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- It's a wonderful moment
for a warm and loving couple

who got a brand new baby boy.

(regal instrumental music)

- There is blood in their veins

that has been coursing through

royal veins since before 1066.

- Can you get radio
through here? (laughing)

- [Voiceover] There aren't
many 90-year-old men

who are voted as
still being stylish.

- Time hasn't changed him,

age certainly changed him,

and, in fact, if anything else,

he's probably become,
what we know in Britain,

a grumpy old man.
(beep)

(regal instrumental music)

- Charles grew up always
wanting to please his father.

He'd been sent away
to school in Scotland

which he hated.

He was lonely, he was bulled.

- Prince Charles gave quite
a number of interviews,

and we never heard
him speak before.

- I'm very well informed,
I must say. (laughs)

- I think, literally, it
changed his image overnight,

from this boy with jug ears

into, sort of, a rather
delightful, whimsical character.

- [Voiceover] He had quite a
long period of bachelorhood

where he couldn't
seem to settle down,

and suddenly this
beautiful young girl

came into his life.

- When asked whether Diana
was in love with Charles,

she immediately
said, "Of course",

and he said, "Whatever love is."

- [Voiceover] Today's
edition of The Sun

dedicates its first
five pages to a story

about the prince's alleged
romance with a fellow student.

(crowd cheering)

- Prince Harry is
more like his mother.

And he's probably
the most popular

member of the royal family
at this moment in time

because people warm to him.

- I don't believe
there's any such thing

as private life anymore.

I'm not gonna sit here,

when everyone
knows about Twitter

and the internet
and stuff like that.

- People now regard them as
part of the celebrity culture.

They're not.

They think of themselves
as part of history.

(dramatic music)

(tranquil music)

- [Voiceover] Prince Philip
is head of the royal family

and patriarch of the princes.

Known as a no-nonsense and
tough, gruff military man,

he occasionally oversteps the
line of political correctness

(beep)
with both feet.

(dramatic music)

His rise from a titled, but
unprivileged, background

to become the greatest supporter

of the longest reigning
monarch in British history

is the stuff of story books.

But, Prince Philip's
story is true.

- He was born famously on
a kitchen table in Corfu,

and he was evacuated
in an orange box

on board a British destroyer.

- Through the 1920s, Prince
Philip lived in exile

with his parents, in Paris.

Then, at the end of the 1920s,

his parents split up.

His mother had a breakdown,

ended up in an asylum
in Switzerland.

His father floated down
to the South of France

where he ended up with a
girlfriend living in a boat.

- [Voiceover] Following
his time at Gordonstoun,

which specialized in seamanship,

Prince Philip left in 1939
to join the Royal Navy

as a cadet.

- He was astonishingly
good looking.

He's always maintained
a very fit profile,

and he looked, what he was,

a young Greek god.

- So, he wasn't like
anyone else, I think,

the Princess Elizabeth
would have come up against.

- The first notable
meeting was the one

when King George VI
and Queen Elizabeth

went with their children,
Elizabeth and Margaret Rose,

to see the sailors
down at Dartmouth,

and Prince Philip, because
he was their cousin,

was charged with
looking after them.

- She met Prince
Philip, of Greece,

as he then was in 1939,

when he was a
dashing naval cadet

at Dartmouth Naval College.

She'd met him before
at family occasions,

but this was the occasion when,

by her own account,

the spark was struck.

- Very dashing
and very handsome,

and I mean, quite unusually,

she actually thought this
man is wonderful, you know,

as a 13-year-old could think,
you know, handsome prince.

And never really
had any affection

for any other man ever since.

- [Voiceover] After completing
his initial training

at Royal Naval
College Dartmouth,

he joined the battleship
HMS Ramillies,

as a midshipman during the
early stages of World War II.

- [Voiceover] From that moment
on, as far as I can make out,

Princess Elizabeth kept a
photograph of Prince Philip

on her desk throughout the war.

- [Voiceover] Prince Philip
enjoyed a glittering war career,

joining the battleship
HMS Valiant in Alexandria

in January 1941.

After his promotion
to sub-lieutenant,

he was appointed to the
destroyer, HMS Wallace,

(gun firing)

based at Rosyth for
convoy escort duties.

Further promotions
meant that he was

appointed second in
command of Wallace

at the unusually
early age of 21.

(guns firing)

HMS Wallace took part of the
allied invasion of Italy,

with the landings on
Sicily in July 1943.

- [Voiceover] Prince
Philip was very alpha-male,

quite controlling,
and very positive,

and I don't think
Princess Elizabeth

ever met a man like
that in her life.

She was use to getting up
with lord this and lord that,

and people being very
differential to her,

and suddenly someone comes along

and tells her what to do,

and drives to fast and
does all kinds of things.

I think he was just so male.

She was just so incredibly
in love with him.

- And there wasn't
another character,

there were various English dukes

who were rather dim and
they were foreigners,

even more dim, or inappropriate

because they'd fought for
the Germans in the war.

And Prince Philip had
the inestimable advantage

of having fought on our
side in the Royal Navy,

and therefore was okay.

(dramatic music)

- [Voiceover] With news
of growing preparations

for the royal wedding,
come these notable pictures

of the royal family,
accompanied by

Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.

- People at court weren't
sure who this man was.

Princess Elizabeth was
a perfect princess.

She was beautiful.

She was well brought up.

She knew how to behave.

Nobody was quite sure
about Prince Philip.

Who was he?

Where were his parents?

(ubeat music)

- He always said to me

that he was essentially
Pan-European.

I don't know what he was.

He certainly, he is
categorized as being

filled with Greek,
but he doesn't have

any Greek blood in him at all.

- The general
public thought that

Elizabeth and Philip's marriage

was a fairy tale made in Heaven.

Hundreds of thousands
of people gathered

outside the palace gates because
it was the one good event

to cap off what had
been, quite frankly,

a dreadful decade.

(dramatic music)

- [Voiceover] Homage and
rejoicing, side by side

with glowing pageantry,
marks Britain's greatest

royal occasion since
the coronation.

- The royal wedding
was seen as a, sort of,

new Elizabethan Age.

The country was in
a terrible state.

It was very austere,
right after the war,

and suddenly there's
this beautiful bride,

because Princess Elizabeth
was incredibly beautiful,

and this handsome naval officer

were going to carry the country

out of the doldrums of war,

and present them
with a golden future.

But the feeling was very
much of their wedding,

it was like a fairy tale.

(dramatic music)

- [Voiceover] Before long,
the calls of the people

were answered, as onto
the famous balcony,

came the bride and bridegroom.

- The time of the wedding
of Princess Elizabeth

and Prince Philip, his
sisters were not invited,

simply because they were Germans

living in Germany
with German husbands,

one of whom was
still going through

the denouncification process.

So, they had to be careful.

- I think the British
public, on the whole,

regarded the marriage
of Prince Philip

to the future queen

as a welcome blessed relief

from a time of
considerable austerity

and awfulness and there
was more rationing,

paradoxically,
after the war ended

than had been during
the war itself.

- [Voiceover] And the
young princess gathering up

her ration coupons
to buy the lace

for her wedding dress.

- You've got this
wonderful romance,

this dashing naval officer

marrying the girl next door

who was everybody's sweetheart,

who was, then, to be our queen.

It's strange, that now he's cast

as a cantankerous old
crust and a right-wing,

etcetera, etcetera.

When he first sprung
upon an astonished world,

he was regarded as
a dangerous lefty.

- There were a lot of
people in English society

and courtiers, in particular,

who weren't sure
who this man was.

- [Voiceover] Prince
Philip's mediocre rise

in the Royal Navy continued

when he was appointed
commander in 1952.

- Philip insisted,
after the marriage,

that he should pursue
his naval career.

She wanted him, very
much, to do this.

The royal family agreed,

and so he actually
went off to Malta,

where the British
Navy had, still,

a large contingent
in those days.

He was given his own ship.

She went out there,
not as as princess,

but as the captain's wife,

and for the first, and
only, time in her life,

she drove her own car.

She went to hairdressing salons.

She met friends in
cafes for coffee.

She had something
resembling an ordinary life,

and it had been
her wish and hope

that that could continue
for several years.

