Prince William (56 page)

William, aged four and a half, arriving for his first day at Wetherby School.

Another photo call for two small boys to endure. On holiday in Majorca with the Spanish Royal Family.

Taken out of school for his first public engagement aged nine. His father thought he was too young.

Both boys have always had a warm and tactile relationship with their father and all three of them love their holidays in Scotland.

Diana strikes a lonely figure in front of the Taj Mahal in February 1992, and knew exactly what message it sent the world.

The boys' first skiing holiday in 1991.

Diana ensured they did normal childish things – and she enjoyed the thrill of the rides at Thorpe Park just as much as they did.

Diana adored her boys but Olga Powell, the nanny, was a more constant figure in their early lives.

Another was Tiggy Legge-Bourke of whom Diana reportedly became jealous.

Ludgrove was a small family-run school where William was protected from the lurid headlines about his parents' marriage problems.

Eton was almost ten times bigger, and had no such mechanism. William often used to walk over the bridge to Windsor Castle to have tea with Granny and Grandpa.

William's confirmation in March 1997. The first time the Wales family had been together in four years – and it was to be the last. ‘Granny Frances' wasn't invited.

No one coerced the boys into walking behind their mother's cortege. The decision, brave as it was, was entirely theirs.