
than helicopters,
especially these things
arn't designed to fly but
I'm really enjoying it,
and as everyone knows
this is my easiest way to
getting back to the front line.
Maybe safer maybe not safer,
I don't know.
But there's a bit of pressure
from certain places
which I'm sure you're aware of
the reasons why I'm allowed to
go back and if I do go back then
apparently I can't do
the same job that I had.
So I'm looking
somewhere different,
more of a challenge than to try
and become a helicopter pilot,
[reporter] So was it made
pretty clear to you after
the last time in Afghanistan,
that it would be your
first and last time?
That it was too risky
for you to go back as a soldier.
More of the fact that,
I think the media has said that
they would never keep
their mouth shut.
if I went into the same job,
so I'd have to do
something different
if I wanted to go, yes.
But you are hopeful
confident and passionate,
that you do get back
by this means,
that you get back
to the front line?
Massively so, unless
they stop flying helicopters
out in Afghanistan soon,
which I hopefully they won't do
but as I said
I love flying helicopters,
or I'm loving flying
helicopters at the moment.
I just hope that
I can be better than the best.
I always strive to be
spot on but
who knows, to get out
to Afghanistan would
be fantastic.
And my best chance is to
do from a helicopter.
Are you off the ground yet?
-Sorry?
-Have you got off
the ground yet?
-Just got off the ground,
yeah, thank you.
-Oh Okay, just checking.
[Paul Burell]
I've known those two boys
William and Harry,
since they were born.
I used to change their nappies,
They use to call me uncle Paul.
I've always been there.
and I've watched them grow.
 I'm very proud of them.
 They're lovely boys.
 But, the public must know.
 William, although he
 looks like his mother,
 is more like his father,
 He's studious,
 he's very careful,
 he's very respectful,
 He's duty bound.
Harry on the other hand
is a hybrid of the Spencer's
red hair and the Windsor's.
But he has his mother's
naughty streak.
Harry is the fun guy,
Harry was always the boy,
that would take apart
the television set.
 The video recorder,
 he would have in bits.
And want then
to put it back together again.
Harry was always the soldier,
William was always the General.
 So when my two boys visited
 and they played war games.
William had an army
that he could direct,
he was always the leader.
That was his role
from the moment he was born.
But Harry is happy
to muck in.
So, if I needed help,
in my pantry at Highgrove,
 if he needed help
 mucking at the stable,
 I'd be there for him.
 he'd be there for me.
Harry will muck in with anyone.
Harry's a fun boy.
I don't like to see him
put down in the media.
I'd like to say,
Harry's a great boy.
Give him a chance to prove it
and you'll see.
You sort of had
the the three Harry's,
really.
The sensitive little boy,
the fighting man,
and the idiot.
And I think people
love him for all
three of those things.
-He always smiles,
he has a positive--
-He's so happy every day.
-Everytime and that's why
we love him.
-Yes.
He looks gorgeous.
I think he's divine.
[Ingrid Seward]
I think it's probably very
difficult being the second son.
because you don't really have
a defined role.
You're just the joker
in the back.
The attention is
very much focused,
on the eldest child
as it was with William.
Diana made a very
conscious effort
not to allow that to happen
but of course it did.
 Harry became important,
 by being this big character
 by being this brave boy.
 I think it does
 effect these kids,
 when you look at
 princess Margaret,
she never found the happiness
she should have done.
She was always completely
in the shadow of her
elder sister
because her elder sister
was Queen.
And when you think of
the Queen's children.
And princess Anne said
she also used to feel
like an also-ran.
In January, 2005,
I ran a story about
Prince Harry,
a picture that we got
of Prince Harry,
going to a party,
actually with William.
And he was wearing
a Nazi outfit,
It created a huge stink,
William's reaction
to the Nazi story,
when he had a chance
to bend my ear about it was,
was very sweet, it was sort of
the way I'd like my big brother
to stick up for me
if I'd been put in the papers,
and obviously something
I've done
had upset people.
There is something
very special with
William and Harry,
they are extremely close.
And anything bad for Harry,
William will stick up for him
to the end of the degree.