(gentle music)

- It was obvious that she
meant to enjoy herself.

She had no restrictions.

She could move about
on her own in Malta.

It was a (indistinct
speech), you know.

I think, officially,
she was the boss,

but, in private life, I think

Philip ran the show,
that's my impression, yes.

He seemed to boss her around
most of the time, you know,

and I shouldn't say this,

but I've heard him swear at her.

(gentle music)

(ominous music)

- The king's unexpected death

changed everything,
not only for Elizabeth,

but for Philip, too.

(ominous music)

- As a couple, they'd
enjoyed a blissful existence

in Malta where the Duke of
Edinburgh was then based,

as an officer in the Royal Navy,

and their first
tour, so to speak,

was brought to an abrupt halt

when they heard news
of the king's death.

Where in Kenya, of course,
it was the Duke of Edinburgh

who broke the news to
Princess Elizabeth,

and understandably,
she was devastated.

People were bowing to her,

and she was the new queen,

and for both of them, it
really brought to an abrupt end

what had been as
normal a marriage

as possible for a royal couple.

- Prince Phlip is a military
man through and through.

If he hadn't married the queen,

he would have been a highly
successful naval officer,

probably would have reached
the rank of admiral.

- [Voiceover] Suddenly, the
queen superseded him entirely,

and I think for the
dynamics of the relationship

that was quite
hard to deal with.

- He had the potential of having

a very good naval
career ahead of him.

He served with distinction
in the second World War,

first in the Meditteranean.

The untimely death of the
queen's father, George VI,

meant that Philip had
to hang up his uniform

and be there just two
steps behind the queen.

- And, as anyone who
would know Prince Philip,

would completely understand

he likes to earn
everything that he does.

He did not like the idea

of suddenly being appointed

admiral of the
fleet, field marshal,

and marshal of the
Royal Air Force,

without having done
anything to earn it.

- When Prince Philip
went off on his solo

voyage on Britannia,
it was very early

in the marriage, and
people were saying,

"Oh, is there trouble
in the marriage?"

- There have always been rumors

about Prince Philip and girls.

I remember Prince
Philip saying to me,

"If I'd fathered
as many children

"as I was suppose
to have fathered,

"I wouldn't have had
time for anything else."

- [Voiceover] The thing about
the queen and Prince Philip

is they're very,
very well matched.

I mean, she took on
somebody her own size.

- I went to the theater
with them one evening

and sat in the
royal box with them,

and the interval came, and I
stood at the side of the room

with the Duke of Edinburgh,

and he looked across
the crowded room,

towards the queen, it
was quite a small room,

and she was surrounded by people

meeting her and bowing
and shaking her hand,

and he leaned against the wall,

and he was holding a drink,

and he caught her eye,

and across the crowded room,

as she smiled at him,

he merely lifted his
glass and toasted her.

- I must confess, My Lord Mayor,

that it came as a
bit of a surprise

to realize that we had
been married 25 years.

(people laughing)

Neither of us are much
given to looking back,

and the years have
slipped by so quickly.

- He always said
that his main job

was to make it possible
for his wife to reign.

- One of the ways
he supports her

is to run all of the
royal estates for her.

He's been extremely energetic

at Windsor and Sandringham,

Balmoral and so forth.

- [Voiceover] The queen
sees it as her duty

to walk at the pace of the
slowest person in the land,

so that nobody in the
country feels left behind.

- So, there is the Duke
of Edinburgh, thrusting,

going forward,
trying to do this,

trying to do that,
trying to change this,

and there's the
queen, quite steadily,

walking along.

- The queen is
the head of state,

but Prince Philip is the
head of the household.

He's the head of the family,

so people have to answer to him.

- We have the good fortune

to grow up in happy
and united families.

We have been fortunate
in our children.

(light-hearted music)

- [Voiceover] Prince
Philip did always have

an odd upbringing
and an odd childhood.

He didn't have any
serious role models,

as far as parenting
was concerned.

This later came to be
a bit of a handicap

when it came to bringing
up Prince Charles

and the other royal children.

- The Duke of Endinburgh
simply didn't get his son.

He didn't understand.

He had a very difficult
relationship with Charles.

They didn't speak to one another

as normal father and son.

- If he's your father,

it must be quite difficult.

There's no doubt his
relationship with Prince Harry,

Prince William, his grandsons,
they find him helpful

and caring which is
not the impression

you get with his own sons.

- Maybe he always
found Prince Charles

slightly exasperating,
and the fact

that he wasn't able
to make more of a go

of his marriage
to Princess Diana

was at least as
much his son's fault

as his daughter-in-law's.

- I think the queen, herself,

will be the first to
admit Prince Philip

isn't somebody who
minces his words.

He's got an opinion
on everything,

and he doesn't
mind expressing it.

- That's just his style,

because he doesn't
do small talk,

and he doesn't suffer fools,

and he likes having
scientific conversations.

He likes having
deep conversations.

- I've always found
him incredibly funny.

I've met him a
number of occasions.

I found him quite sympathetic

and extremely erudite
and very clever person.

He's very interested in
new technology, new ideas.

- I mean, can you get
radio through here?

(crowd laughing)

- He's very funny.

Very outspoken, says
exactly what he thinks.

- If you're Prince
Philip, you feel obliged,

somehow, to break the ice,

and for 60 years,
he's been going down

receiving lines, shaking hands

and, as he's said to me himself,

trying to make people laugh.

And he does that
with a merry quip.

And just once in a while,

it goes awry.

- Outside the railway station,

he met somebody, and he said,

"Where are you from?",

and he said, "Swansea, sir."

And Prince Philip said,
"You're a long way from home.",

and the headline
the next morning,

in the local newspaper was,

"Prince Philip and
the Saltz Welshman".

- He suggested to a chef
that was collecting an award

that it was no wonder
he was a good chef

because he was certainly
the size for it,

and this man was enormous,

and wasn't offended at all,
thought it was hilarious.

- Well, I think
Prince Philip actually

gets a bit of a raw deal
in the way he's presented.

He's seen as this
gruff chararcter

that makes comments
that he shouldn't say.

- This scheme is not a cure,

it's a preventative.

Once you've got a
soccer hooligan,

you've got a soccer hooligan,

and somebody else
is gonna have to

try and cure him of that.

The purpose of the
scheme basically

to try to catch
people while they

are moderately civilized
and then keep them that way.

- From the Duke of
Edinburgh's point of view,

he'll suggest that
he's only saying

what other people think,

and the slitty-eyed comment,

or even to the aborigines,

"Do you still throw
spears at each other?",

might be a question others
might wanted to have asked.

- I'm frequently accused
of meddling in affairs

that have no concern,
or no concern of mine.

I'm always told I
mustn't take sides.

(audience laughs)

And unlike, not brother-in-law,

but another chap I mean,

(audience laughs)

I don't even get onto
the electoral roll.

(audience laughing)

And the fact, to use a currently
okay word of the press,

I must not be controversial.

- It's terribly
easy for journalists

to latch on to an
alleged failing.

I think he's been
rather unfairly treated.

- I've discussed Prince Philip's
gaffes with him, endlessly,

and he finds it quite depressing

that they are constantly
being reported,

as he says, he sighs sometimes

when he goes on a foreign trip

to find there will
be reporters there

because he knows all
their really waiting for

is another gaffe.

- And I think most of us,
with a great deal of sympathy,

for those of you who have
got to, at the sharp end,

who are trying to do your
best to make life civilized

and tolerable for the locals.

- He's a straight-forward,
old-fashioned,

military officer that
doesn't suffer fools gladly.

He suffers from foot-in-mouth
disease, sometimes,

and makes comments that,
maybe, he shouldn't.

- Totally useless for a
lot of well meaning people

to wring their
hands in conference

and to point out the
dangers of pollution

or destruction of the
country's countryside,

if no one is willing or
capable of taking any action.

- [Voiceover] But,
the truth of it is,

he comes from a different age.

- He's just a man
of his generation

who says what he thinks,

and sometimes people
don't like it.

- Impassioned speeches
will be so much

effluent under the bridge,

unless it is followed by
drastic political action.

