As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much.
My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'
I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.
It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.