The engagement had just been announced. Catherine Middleton had given her first television interview, with Prince William sitting proudly by her side. And it was now time to plan the wedding. <\/p>\nThe engagement had just been announced. Catherine Middleton had given her first television interview, with Prince William sitting proudly by her side. And it was now time to plan the wedding. <\/p>\n
Eager to include all their close friends in the great day, the young couple began to draw up the guest-list. But they found they had been pipped to the post: Buckingham Palace was there first.<\/p>\n
He chuckles as he recalls his own sense of helplessness. \u2018They said: \u201cThese are the people we should invite.\u201d I looked at it in absolute horror and said: \u201cI think we should start again.\u201d\u2019 <\/p>\n
Eventually, he realised there was only one person who could resolve the issue: the Queen herself.
\nThe list was duly \u2018binned\u2019. And Prince William absorbed the latest of many useful lessons from his grandmother in striking that delicate balance between \u2018personal\u2019 and \u2018duty\u2019. <\/p>\n
On other wedding matters, however, he rapidly learned that there was absolutely no room for manoeuvre. For instance, he says: \u2018I wanted to decide what to wear for the wedding.\u2019 <\/p>\n
As a commissioned officer in all three Services, and a serving member of the Royal Air Force, the Prince certainly had a few choices. Except that he did not.
\nThis time, it was his grandmother who was laying down the law. Having just appointed Prince William to the position of Colonel of the Irish Guards, his most senior military appointment \u2014 and one of her Guards regiments to boot \u2014 the Queen was quite clear that her grandson should be getting married in his Irish Guards uniform.
\nIn any case, as a serving officer in Her Majesty\u2019s Armed Forces, he could hardly disobey an order from the Commander-in-Chief.<\/p>\n
Only one other monarch has marked 60 years on the throne. Queen Victoria\u2019s Diamond Jubilee, however, was a celebration of imperial might, featuring a reclusive Britannia figure. <\/p>\n
As the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II nears, the mood is entirely different. One can see Queen Victoria in Highland seclusion and set in aspic. Queen Elizabeth II is walking dogs or watching a dancing display somewhere in the South Seas. She is a \u2018now\u2019 person, not a \u2018then\u2019 person. <\/p>\n
And unlike the Queen Mother, the Queen \u2014 now 85 \u2014 has never been viewed by the public as a twinkly-eyed granny.
\nThe future monarch certainly considers himself extremely lucky to have both his father and his grandmother to consult. Indeed, no trainee sovereign has ever had so much experience on which to draw.<\/p>\n
\u2018My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength,\u2019 he says. \u2018As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: \u201cThis is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n
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