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| Katie Couric interviews Prince William at Clarence House |
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge shares with Katie Couric how he’d wanted his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, to meet Kate on his wedding day.
The prince said it was the 'one time' since she died that
he'd really missed his mother and he'd felt 'sad' knowing she wouldn't be
there.
William opened up during an interview at Clarence House,
where he lives with Kate, for the U.S. show The Jubilee Queen with Katie
Couric, screened on ABC last May 29.
'I sort of prepared myself beforehand so that I was sort of
mentally prepared,' he said. 'I didn’t want any wobbly lips or anything going
on,' Prince William told Couric in the interview ahead of the celebrations in
honour of the Queen's 60-year reign.
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| Interview with Prince Harry in Brazil |
'It was the one time since she's died where I've thought to
myself it would be fantastic if she was here. And just how sad really, for her
more than anything, not being able to see it.
'I think she would have loved the day and I think,
hopefully, she’d be very proud of us both for the day. I’m just very sad that she’s never going to
get a chance to meet Kate.'
Prince Harry shares the same, too it was a poignant moment,
as he felt his mother's absence acutely, knowing especially that 'she would
have loved Kate.'
'I think she had the best seat in the house probably,' Harry
said. 'She would have loved to have been there.'
Harry, who acted as his brother's best man, also confessed
he was 'massively nervous' on his brother's wedding day.
'Everybody was nervous,' he said. 'The whole thing was a bit
of a blur to be honest because there was God knows how many millions or
billions of eyes focused on us. Luckily, mainly those two.'
'Honestly it was one of those days where you feel very
elated. Also completely terrified, I have to be honest. The prospect of two
billion people watching was quite daunting.'
Royal biographer Penny Junor, the author of 'Prince William:
The Man Who Will Be King', writes that Prince Charles and Diana's highly
publicized affairs left a lasting impact on their son’s life that it
contributed to Prince William's delayed marriage proposal to now-wife Kate
Middleton, claiming that the second in line to the throne was worried if he
will stick to one one woman.
'The problem was William: he had very real worries about
whether it was possible to love just one woman. After his hurricane childhood,
he was understandably cautious about committing to a relationship,' Junor
writes in the book.
Katie Couric, she was 'trepidatious' to ask the princes
about Diana because it was 'so personal and private', also talked to the
princes about their relationship with the Queen.
The stories that the heirs to the throne shared shows that
they have a very close bond with her, one that is much more normal than
expected.
'I still think she's just my grandmother, really,' Prince
William shares when asked there was a moment when he though her grandmother was
not like like everyone else's.
But continued, admitting: ''When I was younger and my
parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was
running around screaming I was told to shut up. And I sort of understood that
when I was around her I needed to be a little but more low key and little bit
more polite.'
Meanwhile, Prince Harry, who was talking to Couric in
Brazil, said he couldn't imagine taking on the responsibility that the Queen
did in 1953.
'This tour itself has been a brief insight as to what she
had to deal with at a very young age,' Harry said. 'What she's achieved and
what she's done and at the age of 25, confronted with the world's media. You
can see it in her face now. You can see it in the way that she parades herself
is just so immaculate.'
When it comes to family though, he said his grandmother is
'really very very normal. Very relaxed. She obviously takes a huge interest in
what we all do, that's her children as well as her grandchildren.
'She wants to know which charities we're supporting, how
life is going in our jobs and such. So you know, she has a vested interested in
what we do.'
And it seems her interests go beyond what her own
twenty-something grandsons are up to.
Joking about the Queen's Facebook page, he lamented that she
hadn't 'friended' him yet and asked Couric whether she had received any friend
requests from his grandmother herself.
'She's managed to get the family to move with the times and
I think that's incredibly important. You can't get stuck in an old age
situation when everything else around you is changing so you have to go with
it,' he said approvingly.
From William's description of his first meeting to discuss
the royal wedding, it would appear however, that when it comes to business
versus family, Britain's monarch does not waste time in prioritising.
'I was given a list in the first meeting, of 777 names, and
not one of them on there I knew,' he recalled. 'And I wasn't too happy about it
so I rang her for a bit of moral support, and a bit of back up, and she said
"don't be so ridiculous. Get rid of the list and start from your
friends."'
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