Time is fast running out,

and it remains to be seen

whether those in
political authority

can shoulder their
responsibilities

in time and act quickly enough

to relieve a
situation which grows

more serious every day.

(applause)

- I think the reality
is, a lot of the time,

that time hasn't changed him,

age certainly
hasn't changed him,

and, in fact, if anything else,

he's probably become,
what we know in Britain

as a grumpy old man.

- [Voiceover] Despite
his advancing years,

Prince Philip is still
known for his tireless work

to support the queen,

and his youthful
attitude, which allows him

to bridge an age gap
of more than 70 years.

- [Voiceover] So,
how would you sum up

the eye-den-tu-kit young
person you might meet,

are they enthusiastic,
are they lazy,

are they inquiring--

- They're some of all.

I don't even want to
generalize about young people,

very dangerous.

- [Voiceover] There's
no sense you have

about less willing to
take risks nowadays--

- There's a great
danger about making

generalizing about young people

because you can find somebody

who's the exception,
or not just somebody,

but a whole group of
them, who are exceptions.

I think what happens is that

when a group of young people

like binge drinkers appear,

everyone's, "Oh, my God, the
young people are terrible,

"they've all become
binge drinkers."

Well, they haven't,
it's that one group

who were mods and rockers,
a few generations,

you're probably one yourself.

I mean people go through--

- [Voiceover] Do
I look like one?

(laughing)

- Well, you know,
you never know.

People become quite
civilized when they grow up.

- What's very interesting
about the queen

and the Duke of Edinburgh

is they are very
consistent people.

What you see is what you get.

They're not performers.

- And for the queen
herself, when you consider

that she's surrounded
by a lot of lackies

and perhaps a lot of yes men,

actually having
a man in her life

to tell her what he
thinks of what she's doing

is probably a refreshing change.

- [Voiceover] Prince
Philip's personal thoughts

on his family and on half
a century of marriage.

- It's been a challenge for us,

but by trial and experience,
I believe we have achieved

a sensible division of labor

and a good balance
between our individual

and joint interests.

Of course, after 50
years of experience,

I find there's a great
temptation to give advice.

(audience laughing)

The trouble is that no too
marriages are quite alike.

However, I think that the
main lesson that we've learned

is that tolerance is the
one essential ingredient

of any happy marriage.

It may not be quite so important

when things are going well,

but it is absolutely vital
when things get difficult.

- There's been documented
rows that have taken place

between the queen
and Prince Philip.

I think he once suggested

that she wasn't driving well
or that he wasn't driving well

and he said that she should
get out of the car and walk.

I think there's been
the kind of rows

that you would
expect after 60 years

of marriage in any couple.

- All to often, I
fear, Prince Philip

has had to listen
to me speaking.

(audience laughing)

He is someone who doesn't
take easily to compliments,

but he has, quite
simply, been my strength

and stay all these years.

- Contrary to an awful lot
of people's predictions,

the monarchy appears
to be as strong

as it has ever been,
and I think that has

an awful lot to do
with Prince Philip.

I think, without him, maybe

the institution might
have failed altogether.

(dramatic music)

(crowd cheering)

- [Voiceover] The Prince
of Wales is heir apparent

to the throne, the first
in line to become king,

even though he will
probably be among

the eldest princes
ever to become king.

- If the queen lives
as long as her mother,

Prince Charles won't
come to the throne

until he's 77.

- [Voiceover] An
extraordinary Monday morning,

and the nation
prepares to celebrate.

- [Voiceover] Prince Charles
was born at Buckingham Palace,

on the 14th of November 1948.

- He was take away from her
when he was only 10 days old

because she developed measles,

after giving birth to Charles,

and in that crucial
kind of bonding period,

between mother and child,

they didn't have that.

- [Voiceover] Following
Queen Elizabeth's succession

to the throne in
1952, he became both

heir apparent and
Duke of Cornwall.

- He was, then, very
largely looked after

by nannies, and the
queen had a nanny

who, frankly, terrified her.

She was called Helen Lightbody,

and she was a dragon,

and the queen
really didn't enjoy

going into the nursery.

So, that was another
factor that kept the queen

away from Charles.

So, Charles grew
up really bonding

much more closely
with his grandmother,

the Queen Mother, than
ever with his mother.

- She was, quite simply,

the most magical

grandmother you
could possibly have,

and I was utterly
devoted to her.

(solemn music)

- [Voiceover] Consigned
to the care of his nanny,

he became more introspective,

welcoming his mother
back with a handshake

rather than a hug.

- When the queen came
back from that long tour,

and got of the train
at Paddington Station,

and her son, who's
been dying to see her,

came up to her,
she didn't kiss him

or put her arms around him.

She shook his hand.

What does that say?

That says, "Where's my mummy?"

(solemn music)

- Charles grew up always
wanting to please his father,

always wanting his
father's approval,

and never quite
managing to get it.

The Duke of Edinburgh
simply didn't get his son.

He didn't understand.

He didn't think
boy's should cry.

It was always a stiff upper lip,

and manage your emotions,

and Charles didn't do that.

- [Voiceover] In
1958, Prince Charles

became the first Prince
of Wales since 1936,

after the abdication
of King Edward VIII

to marry Wallace Simpson.

- [Voiceover] Now Jeff Shirley
reporting on Gordonstoun

as Prince Charles
arrives with his father

the school's most
famous old boy.

- He'd been sent away
to school in Scotland

which he hated.

He was lonely, he
was bullied there.

- [Voiceover] He would have
been much happier somewhere

like Eton where he would
have been close to his family

and close to his
grandmother, particularly.

- [Voiceover] He had
a miserable time,

miles away from everything
that was familiar to him.

- But, the general
concept was that actually

the press, on a
whole, didn't really

know where Gordonstoun was,

and probably in their
minds would have had to

clamber over
mountains of heather

in order to find this place.

- If you're going to sent
someone to Gordonstoun,

like Prince Charles, it's
gonna have an impact on him,

whereas, for Prince
Philip, fantastic,

absolutely loved every
minute of the Spartan

the way that the system
was arranged by Kurt Hahn,

and he loved the
whole philosophy.

(solemn music)

- Charles grew up a
very insecure boy,

who turned into an insecure man.

He doesn't have a
lot of confidence,

and Lord Mauntbatten, who
was the queen's uncle,

recognized that Charles was
slightly adrift as a teenager.

He was not a happy child,

and Mauntbatten took
him under his wing

and started to prepare
him for the future,

and to give him some confidence,

and to make him feel valued.

(solemn music)

- Prince Charles gave quite
a number of interviews,

and we had never heard
him speak before,

and he showed a very engaging,
kind of, rather dry humor,

and I think it literally
changed his image overnight,

from this, rather, sort
of uncomfortable boy

with jug ears with his
hands behind his back

trying to imitate his father,

into a sort of, rather,
delightful, whimsical

character of his own.

- I do believe I have it.

I have a bite.

I'm letting out a little
slack now, a little slack now.

Yes, taking up the string.

Taking up the string.

This is most exciting,

most exciting ladies
and gentlemen.

I've never seen anything
quite like it before.

I think got quite
a large one here.

It's very, very
large indeed--(yells)

- [Voiceover] Charles comes
forward to be invested

with the name, style,
dignity, and honor

of Prince of Wales
and Earl of Chester.

The sword for his earldom.

(choir singing)

- [Voiceover] The
investiture of Prince Charles

was a state occasion
before the Welsh people

at Caernarfon Castle on
the 1st of July 1969.

- [Prince Charles] I
Charles, Prince of Wales,

do become your liege
man of life and limb

and of earthly worship,

and faith and truth
I will vow unto thee

to live and die against
all manner of folks.

- [Voiceover] The acts
of investiture, homage,

and fealty are complete.

- [Voiceover] Despite being
criticized by the radical

and anarchist elements
of the swinging sixties.

Charles spent many
months in Wales,

trying to win over his critics.

- [Voiceover] I believe
you were stopped

in the streets not
too very long ago

by group of anarchists
students of Mr. Peter Dawson,

who said, "The rich
Duke of Cornwall

"should give away all
his land and money."

How do you react to
that sort of thing?

- You're very well informed,
I must say. (laughs)

How do I react to
that sort of thing?

Well,

I suppose I try and look upon it

with a certain
amount of sympathy.

