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it's 1982 it really is the beginning of

a new era

Time magazine votes the personal

computer Man of the Year children are

highly receptive to the new gadgets its

adults who are computer shy while the

world's press chase Princess Diana who

is a mother for the first time giving

birth to a boy William who will one day

be king

I am ready now to stick it out and these

different stuff there's so much I want

to do a prince who will become as

popular as the people's princess the

adulation that the young prince receives

during official engagements has in the

past appeared to embarrass him the

people of Britain want William as their

monarch sooner rather than later they

will be king and queen new surveys show

that more than half would prefer William

as the next monarch

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Prince William was born at st. Mary's

Hospital in West London and the nation

celebrated the new pence the

confirmation of the birth the

celebrations began to Royal Prince

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William is the first day to the British

throne to be born in a public hospital

just like his mother Diana he became a

target for the press from the day he

could walk his first day at school at

the age of three was a major event it

seemed half of Fleet Street were there

to record this small moment of history

so no worries about leaving his parents

the Prince sent off to meet his new

classmates with a determined swagger the

prince was introduced to his classmates

simply as William as he left school at

the end of his first morning Prince

William proudly held up a paper mouse

he'd made it himself and was taking it

home to show mum and dad when he was 8

William was sent to a private boarding

school

the boarding fees are more than 7,000

pounds a year Prince William is guarded

here by seventeen members of the royal

protection squad despite the close

protection squad William soon made

headlines when a fellow pupil whacked

him on the side of the head with a golf

club and the heir to the throne found

himself heading for hospital with a

fractured skull just weeks before his

ninth birthday up in his private ward d7

Prince William said to be comfortable

and well on his way to a full recovery

yet world presidents have been arriving

among them a well wrapped teddy bear

balloon when it was time to send William

to secondary school his mother and

father decided to send their eldest son

to one of the country's top schools Eton

his father the Prince of Wales went to

Gordon Stern said it was like serving a

prison sentence he's determined that

Prince William school days should be

happy ones

Eton is famous for educating kings and

political leaders who end up running the

world now he is of course not a normal

school boy nor indeed is Eaton a normal

school will he fit in easily or will he

face extra pressure because of who he is

it's not to say that unused to celebrity

or or royalty banned their royalty from

all around the world you go to the

school so of course he'll be special in

one one sort of wave by doubt boys in

the school or even masters will make

much of it but the press did the new boy

was under siege something had to be done

time for the chairman of the Press

Complaints Commission Lord wake up to

step in

Lord Wakeham took the opportunity of an

engagement at the London Press Club to

appeal to editors to respect the

complete privacy a Princes William and

Harry for two years the media has agreed

not to intrude on the princess while

they're in school but Lord awaken wants

the truce expanded and extended until

they're grown up I think you should

cover the whole time about having

education

there should be no intrusion into their

privacy William was nicknamed wills at

Eton and for two years he was able to

make his mistakes behind the school's

closed doors

the death of his mother changed

everything and thrust him back into the

limelight when disaster struck the royal

family were on holiday in Scotland for

the past five days most of the royal

family including the Queen have been 521

miles away at Balmoral leaving the

palace empty with no flag flying William

was also at Balmoral as his father tried

to protect him from the outpouring of

grief going on in London opinion here is

divided but increasingly today much of

the anger which was at first directed at

the paparazzi has been focused on the

Royals themselves well it must be very

very cold-hearted not to have a flare

gun I think it's a disgrace on whole

royal family as the family's popularity

plummeted the Queen tried to head up the

growing criticism between her last we

would say that the royal family have

been hurt by suggestions but they are

indifferent to the country sorrow at the

tragic death of the Princess of Wales

the princess was a much-loved national

figure but was also a mother whose son

Felicity through the Sons helped save

the day by spending time with those

grieving for their mother

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is a horse like Oh

it was a masterstroke and cemented

williams place as the successor to his

mother's position as the people's royal

william achieved good grades of eaten

enough to guarantee him a place at

university but he surprised everyone by

deciding to take a gap year he's chosen

to spend most of it in Chile with the

youth charity rally international

working on environmental and community

projects I wanted to do something

constructive I thought this is a bit

more of a wave-making trying to help

people out and meet a whole range about

different people from different

countries and at the same time helping

people in remote areas of Chile I raised

myself about five and a half thousand

fires did you Father kept in as well um

you might have helped slightly not very

much there has he been all the buddies

william was now 18 and for the first

time he began to reveal his true

feelings towards the press corps that

was now reporting his every move I think

Prince William has a great number of

reasons for disliking the media in

general and most particularly of course

when you think of what they did to his

mother Princess of Wales matters came to

a head when Princess Diana's former

private secretary

Patrick Jefferson decided to write a

book about life inside the royal

household

Patrick Jefferson seen here being handed

a card by Diana was a senior aide for 8

years in his book already being

serialized in The Sunday Times he

portrays her as a schema and a liar

well of course Karen I be quite obsessed

about it but our mothers Trust has been

betrayed and that's um even now she's

still being exploited but I'm I don't

really wanna say anymore enough tonight

Patrick Jefferson defended his decision

to go ahead with the book I'm sure that

when the whole book is read it will

eventually be seen to be truthful and

sympathetic to the memory of the late

Princess this is the first time that