And like wise Harry's very
protective of William
and now Kate as well.
Harry is party preacher,
he always will be.
So obviously he's going
to get caught out.
Prince Harry,
I won't say
dropped out of school,
but he came very close to
dropping out Eton.
He left with some rather
appalling exam results.
And there was delay
before he joined the army.
Which was really
his only option,
university wasn't
on the table.
In that period, I think Harry,
now by his
own admission would say
that he went through
a very bad patch.
And got himself in
all kinds of scrapes.
The Nazi outfit being
just one of quite a long list.
Punching a photographer
outside a night club
was another.
Harry learnt a lot
in that small period of time.
And I don't think
at that stage in his life,
anybody could have said
anything to him that he
would have taken notice of.
But luckily he's
grown up since then.
And of course there is
the notorious strip,
at Vegas which was
really, really wild.
Every misdemeanour
that Harry's had,
has sort of leaked
out to the press
because we all want to
see Harry, being Harry.
I think when it
comes to prince Harry,
it's obvious that there's
huge affection,
between the two brothers.
Even when he was very little,
when he was 10, 11 years old,
and he'd see the girls
starting to scream because
prince William was coming along.
Because he was that bit older,
and the could see that
he was very handsome.
He would tell prince Harry,
which would encourage
the girls to scream,
because he knew it really
embarrassed his brother.
So he seems to be
the more playful one,
prince Harry.
And again that would bare out
what the princess of Wales said,
in that panorama interview about
he's a more, sort of
more of a Spencer wild child
than William is.
And we see it, can't we,
in the pictures we see
and his antics
and the kind of things
he likes to do.
But I also get the impression
from the times we've seen
the two together,
talking to one another
and about one another.
Because they've spoken about
their closeness as brothers.
That you get the feeling
that prince William
for all his understanding
of the seriousness of
his role in future.
You get the feeling that
he makes it very clear
that he needs his brother
and he values that...
more perhaps child like,
fun element that's in his life.
Which I think is
a fantastic testament,
to both their parents.
But I just think it's really--
Because, whatever
the Diana story is
whatever happened,
it's just so sad that a really
young mother didn't see her
sons grow up.
And it's just such
a lovely legacy,
I think, for any mother
who's been lost to
to her children
Such a great legacy
that they seem so close.
Harry I think has warmed
slightly to the press
in recent years.
But I think both
of them deep down,
probably don't like us
that much,
and we can understand that.
Well, Harry and Kate
have a very warm,
affectionate relationship.
Harry grew up without
a sister, and without
a mother to a great degree.
And Kate gives him a feminine
perspective and a feminine touch
that he really was lacking,
I think growing up.
And it's really nice
for him to have that
kind of family member.
They're very close,
and in fact it's been
widely reported
that Kate has been
involved in helping Harry
select suitable young women
and advising him about
some of his choices.
I think whoever
Harry ends up with,
needs to get along with Kate
because Kate has a very strong
presence in Harry's life.
And has strong opinions,
so I think Harry very much
wants the kind of girl
that Kate would like
and I think her opinion's
very important to him.
I think he seeks
her advice about girls,
and ultimately he wants to
bring home someone
that's as widely
respected and loved
the way his sister-in-law is.
The more family
and children that
William and Kate have,
and the more, sort of,
mumsy she gets, the more,
people are going to want
naughty Harry.
So I don't see any
respite for him,
I really don't, I think,
people are going to
want more of Harry,
because he's still
the bachelor prince.
[narrator]
 From 2005 to 2010,
Harry was seeing
Zimbabwe national Chelsy Davy.
In 2012, he dated
Cressida Bonas for two years.
Chelsy and Cressida,
both, loved him very much.
And they both probably
felt different about it.
But neither of them
fancied that kind of life.
In 2016, it was reported that
 prince Harry was seeing,
 American super star
 Meghan Markle
 In 2017,
 they remained together.
 And sources closest
 to the prince say,
 Harry' is the happiest
 he's been in years.