I mean, I think it's
wrong to just, you know,

say, "You're wrong, therefore,

"I don't want to listen to you."

I try understand what
they're getting act

and why they're getting at it.

(upbeat music)

- [Voiceover] During the
1970s, Prince Charles

became known as a playboy

for his liaisons with
beautiful and eligible women,

and his easy charm with
music and movie stars.

(upbeat music)

- [Voiceover] Prince
Charles was really seen

as a bit of an action man,
and having had a string

of beautiful girlfriends.

And he had quite a long
period of bachelorhood

where he couldn't seem to
settle down, and it was actually

attracting the wrong
kind of headlines.

Was he a playboy prince?

Was he not able
to make decisions?

Was he not able to connect?

(upbeat music)

- There was always
a great fascination,

I suppose inevitably, in
Prince Charles' girlfriends.

- And every time Prince
Charles went out with somebody,

the press screamed, "He's
gonna marry her, is this it?"

- Because everybody
knew she would be

Princess of Wales, and
one day would be queen,

if he chose to marry one
of these young ladies.

- [Voiceover] The obsession
with Prince Charles' girlfriends

became a frenzy when
a quiet, demur girl

named Diana Spencer came
onto the scene in 1980.

- I'm old enough to remember
working on a newspaper

and going one
evening to a theater

where Prince Charles
had taken a young lady.

- Suddenly, this
beautiful young girl

came into this life,
and it really improved

his PR enormously.

- Everybody loved Diana when
they first encountered her.

When she went up to
Balmoral, that first time,

the queen and the Duke
of Edinburgh were there,

many members of the
family were there,

plus friends, and
they all thought Diana

was absolutely magic.

- Although she had some royal
connections in her family,

she wasn't the usual
type of girlfriend

that I remember Prince Charles
accompanying to places.

- That marriage came
about in a strange way.

It came about
through granny power.

His grandmother,
the Queen Mother,

and her grandmother, Lady
Fermoy, got together,

and they agreed that
whoever Charles married

would have to be a virgin,

and Lady Fermoy assured
the Queen Mother,

that Diana was a virgin,
so the Queen Mother said,

"Then that's the one."

- The problem for Diana Spencer

and what she really
fell victim to

was a time warp.

We all like the idea
of the royal family

being like everybody else,

but if they get too
like everybody else,

then what's special about them?

By the 1970s,

when Diana Spencer
appeared on the scene,

most people couldn't care less,

whether the bride
walking up the aisle

was a virgin or not,
in ordinary life,

but when it came to
the royal family,

we still expected this
old-fashioned view.

She was a virgin.

This made her a very
prime candidate.

- [Voiceover] Following
their fairytale romance,

the Prince of Wales
married Lady Diana Spencer

on the 29th of July, 1981,

in Saint Paul's Cathedral,

and Diana became
Her Royal Highness

The Princess of Wales.

- Both the queen and
the Duke of Edinburgh

were delighted, I
think, at the prospect

of Diana marrying Prince
Charles, when it happened.

She was a beautiful,
charming, delightful,

innocent young
girl, and they had

high hopes for the relationship.

- I thought the engagement
interview was terribly sad.

When asked whether Diana
was in love with Charles,

she immediately
said, "Of course.",

and he said, "Whatever love is."

- I'm amazed that
she's been brave enough

to take me on. (Diana laughs)

- [Voiceover] Diana,
I suppose in love?

- Of course.

- Whatever in love means.
- [Diana] Yes.

- It must have
hurt her enormously

when he said that

because what would
our wives had said

if we'd said on the day of
our engagement, publicly,

that whatever love is.

(solemn music)

He was sending a
message to Camilla,

- But poor Camilla's problem

was sort of catch 22,

When she met Prince Charles,

she fell in love, they
went to bed together,

but that, sort of,
automatically ruled her out

as a future queen.

- [Voiceover] Prince Charles
and Diana Princess of Wales

had two sons, Prince William,

born on the 21st June 1982,

and Prince Harry,

born on the 15th
of September 1984.

The cracks in the relationship
of Charles and Diana

began to appear
in the late 1980s.

- She was troubled
because of her childhood.

At the time, Charles didn't
know what the problem was.

She lived in kind
of a romantic world.

She read Barbara
Cartland romantic novels,

and I suspect that
she simply thought

royal life would
be like something

out of a romantic novel,

and she had no support system,

no family of around her.

- That's what went wrong more
than anything with Diana.

Nobody tells you
anything at all.

One of the astonishing successes

that Prince Philip has been
and has made of his life

is that nobody told him either,

he instinctively
knew how to behave.

Other interlopers aren't told,

and I think that was ultimately

the great tragedy
of Princess Diana.

- Charles simply didn't
know what on earth to do.

He didn't know how to help.

He thought that
it was his fault.

He gave up the
friends that Diana

said she didn't like,

got rid of staff
that she didn't like,

did everything that
he possibly could

to make her happy.

He couldn't make her happy,

nothing could make her happy.

She feed herself, emotionally,

on the adoration of strangers.

And this caused a huge
problem with Charles

because, rather than
being a support to him,

she out-shown him.

He would make speeches,

and the press
ignored his speeches,

and they talked about
Diana's hairstyle

or her clothes, and
could she, perhaps,

be pregnant again?

Charles found that
incredibly frustrating.

- The queen was
immensely distressed

by what was happening
in the marriage

of Charles and Diana
for a number of reasons,

but particularly to the
happiness of the couple

and their ability to be
parents to William and Harry

whom she loved dearly
as a grandmother,

but also who represented the
future of the royal family.

- The queen is very
aware of current trends.

She lives in the world
like the rest of us.

She's not remote in
some castle some where,

and she knew that if
Diana was that unhappy

that the marriage really
would have no future.

- Nobody sees the queen
without an appointment,

but Diana use to wait
in the page's vestibule

until the queen's last
visitor, if you like,

had left, and then she'd
dash in before the next one,

and she'd just cry, and
say, "Everybody hates me,

"and I hate my mother.

"I hate my sister,
I hate my husband."

And the queen, not
use to this kind

of moral confrontation,
just didn't know

how to handle Diana.

- It would be a great
mistake to think that she

blamed Diana for
what went wrong.

If anything, I believe,

that she and her
husband, Prince Philip,

put more of the blame
on Prince Charles,

and Prince Charles, of course,
as we since discovered,

was already committed,
emotionally, to another woman.

- [Voiceover] The Prince of
Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles

seen together in
public quite clearly.

- Charles and Diana and Camilla

and Fergie and
Andrew, it's endless

how the royals go on at bedtime,

and that creates problems.

- When he was interviewed
by Jonathan Dimbleby,

and asked whether he'd
committed adultery,

he, again, told the truth,

"Yes, but only when the marriage

"had irretrievably broken down."

And for some strange reason,

the great British public chooses

not to believe him,

but to believe Diana's
version that Camilla

was always there, that
there was no chance

of it ever working.

- I've come to the conclusion

that really it would have been

far easier to have two wives,

(audience laughs)

to have covered both
sides of the street.

(audience laughs)

That time everybody
was saying, "Goodluck",

and, "Hope everything
goes well", and,

"How lucky you are to be
engaged to such a lovely lady."

But, my goodness, I was
lucky enough to marry her,

and we had many, many--
(audience laughs)

It's amazing what ladies do
when you're back's turned.

(audience laughs)

- It quickly went wrong.

- The first
inclination that I got

the marriage had gone wrong

was a palace maid, her
name was Michelle Rowes,

went to their room at Balmoral
one morning to clean it up,

and every single thing
in it had been smashed.

It was wrecked,

and Charles had slept on his
floor in the dressing room.

I mean, it was, from that
moment on it was obvious that...

I mean all couples have rows,

but this one never ended.

- Well before the actual
breakup of the marriage,

things were
beginning to be said.

I can remember a very
senior royal advisor

talking to me about it a bit,

and it wasn't until
one particular writer

and the Princess got
together and she decided

that she wanted
her story out there

that the whole thing exploded.

- I wrote a book
14 years ago called

Charles Victim or Villain,

that caused a huge fuss.

I set out to discover whether

he had never stopped
loving Camilla

and had used Diana
and abused her.