Prince William has spoken publicly about

his mother since her death it's a sign

of the deep hurt that he and Prince

Harry clearly feel at the continuing

press coverage over Diana Prince William

for one now seems determined to put a

stop to it I think we very much seen a

royal for the new century very relaxed

not stage-managed

happy - Josh a bit with his father in an

informal way but not scared to say

exactly what he's feeling and certainly

not prepared to dodge the difficult

issues the difficult issues included

having a private life at st. Andrews

University where he enrolled under the

name William Wales

even before he'd attended a single

lecture of his art history course he

spent several minutes meeting the crowds

some of whom had waited powers for the

chance to wish him well this time the

media play ball and backed off gaining a

royal seal of approval I've been left

alone the media in a big way and for

that I am very grateful it's been three

life years or so so far where and I've

been very intelligent and being left

alone so study and do more anything

doing his own thing meant not thinking

too much about the throne he would one

day inherit must have you're caught in a

quiet moment about a day when you would

be king I look on the bright side of

everything there's no point being

pessimistic or being worried about two

new things because Frankie life's too

short looking on the brighter side

included having a love life William was

now a sex symbol adored by women of all

ages I've had lots of kids come up with

Oswald Grove how my grandmother's

stopped me and asked me and if they

nearly could places to buy underwear

Ivano you'd know I said hey I was a bit

stuck by that one and actually that was

the first one I didn't want him posted

on really caught me out like most

University students William wanted to

have fun but being a future king meant

keeping a low profile his friends coined

a codename Steve which enabled them to

talk openly about him and his exploits

without anyone else knowing who they

were referring to

to begin with obviously his fellow

students were very aware you know this

is Prince William and now he's taller

than some purposes a very regular

student there's an ordinary student life

he's worked really hard not to let his

presence disrupt his fellow students

existence being called Steve also helped

when it came to dating the young woman

who had first caught his eye as he

arrived at st. Andrews eighteen-year-old

Kate Middleton

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Prince William and Kate Middleton Metis

teenagers during their first year at

University their rooms in the st.

andrews hall of residence were close to

each other they became friends but it

wasn't through love at first sight it

took this costume and charity modeling

show for Williams head to be well and

truly turned he paid 200 pounds for her

to take to the camp she sort of she wore

something a bit risque with such dignity

you couldn't help but notice her and say

yes that was perhaps the time and he

really sort of silver as a little bit

special it was to be 2 more years before

the press got something to really get

their teeth into William and Kate

together on a Swiss ski slope three

months later they both graduated

William's grandmother the Queen was

there as he collected a geography degree

and Kate won in history in his own words

it is time now for the big wide world

but today Williams family like any other

well almost

came to say a proud farewell to a place

that has allowed him a more normal life

than any royal in history and partly of

course it's been about this woman

captain

very soon Kate Middleton could be one of

the most famous women in the world

and yet she must try to forge a career

on her own terms this was a proud day

for the family and an occasion with its

own quirky traditions like being patted

on the head with a leather pouch

containing a fragment of the trousers of

a 16th century preacher peculiar you

said it for two years Kate tried to

forge a career on her own terms that the

media wouldn't leave her alone before

Kate Middleton had even got engaged the

media fascination was evident little

wonder that the palace is today compared

her experience to that of Diana lessons

were learned from the tragic end of the

Diana's story but clearly not by

everyone it wasn't long before Kate had

had enough her solicitors wrote to the

Press Complaints Commission saying she

was being continually harassed probably

the biggest difficulty the royal family

has in fulfilling its role these days is

the fact that there is us on the 24/7

global media but William and Kate didn't

shut the media out altogether they were

photographed hugging in public for the

first time in Switzerland speculation

about engagements marriage stopped when

William followed royal tradition and

joined Britain's armed forces 12

grueling months of training go into

making an officer and being second in

line to the throne doesn't entitle you

to an easy ride and this

counterinsurgency training with William

taking part in a hostage dilemma at a

vehicle checkpoint before cadets can

graduate the mistake part in operation

winter victory a tough 10 day exercise

in Cyprus a traditional ceremony at the

end sees the recruits putting on their

regimental berets for the first time

when William made the grade Kate was

there to watch is passing out parade

it was her first official royal

engagement and the rumor mill went into

overdrive talk of a wedding has always

been poo pooed by the prince himself no

I know he's a royal watchers say palace

officials are equally dismissive today

despite the denials some retailers

jumped on a royal bandwagon

to William and Kate's dismay they were

utterly astonished that willwerth had

done this and they say there is nothing

on the cards at the moment of an

engagement announcement behind the

scenes the relationship had become

strained and the couple had agreed to

split

they looked so good together who didn't

think that in Kate William had found the

perfect future bride ITV News has

learned that Kate and William had in

fact split before and at this time it's

final he has the feeling that you know

with his parents marriage breaking out

that he just doesn't want to make a

mistake but I think it's more the fact

that he just cannot make the commitment

right now in his life now that they were

both singled William and Kate were

regularly photographed out and about

apparently enjoying themselves

separately it was William he blinked

first William suddenly saw these

pictures in the newspapers that are

leaving nightclubs with quite eligible

young men and thought I've made a bit of

a mistake here but William couldn't do

much to rectify the mistake even if he

wanted to his royal duties were

gathering pace as he picked up

qualifications fit for a future king

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when the moment arrived the Prince of