In April, 2005,
William took the decision
to take Kate Middleton,
his new girlfriend
as she was then
on a skiing holiday
with her father
and with prince Charles
 in Klosters in Switzerland.
 Now of course,
 the fact that
two years in a row,
suddenly this pretty brunette
 that we didn't know
 anything about,
 was being brought on holiday
 again with prince Charles
 and William.
 That caused massive
 media attention.
 There was a frenzy, frankly.
And just about every
skiing photographer
across the Alps
rushed to Klosters
to try and get
pictures of Kate.
On that holiday I met up
with William and Kate
and Harry in a night club,
in Klosters, quite late
at night,
 but we had a long chat.
 And William wanted to know,
 quite bizarrely
 really I thought
 it'd be obvious,
 but he wanted to know,
why all of a sudden there was
just this enormous media storm
 around his little
 skiing holiday, in the Alps.
 In the course I found myself
 in a position where I was
 having to explain to,
 William I'm sure knows
 this better than I do, that,
 we were naturally
 interested in a girl,
that frankly can be a future
Queen of England.
 And I think he understood it.
 But I think he wanted
 me to tell him.
 And it was at
 that time that laugh--
 I remember him laughing.
 And just saying, well,
 I don't know what
 the fuss is about.
 I don't want to get married
 until I'm 28 or maybe 30.
 And I'm naturally
 not likely to forget
 those words, but it's
 quite interesting now that,
 five, six years on from
 that chance meeting
 in a night club.
Actually he was giving
me a scoop I just perhaps
didn't realize it at the time.
What we know about
the engagement was that
William whisked Kate off to
his favourite part of the world,
 Kenya, where he went when
 he was on a gap year,
Took her off,
hid the ring, in his ruck sack,
 and waited for
 the opportunity to sort of
finally, after all these years
pop the question.
Now Kate subsequently said
that she wasn't expecting it.
 If that's true,
then I'd really
question Kate's--
I don't know what planet
she's been living on,
but that was the most
eagerly anticipated moment
surely in royal history,
for the last of the 30 years.
[Katie Caroll]
 And when William asked Kate,
 to marry him,
 he made it very clear,
 that she wouldn't
 have to leave
 her family behind her,
 once she married
 into his family.
 He promised her that,
 they'd always stay
 a part of the family.
 And they have done,
Whether it's joining
the Queen at Ascot.
Or being on an important,
barge within the Queen's fleet,
at the diamond
jubilee celebrations.
Being the first visitors
to go and see prince George,
when he was born, even before,
the future king, prince Charles.
All of these things
are very significant
because they're William's
way of saying,
you are part of this family,
and we are going to include you.
A genuine open,
quite gentle, she seems like
quite a gentle person actually.
And seemed to be
pleased to be there.
Which I think has got to be
the absolutely central
thing that you,
if you're going to take on
a job like that,
you have to try and like it.
I think were Diana here,
I think she would approve
of Kate Middleton.
She might feel slightly
like some mother's do,
I don't want to lose
my son to any woman.
But I think she
would approve.
She would see
in Kate Middleton,
some admirable qualities.
And she'd feel that her son
would be safe with her,
I'm sure of that.
I think she would
approve of it immensely.
And I think it was
very telling,
that he chose to
give Kate Middleton
his mother's engagement ring,
And he said, I want my mother
to be part of this,
to be present.
 Not in a sinister way,
 of course not,
 not the ghost at the feast.
But there to enjoy
the celebrations
and the fun of it all.
Of a great occasion.
William's decision to give
Kate his mother's
engagement ring,
for outside observers,
we might look at that and say,
that wasn't a great marriage,
 really, on the grand
 scheme of things.
 I think what it means
 for William,
 has a far more
 intimate meaning.
 Prince William will
 rarely ever
 talk about
 his mother publicly,
He will very rarely
do anything, to kind of,
draw comparisons with
him and his mother.
And certainly hates
the thought that Kate
might be
seen as the
new princess Diana.
 But his decision to give her
his mother's engagement ring
I thought was very significant.
Because it sort of showed
William wanted his mother
on his big day,
to be right there at
the very heart of
what was going on.