The conclusion I came
to was that there

were no villains at all.

They were all victims.

It was not Charles' fault
that it hadn't worked.

He was a needy individual.

She was a desperately
needy individual,

and they were unable
to help each other.

- I wish to inform the
house that Buckingham Palace

at this moment, issuing
the following statement.

It reads as follows,

"It is announced from
Buckingham Palace

"that, with regret, the
Prince and Princess of Wales

"have decided to separate.

"The Royal Highnesses
have no plans to divorce,

"and their constituntional
positions are unaffected.

"This decision has
been reached amicably

"and they will both continue
to participate fully

"in the upbringing
of their children."

- [Voiceover] Diana continued
to live at Kensington Palace

and bring up William and Harry,

but her lifestyle and
choice of partners

was beginning to destabilize,
not only the family,

but also the monarchy.

- We knew she was
seeing Dodi Fayed,

son of Mohammed Fayed
the owner of Harrod's,

and I think a lot
of people thought

that was a very
strange relationship.

- She went with the boys
to stay with the Fayeds

in the South of France.

Diana was photographed
cavorting with Dodi.

The boys found that
quite uncomfortable.

There was a lot of publicity.

They went back to England,

and flew up to Scotland
and joined their father,

and they started
the family holiday.

(solemn music)

- I was asleep in bed
and the phone rang,

and one of my
bosses said, "Nick,

"there's been a
car crash in Paris.

"Dodi Fayed is
dead, and we think

"the princess is dead, too."

(solemn music)

So, I obviously,
got up, got dressed,

went straight to the studio
in the middle of the night,

and then was really

on television, I have to say,

for the next week, really.

- [Voiceover] At first
ambulance crews managed

to keep the princess
alive, but her heart

had stopped beating by the time

she was admitted to hospital.

The surgeons fought
for two hours

to restart her heart.

At 3 o'clock this
morning, London time,

they admitted
defeat and announced

that Diana, Princess
of Wales, was dead.

- It was Charles' burden
and responsibility

to break the news
that their mother

had died, to William and Harry,

which, I think, must have been

enormously difficult.

- The week after Diana
died was a long week

from a media point of view.

The queen was up at Balmoral.

She happened to have
staying with her at the time

Prince Charles, Prince
William, and Prince Harry.

What she was doing
was giving strength

to her grandchildren
so that they were able

to come down to London
and go through the

huge ordeal of their
mother's extremely public

global funeral.

- The one thing that Diana
will be praised for forevermore

was giving those
children real love

and security in
their early days.

- The people who loved
her were the staff.

She would often take William
and Harry down to the kitchen

to have their tea, and
they wanted fish fingers

and things like that,

but if they had it upstairs,

she would bring both
boys down to the kitchen,

afterwards, to say thank you.

- [Voiceover] Camilla Parker
Bowles had a long-standing

relationship with
Prince Charles,

from being at the center
of a bitter marital feud,

to gradually increasing her
association with Charles

after Diana's death.

- She had grandmother
who'd been a mistress

of a previous Prince of Wales.

When they first met, she
actually said to Prince Charles,

"My grandmother slept with your
grandfather, how about it?"

And what young man is
going to say no to that?

(crowd cheering)

(regal instrumental music)

- [Voiceover] Prince Charles
and Camilla Parker Bowles

were married on the
9th of April 2005.

- [Voiceover] He was always
quite tense with Diana

because there was always
another fight around the corner,

another intense
moment, another drama,

but with Camilla, she
understands the man,

having been his
mistress, having been

the love of his life
for 50 odd years.

- [Voiceover] Charles has done
a huge amount in his life.

He's never had any kind of
message of congratulations

from his parents.

- [Voiceover] The queen, I
think, frankly, feels that

Charles is a bit too grand
for the rest of the family,

the way in which he intervenes,

talking to government ministers.

his espousing of quite
controversial causes.

He's dangerous for the monarchy.

- [Voiceover] Prince Charles
has not found it easy

bridging the divide
between Prince Philip's

stiff upper lip view of manhood

and his own more
sensitive outlook.

As he nears his 70s, Prince
Charles still retains

his desire to assert
his individuality.

- It's also extremely
nice to know

that I share a birthday
with a biscuit.

(indistinct speech)

(audience laughs)

- He does really care about
this country and its people.

For instance, the
Gulf War, Afghanistan,

that's why they're always
going and visiting troops.

- When I was a
Royal Correspondent,

never any doubt that he
knew what my job was.

Wasn't always easy dealing
with Prince Charles,

but subsequently, I
have come to admire

the fact that we have
a Prince of Wales

who is not afraid,
sometimes, to speak his mind.

- The queen can't do that.

Her opinions on anything have
to be very, very careful,

very, very neuteral.

- Over the past century,

we have made it
into a rubbish dump.

The effluence we pour
headlessly into its waters

are a threat to its
delicate ecological balance.

- [Voiceover] Prince Charles
remains a king in waiting,

ready to make his mark
on the British monarchy.

- Whether he will still be
willing to speak out on things

I rather doubt.

I think he knows that
the job of being monarch

is to pursue that
strictly neutral line.

- [Voiceover] Due to the length
of Queen Elizabeth's reign,

Prince Charles is
unlikely to evoke the same

sense of anticipation which
greeted the young queen

at the dawn of the
second Elizabethan Era.

That honor will likely fall
to his son, Prince William.

(gentle music)

Prince William is the elder
son of the Prince of Wales

and the late Diana
Princess of Wales.

On the 29th of April 2011,

following his marriage
to Katherine Middleton,

the title, the Duke of
Cambridge, was conferred

on him by the queen.

(slow string music)

Prince William
was born at 9:03pm

on the 21st of June 1982
at Saint Mary's Hospital,

Paddington, London.

- Prince Charles came out
and he was so excited.

I remember climbing
over the barrier

and going up and
shaking his hand,

and saying, "Congratulations."

- [Voiceover] Can you tell
us how the princess is?

- She's very well, thank you.

- [Voiceover] And your son?

- He's in excellent form,
too, thank goodness.

Looking a bit more
human this morning.

(crowd cheering)

- Who wants it which way first?

This side or that side?

(playful music)

- [Voiceover] After attending
Mrs. Myner's School,

the duke became a pupil at
Wetherby School in London,

from the 15th of January 1987

until the 5th of July 1990.

From a very early age,
William began to realize

the challenges that
lay ahead of him.

(gentle music)

- Kid said to
William, "Excuse me,

"is it true that you
know the queen?",

and William, sort of, just
looked at him and said,

"Don't you mean Granny?"

- I remember one
picture I've got of him,

in fact, he's trying to
run on the polo field,

and his nanny's grabbed him,

and she's scolding him,

and William's face
creases into tears,

and I remember what
happened afterwards.

He run to his mother,
and she sat on his lap

and she soothed him.

- William and Harry
grew up in this very

tricky household.

They absolutely
adored their mother.

Their mother
absolutely adored them.

And so did their father.

- Prince Charles
proved to be a loving,

understanding, caring father

of whom the boys
are immensely fond.

- If Prince Charles
would have listened

to Princess Diana
he would have seen

the characters of his
children were different

and would require
different types

of attitudes toward the
way they should be raised.

I think that was certainly
reflected in the way

that he raised, as a father,
Prince's William and Harry.

She was wanting the children
raised a certain way,

and she got that.

She would take
them to McDonalds.

She would take
them on the streets

to see homeless people,

and to try and wake them up

to the fact that they
are special as princes,

but they've got to appreciate
the other side of life.

(screaming)

- [Voiceover] The one thing
that Diana will be praised for,

forevermore, was
giving those children

real love and security.

- She wanted them to
mix with other children.

She wanted them to
have fun to be free.

Prince William looks
a lot like his mother

in many respects,
but his character

is more Windsor than Spencer.

(upbeat music)

- [Voiceover] From
September 1990

the duke attended Ludgrove
School in Berkshire,

for five years, until
the 5th of July 1995.

(upbeat music)

Over time, Prince William began

to show more of his mother's
easy and warm character.

From July 1995, William
attended Eton College

to study geography, biology,
and the history of art.

For the young prince, it
would be a year to forget.