Wales are simply beaming with delight he

was here in his dual role of Air Chief

Marshal and of course proud dad William

was now a Royal Air Force helicopter

pilot with something to win over the

woman he now realized he loved if you

want a surefire way to impress the

girlfriend then landing your helicopter

in her back garden might be hard to beat

William who was recently awarded his re

F wings touched down in a field in the

grounds of Kate Middleton's family home

earlier this month the Prince was flying

a Chinook helicopter similar to this one

it was the same aircraft he used on a

separate occasion to pick up brother

Harry on route to a stag party William's

military graduation coincided with Wars

being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan

like his brother Harry he yearned for

action on the front line I didn't join

the forces to be like I said the last

cycle for mollycoddled or treated any

different and I think his future head of

the Armed Forces pretty important I was

getting ELISA the opportunity to be

credible and to do the job that I signed

up for and to do the best I can for

William there was to be no opportunity

to do the best he could but Harry was

able to do two tours in Afghanistan

the guys who do the same job was asked

to be shot out on the ground I don't

think there's anything wrong with us

being shot as well and yeah people back

home I have issues with that but we're

not special and the guys out there are

simply son William was special and the

closest he got to action was as an Air

Force search and rescue pilot

it was totally apparent to me

straightaway how important the job is

every day you come into work and you

don't quite know it's going to happen

it's quite exciting in that sense some

predictable but at the same time it's

great that you get to go out and

actually save someone's life or at least

make a difference to someone you know

when you know that they're in trouble

that difference was soon clear on his

very first mission

William was the copilot in the rescue of

a heart-attack victim from an offshore

oil rig as Britain struggled to recover

from the Great Recession caused by the

collapse of the banking system the royal

family broke the news everyone was

waiting for I think is that best news we

heard for a long long time

after a session now is depression at

least he'll have something to celebrate

to have a royal wedding next year is so

important for the tourist trade not

everybody was happy

Britain was still in austerity mode

every penny was being counted if it's

anything like Charles and Di's next

year's wedding is going to be a huge

event and huge royal events mean huge

security bills so who exactly is gonna

pay for all this here's a clue it starts

with a tea and it ends with ax payer it

would be really inappropriate for them

to have a lavish ceremony at a time like

this when there's such huge pressure on

public finances shall we he said William

and Kate married in Westminster Abbey on

April the 29th 2011 and with that the

most anticipated moments of the most

watched events ever fleeting and like

the best of shows leaving the audience

wanting more

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almost immediately they got more ladies

and gentlemen I know announced that the

princess captured dollar is now on sale

Thank You royal memorabilia by the

truckload from coins to condoms value of

this royal wedding to the economy is six

hundred and twenty million pounds in

extra spending by tourists and Brits

alike but William is more than a

moneymaker being an heir to the throne

usually means your life is not your own

Prince William is now at a crossroads in

his military career he must decide

whether or not to stay in uniform the

alternative of course is to follow his

father's footsteps from the military to

full-time royal duties William didn't

follow but he did leave the military to

become a full-time Air Ambulance pilot

as part of the trauma rescue team in

East Anglia starting a new job can be

intimidating even for a future king she

wants a very very happy to be here

first-day nerves William is the first

royal in direct line to the throne to

take on a paid and taxable job in

civilian life he's earning 40,000 pounds

a year here he doesn't need the money

and will give it all to charity the move

drew criticism from those who believed

he was avoiding his duties as future

King full-time role role is banded

around quite a lot and no one actually

really knows what that means but I think

I could still manage to do my

commitments and my responsibilities as

far as I can but equally do something

that I think is incredibly important and

that will you know prove me hopefully in

good stead for the future the future for

William is uncertain

apart from his grandmother the Queen

Britain's longest-serving monarch he has

become the most popular member of the

role

family Williams got him him to be a good

king

many people in Britain now believe the

long term prospects for the monarchy

would be improved if William and Kate

were next in line they will be king and

queen new surveys show that more than

half would prefer William as the next

monarch in the meantime William and Kate

must get used to being international

superstars photographed and fitted

wherever they go I think they're quite a

nice role model for billion for the

younger generation but Williams personal

battle with the media is far from over

his children have become targets and he

wants it stopped the paparazzi pursuit

of Prince George amounts to stalking

raising questions of not just harassment

but child protection and security would

you be happy if there was a series of

photographers who were always following

around taking pictures of your children

who are as young as two and as babies

last week police found a photographer

using the boot of his car as a hide to

keep the Prince under surveillance and

it's claimed other children have been

used to your George interview if you

can't have any privacy in the world

um I can't see anybody wanting to be a

member of the royal family it's not

worth it your soul gets destroyed

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