The Young British Royals, in Their Own Words

"I am going to get plenty of criticism over my lifetime. It's something I don't completely ignore, but it is not something I take completely to heart. I am concentrating very much on my role as a father. I am a new father and I take my duty and my responsibility to my family very seriously . . . When the queen decides that she is going to hand down more responsibilities, I will be the first person to accept them."

"I still miss my mother every day, and it's 20 years after she died. The important thing is to talk about it as a family."

"If or when I do find a girlfriend, I will do my utmost to ensure that me and her can get to the point where we're actually comfortable with each other before the massive invasion that is inevitably going to happen to her privacy . . . Even if I talk to a girl, that person is then suddenly my wife, and people go knocking on her door. I'm not putting work before the idea of a family, marriage, and all that kind of stuff. To be fair, I haven't had that many opportunities to get out there and meet people. At the moment, my focus is very much on work. But if someone slips into my life, then that's absolutely fantastic."

"We're completely aware that we are in a very privileged position, and I will spend the rest of my life earning that privilege."

"The queen was really thrilled that it was a little girl, and I think as soon as we came back here to Kensington, she was one of our first visitors here . . . George is only 2-and-a-half and he calls her 'Gan-Gan.' She always leaves a little gift or something in their room when we go and stay and that just shows her love for her family."

"I'm a lot more emotional than I used to be. I never used to really get too wound up or worried about things, but now the smallest little things . . . you well up more. You get affected by the sort of things that happen around the world a lot more, I think, as a father, just because you realize how precious life is and it puts it all in perspective, the idea of not being around to see your children grow up and stuff like that."

"I really regret not ever talking about it."