He'd grown use to
his family constantly

being in the media spotlight,

but now they were
making headlines

for all the wrong reasons.

- The royal family has
reflected family life in general

because behind palace gates,
they are a normal family

with normal problems
and normal emotions.

In fact, they're under
more pressure, really,

than the rest of us because

they're moves are
all scrutinized,

and if there's problems
in the relationship,

the cameras are
there to pick it up.

And that very much
happened, of course,

with Prince Charles and Diana.

- I asked Prince Philip, and
he said, "We're a family.

"We are a family.

"These things
happen in families."

And they cope with
it as a family would,

and their reaction
to it is that of

parents of their
particular generation.

(solemn music)

- The princess died
about four hours

after the terrible
accident that befell her.

(solemn music)

- Charles went, in the
early hours of the morning,

and told them the news.

Who knows what went
on in that room.

It must have been utterly,
utterly devastating.

(solemn music)

The public pressure for the
queen to make an appearance

was such that she and the boys

came outside the
gates of Balmoral

(solemn music)

and looked at all the
flowers and tributes to Diana

which must have been
devastating for those boys.

- [Voiceover] Prince William,
I just remember how brave

he was in the subsequent
days after she died

because his moving gestures

when he went to shake
hands with people,

thanking them for
their kind words.

It was so brave

- Thank you so much.

- [Voiceover] He had sort of
a natural grace and nobility

about him to rise above
his own personal trauma.

(solemn music)

- [Voiceover] Prince William
was only 15-years-old

when Diana, Princess of Wales

was killed in a
car crash in Paris

on the 31st of August 1997.

(horses' hooves clomping)

Together with Prince Harry,

he walked behind their mother's
cortege at her funeral,

creating one of the
most poignant images

of the 20th century.

- Whenever I see an
image of the princes

behind Princess Diana's coffin,

and I think when any
of us see those images,

I imagine everybody feels
just incredibly protective

and devastated at the
level of their loss.

- There was a time
when Prince William

wasn't terrible keen to
walk in the procession

because he thought
the whole thing

had turned into a
terrible, ghastly,

media shenanigans

but the night before,
Prince Philip said to him,

"I think when you're older,

"you'd regret it,
if you didn't walk

"in your mother's procession,

"and I will walk with you."

And that's an immensely
supportive grandfather.

I think he got it
absolutely right,

and there's a moment, if you
look at the footage of that,

that they're passing
under white wall,

and they think the
cameras aren't on them,

and Prince Philip
sort of leans over

and says, "How's it going?"

That's what you need
from a grandfather

on an occasion of
that kind, I think.

- I was outside
Westminster Abbey,

and it was just
quiet, it was quiet,

thousands of people were there,

and you could just
here the clip-clop

of the hooves of the horses
as the coffin went by,

and all you could hear
was the sobbing of people,

and I mean, not weeping,
but absolute sobbing.

- Never being able to
say the word mommy,

again in your life,
sounds like a small thing,

however, for many, including me,

it is now really just a word,

hollow and evoking
only memories.

- [Voiceover] As soon
as the funeral was over,

they went to High Grove
with their father.

Nobody watched television,

nobody read any newspapers.

They just did things with Dad.

Suddenly, the world
could see that, actually,

they loved their father,
which they always did,

but there was
always this feeling

that maybe he wasn't
a very good father,

but he always was a good father.

- [Voiceover] This summer's
photo corps with the princes

is the first at the family's
country home, High Grove,

cameramen getting a rare glimpse

at such close quarters.

Prince Charles and
Prince Harry waited

outside the house to see
Prince William drive up

in a car lent to
him for lessons,

even royalty must use L-plates.

- [Voiceover] His
appearances for the press,

such as driving a car
for the first time,

seem slightly awkward,

as though he still regarded
them with suspicion

for their hounding
of his mother.

- The photo corps
here at High Grove

is arranged on the
basis that the princes

are then left alone to enjoy
the rest of their summer.

- [Voiceover] Whilst
Prince William grew up

in the grandeur of
Kensington Palace,

Kate's childhood home
was this Victorian semi,

in the village of
Bradfield Southend.

- [Voiceover] A red rose
for Prince William tonight,

after a day in which
he'd captured the hearts

of the Scottish people.

The once media shy prince

found himself thrust
into the limelight

as never before.

- The things you
have to do, nowadays.

It's really hard.

- "The things you have to
do nowadays.", he said,

appearing at a new dance
center in Edinburgh.

(crowd cheering)

Earlier, in Glasgow,
the 19-year-old

was greeted like a pop star,

as he arrived at
one of the city's

most deprived housing estates.

- [Voiceover] Having grow
up with his every move

being followed, Prince
William was determined

to spend his student years
away from the media spotlight

and without the
trappings of royal life.

- [Voiceover] Royal by birth
but with the common touch,

he charmed these pensioners,

telling them he was looking
forward to university.

(speaking softly)

- Yeah, it's very nice,
it's got a very nice

community feel about it.

- [Voiceover] After a gap year,

in which he visited
Chili, Balize,

and African countries,
Prince William chose

to study at Saint Andrews
University in Firth, Scotland.

(upbeat music)

The ancient town
of Saint Andrews

on the east coast of Scotland,

seemed a perfect choice,

small, remote,

and with a close-knit
student community.

It also lay claim to
being Britain's top

match making university.

(upbeat music)

(crowd cheering)

- [Voiceover] This small
university town of Saint Andrews

had never seen anything like it.

Prince William greeted
like a local hero

as he arrived with his father.

Even before he attended
a single lecture

of his art history course,

the studen prince
was a celebrity.

(upbeat music)

- Before coming
to Saint Andrews,

Prince William said he
wanted to be treated

like an ordinary student,

but with half the
town turning out

to see him, that seems
a distant prospect

for this rising star
of the royal family.

- Very nice to meet you.

Thank you very much.

(upbeat music)

- There was an agreement,
a gentemen's agreement,

between the palace
and the press,

that they would leave him alone

to study without
endless intrusion

from paparazzi photographers.

- When we did this agreement,

I never thought it would stick

because I know
the British media,

and they can't help themselves.

But, I suspect, that
they did have the memory

of Diana in their minds,

and of her tragic end,

and of the way that she
had been constantly hounded

by the paparazzi,

and I don't think
the British media

wanted another
Diana on its hands.

- [Voiceover] This
historic agreement between

the palace and the
press meant that William

would have the chance to
spend his university years

as just another student,

albeit a very famous one.

(upbeat music)

- In the ensuing years, he
didn't go off the rails.

He grew up, he went
through school.

He got good academic results,

and he found a nice,
attractive girl, at university.

- [Voiceover] William
would spend his first year

living at Saint Salvatore's
Hall of Residence,

known locally as Sally's,

and it was here, that
he and Kate Middleton,

would finally meet.

For their second
year at university,

William and Kate shared a house

on one of Saint Andrews'
most exclusive streets,

renting a top floor apartment
with two other friends.

It was here that their
romance blossomed,

but it would be
another 18 months

before the relationship
was revealed in the press,

when the couple were
photographed together

on a skiing holiday
in the Swiss Alps.

- [Voiceover] This was Prince
William at the weekend,

enjoying the slopes at
Clo-stis with his father

the Prince of Wales,

in full view of
the photographers.

In return, the paparazzi
and their clicking shutters

were expected to withdraw,

leaving the royals to enjoy

the rest of their
holiday in private.

That's why Prince William
is said to be irritated,

and Palace officials furious

about today's
edition of The Sun.

Ironically, this
dispute comes at a time

when Prince William
appeared to be

increasingly relaxed
with the press attention,

happy to joke with
the photographers,

many of whom are known
on first name terms.

- [Voiceover] (indistinct
speech) last night Will?

- I might have done Arthur, yes.

(photographers laughing)

- [Voiceover] What do you think?

- Disappointed, but we'll
still watch what happens,

so I'm quite happy about that.

- [Voiceover] Arthur
Edwards, The Sun's veteran

royal photographer,
says he believes

Prince William
wasn't, necessarily,

an unwilling victim.

- [Voiceover] Today's
edition of The Sun

dedicates its first five pages

to a story about the
prince's alleged romance

with a fellow student.