And actually it was quite,
in a non soppy way,
I thought it was
quite touching
that he chose
to give her that ring.
Of course, if he decided
to go down to the
local jewellers,
and buy a little
engagement ring.
Then he would have been
accused of airbrushing
Diana out of history.
And certainly prince William
is never going to do that.
His mother is still
the most central
figure in his life.
He's chosen someone
who will tow the party line.
Who will do,
as he advises.
Someone who loves him,
and he loves her.
It's plain to see
they love each other.
I think it was very important,
to William that Harry approved
of his choice of wife,
And Harry and Kate
spent a lot of time
together before the wedding,
and they have
a fantastic relationship.
In fact, at the wedding,
Harry referred to Kate
as his sister,
the sister he always wanted.
So they have
a beautiful relationship.
And Kate coming into
that picture has only
added to things.
I think Harry very much envies
and looks at the relationship
William and Kate have
in the family.
I think he very much wants that
and we've seen from Harry
an attempt,
to get serious with
a couple of very
suitable young women
who ultimately were
not so enthralled about
becoming a princess.
And I that was a big strain
on the relationship
I think Harry's finding it
difficult to to find
his own Kate.
He likes care free, wild,
somewhat wild party girls,
who have a certain type.
And a lot of those girls
don't necessarily want the
strictures of being,
in the public eye as a royal.
They're quite wealthy
in their own right.
Some of them want
to be actresses
and they don't really
want the life that
Harry can give them
believe it or not.
[man]
Finally, are you feeling
a little smug today,
because you managed to do your,
stag do without
the media knowing.
Well, possibly,
It's quite good news always
to out fox the media.
But it was a military operation
and my brother and I are
very proud with how it went.
I thought you would be,
but now that you've done it,
can you give us a hint
of what you did.
Oh no Peter,
you know I can't do that.
I'm being tapped on
the shoulder but
were you,
did you have
a sore head at the end?
Again, you're not
getting any thing out of me
on that Peter, not a chance.
Just one last question,
I know Mick is going to
strangle me at the end of it,
Just under a month to go,
is there any
aspect to the wedding
that's giving you
sleepless nights?
The whole thing. [laughs]
How's that?
No, I was telling,
everyone I did the
rehearsal the other day
and my knees started going,
tapping quite nervously, so...
It's quite a daunting prospect,
but very exciting,
and I'm thoroughly
looking forward t it
but there's still a lot
of planning to be done
in the last four weeks.
[narrator]
 On April 29th, 2011,
 an audience of
 two billion people,
tuned into the royal wedding.
 The service was intimate,
 with the significance placed
 on the importance,
 of keeping the
 Middleton family
 close to the couple.
It was a modern royal wedding,
for a modern generation.
 And set the tone for
 the kind of royal family,
 and the kind of
 King and Queen,
 William and Kate will be.
 The Middleton family
 are paying for some
 of the wedding
 and the costs are
 going to be split
between the Middleton family,
the royal family.
 And the state costs,
 will only cover transport,
 and security issues.
 So all of the rest
 is being paid by
 the royal family
and the Middletons themselves.
On the day,
the ceremony begins at eleven.
 After that,
 there is the reception,
 hosted by the Queen
 at the Buckingham Palace.
Because it's prince William
it will inevitably be
a mixture of private
and state guests.
Hence the Queen being
the hostess of that one.
 And later there's a dinner,
 and dance that
 prince Charles is hosting.
 Again, at Buckingham Palace.
But we do know that the costs
are going to be split
those three ways,
 between the Middleton's,
 the royals and the state.
And again there are
comparisons not just with 1981,
 when that was the case,
 as well, that they--
 It was a time of austerity,
 in the 80's.
 The Queen
 and prince Phillips' wedding.
 Same again, 1947,
 there was a sense that,
 they couldn't have
 too showy a wedding,
 because people were,
 still living on rations.
It's interesting that
there is that,
sort of thread between
the three weddings,
And it was straight away
actually or really quickly,
after the engagement,
it was announced that,
 Kate and William
 were very keen
 to find a balance
 between a joyful, celebration,
 and sometimes lavish,
 everybody throws money
 at their wedding.