The girl, said to
be the prince's

first serious girlfriend,
is Kate Middleton.

She is flatmate of the
prince at Saint Andrews.

There wasn't to be
anymore denying after that

because it was a picture
for everyone to see.

This was a couple,

and "Will Gets His
Girl", I think,

was the headline, and he had,

but truth was he'd had
for for quite a time.

(applause)

- [Voiceover] William Wales.

(applause)

- Kate's life was going
to change unbelievably.

She was a sort of normal girl

who went to Malborough College.

We knew, even then, that
she was going to become

one of the most photographed
women in the world.

- [Voiceover] Yeah, quick,
quick, quick, quick, quick.

- An interview,
Charles is there today.

(soft talking)

(solemn music)

- They had a few
splits along the way,

but they have been
a very solid couple

for a very long time,

which is in contrast to

what Charles had to put up with

in terms of the
relationship with Diana.

(solemn music)

- [Voiceover] Prince
William, and his girlfriend

Kate Middleton have split up.

ITV News can reveal it
was a mutual decision,

and although they've
broken up before,

this time it is final.

(solemn music)

- At the time, I wasn't
very happy about it,

but, actually, it made
me a stronger person.

You know, you find out
things about yourself.

(solemn music)

I really valued that time,

although I didn't think
it at the time, (mumbles)

(laughing)

- I'm sure.

- [Voiceover] Wemberly
Stadium, 1st of July 2007,

on what would have been
Princess Diana's 46th birthday,

William and Harry
hosted a special

tribute concert
for their mother.

Backstage the princes
rubbed shoulders

with hip hop royalty and the
recently reformed Take That,

but rumors were
growing of another

eagerly anticipated reunion.

- There was a lot of speculation

about whether Kate and William

were back together as an item,

and the day before the concert,

I asked William whether
he would be inviting Kate.

- (stammers) I have a lot
of friends that are coming.

- You can clearly
comment on this one.

- Wow, that is so shocking.

- I've got lots
of friends coming,

so everyone's gonna
be there that night,

and it's gonna be a
great night, basically.

- That's very well
avoided, William.

(laughing)
- Very diplomatic.

- [Voiceover] Rather than the
lightning, fairy tale romance

of Prince Charles and Diana,

Prince William enjoyed
a more conventional

relationship with
Katherine Middleton,

before marrying her on
the 29th of April 2011.

(crowd cheering)

(upbeat music)

- There she was in
her beautiful dress,

flashing Diana's
ring and, generally,

enjoying every minute of it.

Although there
were nerves there,

it was a very happy
occasion in their lives,

and it was the happiest I'd
actually ever seen William.

- First time since 1660

a major member of
the royal family,

who's in line to the throne,

is marrying a commoner.

- Prince William is now
very happily married

to a young lady who
seems absolutely

suitable in every way.

I mean, this is
the royal family.

It's a fairy story
all over again.

- There's less sense of the
weight of Burke's Peerage.

What matters, I
think, is that she's

capable of becoming queen.

♪L-O-V-E

♪L-O-V-E

- [Voiceover] There
had been some serious

training at Sandhurst.

This was the prince
in action at Cypress.

The 44 week course is
notoriously grueling.

William obviously wasn't
sparred the heavy lifting.

- [Voiceover] The Duke
of Cambridge joined

the Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst

as an officer cadet
and was commissioned

as an army officer
in front of the queen

at Sandhurst in December 2006,

joining the Household Cavalry,

Blues and Royals, as
a second lieutenant.

(upbeat band music)

- Unlike so many
younger generations

who are at odds with their
parents and grandparents,

you have a couple of young men

who are clearly devoted,
not just to Charles,

but to their grandmother.

- [Voiceover] There's
no doubt that the queen

and Prince William have
a very good relationship.

- [Voiceover] William, we know,
looks up to her, enormously.

When he was at Eton,
which is the school

right beside Windsor
Castle, he would regularly

go and see his grandmother,
have tea with her.

She would introduce him
to aspects of her work.

- [Voiceover] Prince
William went on to train

as a RAF search and rescue
pilot with the Royal Air Force,

graduating as a fully
operational pilot

in September 2010.

(bell ringing)

- Hear ye,

Hear ye,

Hear ye,

On this day,

the 22nd of July

the year 2013,

we welcome

with humble duty,

a future king,

the first born of
his Royal Highness

the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge,

the third in line to the throne.

(upbeat music)

- [Voiceover] Two years
after their wedding,

the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge

were delighted to announce the
birth of their first child,

George Alexander Louis,

on the 22nd of July 2013.

Their second child,
Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.

was born on the 2nd of May 2015.

Both children followed
a new royal tradition,

by being born at Saint
Mary's Hospital, Paddington.

(upbeat music)

- He's a very loving
and happy family man.

He adores his
little boy, George,

and new daughter, Charlotte.

There's no doubt that
the whole influence

of Kate has been great.

(gentle music)

(regal instrumental music)

- I think he's divine, actually.

- Oh, yes, smiles.

- He's so happy,
that's why we love him.

(crowd cheering)

- [Voiceover] There is no
doubt that Prince Harry

has the common touch.

Ever since he was born

on the 15th of September 1984,

Harry has been known
for his impish humor

and ability to live
on the wild side.

After attending
Mrs. Mynor's School,

Prince Harry became a pupil
at Wetherby School in London,

and then joined his
older brother, William,

at Ludgrove School in Berkshire.

(engergetic music)

- [Voiceover] A guiding
hand from mum, at first,

as Prince Harry, in formal
blazer and trousers,

helps inspect a guard of honor,

then the transformation
into fatigues

and up the double for a taste
of life in the queen's army.

- Prince Harry, I think,
is the most natural

and honestly open person

that is a member
of the royal family

at this moment in time.

When he meets people,
they warm to him,

not because he's a
prince, necessarily,

but because of who
he is as a person.

(laughing)

(speaking softly)

- [Voiceover] It was his first
formal public engagement,

first chance to learn there
are some princely perks

when your mother is
commander-in-chief

of the light dragoons.

While he was off having fun,

the princess was
telling the troops

her son is fascinated
with all things military.

Prince Harry joining in,

too young, yet,
to be joining up.

- [Voiceover] Prince Harry
also followed his brother,

William, to Eton College.

- He's a far more
serious-thinking guy

than people take him for.

He may not be
academically the most

accomplished, but this is a
guy that can fly helicopters.

He's been to the South Pole.

- [Voiceover] Eton's most
famous pupil returned

to the classroom today,

but Prince Harry may
find it a little hard

to concentrate on his studies.

His weekend was spent coming
of age in every sense.

An 18th birthday
marked by his emergence

as the protector of
his mother's legacy

and as a royal figure
in his own right.

It was no coincidence
that the prince's

first solo engagement
should be a visit

to Great Ormond
Street in London.

Princess Diana was president
of the Children's Hospital

until her death just before
Harry's 13th birthday.

Five years on, he's
pledged to continue

the charitable work she started.

Harry's decision
to take an interest

in his mother's work
has been encouraged

by the Prince of Wales,
no doubt relieved

that his youngest son's
problems with drink and drugs

seem to be behind him.

- He certainly can
be, if you like,

a playboy prince
if he wants to be.

I think he's more
serious than that.

He's had his playboy moments.

I've had run-ins with
him where he's tried

to tick me off over stories.

- You sort of have the
three Harrys, really,

the sensitive little boy,

the fighting man, and the idiot.

(crowd cheering)

And I think people love him
for all three of those things.

- He's probably the most popular

member of the royal family
at this moment in time.

You wouldn't think it,
before going on camera

or before making a public
speech, he's very nervous,

but actually that adds
to his naturalness

and adds to the charm.

- Harry has his
more difficult job

of defning what a
spare should do,

and copying his mother,
who had a similiar

identity problem next
door to Prince Charles,

seems to be very shrewd.

- I think it's
probably very difficult

being the second son
because you don't

really have a defined role.

You're just the
duke or in the pack.

- Get this on camera.

(William yells)

- [Harry] You forgot
your boots. (laughs)

- Oh my God, that's
not a classic--

- You can use, borrow
my ones that Marcus got.

- The attention is
very much focused

on the eldest child,
as it was with William.

I mean, Diana made a
very conscious effort

not to allow that to happen,

but of course, it did.

- I'm not just doing it
for them, I always do it.

I always clean them.

I played yesterday, I
didn't have a chance.

(William laughs)
Get someone else

to do it for you.

(laughing)

(whimsical music)

(sports announcer
speaking softly)

- [Voiceover] Prince Harry,

Prince Harry shoots
and he's two --

- [Voiceover] After
completing A-levels,

he took a gap year.

It was during this
time, that Prince Harry

highlighted the plight
of orphans in Lesotho.

Prince Harry went on to
co-found the charity, Sentabale,

with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho,

in memory of their mothers.

Like all royal
princes, Harry decided

to pursue a military
career by entering

the Royal Military Academy
in Sandhurst in 2005.

Harry was commissioned
in April 2006

as a second lieutenant
in the Household Cavalry,

Blues and Royals.

(helicopter blades whirling)

- We're very lucky
indeed to have

so many families, I
do, as a I meet them,

for instance you have
two or three sons

in the armed forces or one
kind or another, incredible.

As a parent, you
worry the whole time.

I think if you're
out here, perhaps,

you think you're getting
on with everything.

It's not the same, but I,

for everybody left behind,

it's ghastly.

(slow string music)

- [Voiceover] Despite
his father's reservations

for his safety, Prince
Harry saw active service

during two tours of Afghanistan,

finishing his second assignment

as an Apache helicopter
co-pilot and gunner.

- It wasn't done in the
wrong way, but it was just--

(slow instrumental music)

(gun fires)

I was always hoping
to get forward,

and I got here on Christmas eve,

and going from bullet magnet to

anti-bullet magnet,

mostly guys were pretty
bummed that I was here,

'cause nothing was
happening for the first

few days that I was here,

but things are
picking up again now.

(gun firing)

- [Voiceover] Do
you mean you have

and you will kill the enemy?

- Yeah, so a lot of people have.

We fire when we have to.

Take a life to save a life,

but the main thing for us is,

the tricky escorts,
if guys get injured.

We come straight
into the overhead,

puts off any possibility
of an insurgent attack

because they look
at us and just go,

"Right, that's an unfair fight.

"We're not going
to go in there."

- Harry became important

by being this big character

by being brave boy.

(slow instrumental music)

- This is my bed, I
don't even make it

when I'm done here,
just throw it,

that's it, made. (laughs)

(slow instrumental music)

- [Voiceover] Oh there it is.

(slow instrumental music)

- Harry is a party creature.

He always will be,

so obviously he's
gonna get called out.

He has walked out of night clubs

and smashed photographers.

- [Voiceover] Drunken
escapades and parties

have only made
Prince Harry appear

more like one of us.

But is he really more clown
prince than crown prince?

(upbeat music)

- Every misdemeanor
that Harry's had

has leaked out to the press

because we all want to
see Harry being Harry,

and then, of course,
there's the notorious strip

at Vegas, which was

really, really wild.

- It was probably
a classic example

of me probably
being too much army

and not enough prince.

I don't really want to get into

details of what I think of
what other people think.

At the end of the day,

I probably let myself down.

I let my family down.

I let other people down,
but at the end of the day

I was in a private area,

and there should
be a certain amount

of private privacy
that one should expect.

- He's in no hurry
to get married.

He doesn't have to,
the heat is off him

because William and
Kate have their babies,

and that whole situation
is now resolved,

in terms of the
line of succession.

(crowd laughing)

I'm sure that he would
want to find someone,

but he's equally
aware of how difficult

that role will be because she
will be under the spotlight

every second of the day.

- Chelsea and Cressida
both loved him very much,

and they both, probably,
felt differently about it,

but neither of them
fancied that kind of life.

The more family and children

that William and Kate have,

the more people are
gonna want naughty Harry.

- I can't wait to get back
and just sit on a sofa.

It's gonna be ridiculous after
bouncing around in a turret,

my hips are bruised,
my ass is bruised

because of the
turret, obviously.

- So, I don't see any respite
for him, I really don't.

I think people are
gonna want more of Harry

because he's still
the bachelor prince.

- [Voiceover] Prince Harry
rose to the rank of captain

before leaving the armed
forces in June 2015.

- In a statement issued
through Kensington Palace,

Prince Harry emphasizes
how hard a decision

it has been to move
on from the army.

- But when I've spoken to him,
he was saying quite clearly,

"I'm 30, I've reached my
time when most of my peers

"who joined the army
have already gone.

"It's probably time for me
to try and do other things."

- [Voiceover] He has often
spoken of the deep bonds

forged in the services, such
as with Corporal Ben McBean.

He was badly
injured when serving

on the same tour of Afghanistan.

- He's done really
well with helping out.

All the charities, as
well, with, obviously,

the guys that have been injured.

- We don't want pity, but
we do want the opportunity

to grow and to
overcome our illness.

- [Voiceover] You've spent a
lot of time with these guys.

I get a sense that you're
at your most relaxed

with them, and that
they make you feel

a little humble,
maybe, sometimes?

- No, completely, I love
spending time with these guys,

and I like to think
that I know, roughly,

what they're going
through, as well.

- [Voiceover] Do
you miss the army?

- I miss parts of it,

but that's another
reason why I'm gonna

be involved with these guys

for the rest of my life

because that military
banter never goes,

that dark sense of humor
will always be there.

- [Voiceover] Prince Harry
may well never be king,

but he is more
Spencer than Windsor,

more likely to wear
his heart on his sleeve

and more likely to be taken
to other people's hearts.

Prince Harry's life may
well be at a crossroads now,

but he is unlikely to ever
fade into the background.

For over 60 years,
the queen has reigned

over Britain and
its Commonwealth.

Elizabeth II is the matriarch
to the princes of the palace.

As wife, mother, grandmother

and now great-grandmother

she has provided a sense of duty

that binds the
Windsors together.

- The Duke of Edinburgh
said to me once,

"You know, when the
queen first became queen,

"and went on tours
in the early 1950s,

"millions, millions
of people came out

"in the streets and cheered,

"and if the queen had taken
that attention for herself,

"it would have been corrosive.

"She knew the attention,
the adulation,

"was not for her,

"it was for the position
of being queen."

- When she became queen,

there was still a
large percentage

of people who believed that
she was anointed by God.

It was a very
different class system.

The establishment
was an all-powerful.

Royalty did not give interviews.

- [Voiceover] Sometimes
the perception of aloofness

and distance which was
certainly bridged when--

- Ah, I think I would

twist that slightly
and say to you that,

perhaps, that's the
way the other people

think we want to be,

rather than,
necessarily, the way

that we would choose to be.

- [Voiceover] The queen's
lesson to the royal princes

is that public duty must always

come before personal pleasure.

- [Voiceover] I don't think
she has yet seen the film

called The Queen because she's
not interested in herself.

She doesn't read about herself.

She is not preoccupied
with herself.

She doesn't belong

to the me, me, me generation.

She isn't touchy feely
as a human being.

She is descreet.

She does her duty.

- There are two big influences,

one was the example
of what happened

with her uncle, Edward VIII,

king for such a short
time, never even crowned.

That would have instilled in her

the idea that you
do not walk away

from what is your duty.

What her father had
done, she carried on.

She was even more taken
to people's hearts

than her father had been.

- [Voiceover] The ability
to sacrifice for the nation

is what separates a
future king from a prince.

- You've seen what
Prince William is doing

in Australia and New Zealand.

I, for one, think that
royal family's relevant.

I think it's relevant probably
more so in the 21st century

than we really, either, want to,

or realized.

- [Voiceover] Four generations
of the House of Windsor,

Prince Phlip, Prince Charles,

Prince William, Prince Harry,

and Prince George.

- He's a character.

He clearly is winning the
hearts and minds of people.

It's difficult to know what
type of king he will be.

Will there even be a monarchy?

Who knows, I mean,
I personally think

there probably will be.

- [Voiceover] As the elder
generation of princes

hands over to the
younger generation,

they can be satisfied that
the princes of the palace

have upheld the essence
of what monarchy is,

to unite the people.

(dramatic music)

(tranquil music)