 And bearing in mind,
 the economic times,
 that we're in.
 I mean the fact that
 she's arriving in a car
 for example,
 and not arriving
 in the state carriage,
 and all of that.
 She'll leave in
 the state carriage
 but she won't arrive in it.
 That again, I think it says,
 this is different,
 this is modern.
We're young,
and bits of it,
we're doing our way.
[soft music plays]
[crowd roaring]
Well the birth
of Prince George
was really like
a national celebration.
[people screaming]
[crowd clapping]
-I've done that already.
-He's changed the first nappy.
[inaudible]
 Well, actually,
 covered the royal family,
 for 25 years.
 And the excitement around
 the birth of prince George,
surpassed most of the things,
I had covered actually.
 Even the royal weddings.
 It was a huge bonfire
 if you'd like, outside the
 Lindo Wing of the,
Saint Mary's hospital,
Paddington.
There were hundreds
of journalists there
as well as,
camera crews
and members of the public.
I am going to become an uncle,
for the second time hopefully
so it's very exciting news.
I can't wait to see my brother,
suffer more.
With any luck
if it's a girl then he'll
suffer even greater I think.
I'd love to see him
cope with that.
[narrator]
 Just two years after
 the birth of prince George,
 on May the 5th, 2015,
 princess Charlotte was born,
 and became the fourth
 in line to the throne.
 Well, I think when
 it was announced that
 they'd had a little girl
 it was a great cause
 of national celebration.
 Of course a little sister
 for prince George,
 the daughter
 that prince William
 had always wanted.
 The granddaughter that
 prince Charles had
 always wanted.
But actually, historically,
a really important little girl.
 Because she will hold her
 place in the lineage
 of succession,
 The antiquated male laws,
 were outcast, just before
 prince George's birth,
 in case he had been
 a little girl.
 Now, had those laws
 not been changed
and had the couple to
go on and have another child
maybe a boy.
Well, Charlotte would have
lost her place in succession.
 With the laws being changed,
 she will hold on to
 that position,
 and she is the fourth
 in line to the throne.
 And no little boy born
 here after will take
 that place away from her,
So she is historically,
very important.
Well, the Middletons,
are very actively involved
in the lives of
William and Kate,
and baby George.
In fact, they moved
into the home with
William and Kate,
for several months prior to
the birth of the new baby,
Just to oversee
the housekeeping staff
making sure things
were running smoothly
prepare Kate's
favourite smoothies,
whatever it was,
they wanted to
fill in the gaps for Kate.
As she prepared to become
a mum for the second time.
And looking after a very
busy toddler albeit
with a lot of help.
It has been
somewhat interesting
to know that Prince Charles
and Camilla have been
less involved with the
with the Kate, William family,
and it has been a matter of
some controversy.
There were quite a few
royal reports
from insiders there saying,
Charles was unhappy,
and felt he was being
shut out a bit,
in the life of prince George
 and that Karen Middleton,
 and her husband Michael
 had kind of taken over,
 usurped, his position,
 within the family.
And there have been
quite a few rumours,
 that Charles and Camilla,
 felt a bit slighted
 and would like to be
 more actively involved
 in the young family's life.
 Having said that,
 I think it's been
 demonstrated again and again
the kind of parent
and family that William wants.
 An he certainly
 going to be getting
 a lot more help
 and inspiration from
 the Middleton family
 than he is from
 his own father perhaps.
 That's not to say that
 Charles won't be involved,
 or have a part to play
 in Prince William's life.
But I don't think he's going to
be modelling father of
the year,anytime soon.
Well they managed to
score quite a hatrick
with princess Charlotte's name.
Charlotte obviously is
the feminine form of Charles,
but I think more importantly,
just a name that they
absolutely loved.
 But Elizabeth and Diana,
 were hugely important names,
 Elizabeth, a great tribute
 to the Queen
And Diana, which I think was
probably, the most surprising
of all the three names.
 there was
 a lot of speculation,
would they include Diana.
Many people thought
that they probably wouldn't
because it would be too much
of a millstone around
this child's nip.
but actually by including
it as the third name,
the tribute was there,
the sentiment was there,
but no one really knows
anyone's third name,
if you're lucky enough to
indeed have a third name.
So, it's there but
it's not too prominent.
So I think it was
a perfect choice,
and it's a very
beautiful name.
Well recently William
kind of cemented his role
as an ambassador for Britain
with his trip to the far east.
When he went to
China and Japan
he was greeted
the way a President
or a prime minister
would have been greeted.
By meeting with
the heads of state
of both countries,
in fact, he had a very
nice conversation with
the prime minister of Japan.
as well as the
governor of Tokyo.
When prince William
went over there,
he very much went to support
British, commerce industry
and trade
as well as his own charitable
causes, he actually spoke
out against poaching.
When he was in China,
in support of one of the
six charities he supports,
what was interesting
about the whole experience
is that William is
really emerging
into his own right as a
spokesman for Great Britain.
And he is stepping out from
behind his father and
grandmother's very long shadow.
As an individual who's a
representative of this
great country.
Kate will do her own thing,
she will establish herself
in her own way.
and I think she will be
a Queen consort,
 for the modern age.
I think we're going to see
a British royal family that
is scaled down to some extent.
I think some of the stuffiness
and the starch will be
taken out a bit.
 I think that they will be
 immensely good leaders,
 in this particular context.
 And I think that they will
 blow a breath of fresh air,
 through the rather
 stuffy corridors
 of Buckingham palace.
 And I think they will do
 extraordinarily well.
 What's important for
 William and Harry is,
the circle of trust,
it's quite difficult for them,
to trust a wider
circle of friends,
because they are very,
paranoid about leaks
to the media,
the like of people like me.
They don't like their private
lives out on the front pages,
they realized that
part of their life
has to be played out
almost in the theatre
of public opinion.
but they don't like that.
So the relationship between
William and Harry is crucial.
They don't spend
an awful lot of time
in each other's pockets.
I think we get this impression
that they're always together,
that's not the case
but they are extremely close.
So there is no doubt that
when princess Diana died
it was William that put that
loving arm around prince
Harry and helped him.
Through the difficult trauma,
of losing a parent.
And I think that brought
them even closer together,
than normal siblings would be.
But yeah, there's no doubt that
they are extremely close
He loves popping
around to the house,
at Kensington palace.
He loves spending time
with prince George,
But they're not together
all the time,
I think the media get this
impression that they're almost
all living together
because that's the way
it appears in public.
It's quite incredible
to believe
that it's nearly two decades,
since Diana passed
and I think what's so amazing
is how William and Kate
I credit have been determined
to continue her legacy,
and prince Harry as well,
let's not forget all the
amazing charity work
that he's done.
 Prince Harry said that
 when he was 18,
 he promised, he would
 continue the legacy of
 his mother's work,
and he's done that through
the amazing work that he does.
 In Africa,
 Kate is doing it by
 wearing that ring
 every single day.
 By naming her daughter
 the third name after Diana.
 William as well
 encompassing Diana
 in so many ways
The fact that he chose
the apartments at
Kensington palace.
I think all of these things
are very deliberate moves
to keep Diana's memory alive
Yes, she was
the people's princess.
The princess of Wales,
but she was William
and Harry's mother,
and I don't they ever want her
to be forgotten.
 And actually it's quite
 astonishing that there is
 no permanent memorial
 to princess Diana
 in this country.
 There is a fountain
 in Kensington Palace,
 but there's no statue.
And there's no
Diana memorial day.
And I think therefore,
it has fallen to
William and Harry
to do everything
in their power,
be it a concert for Diana,
be it naming their daughter
after Diana,
to make sure she lives on.
[William]
 She cared,
 she cared massively.
 We left in no
 doubt at all
 that we were the most
 important thing in her life.
 And that after that it was
 everyone else.
[Harry]
 Really caring and so sweet
 and very much
 missed by not only us
 but I think a lot of people.
