Tonight on Sunday ` he killed, he was jailed for life, so why's he allowed out on leave? # And just so you know... # She was robbed of a mother,... You do need to see the happiness in life even if you have been through something so traumatic. ...and they were robbed of a daughter. He just brutally cut her to pieces. Then a bombshell. I think it's horrendous. It's really worrying for everyone. We couldn't stop it. The boy born to be king. Now I know that he is just perfect for this job. William turns 30. I think Diana would be thrilled. Raised in extraordinary circumstances. He's probably everything we could possibly ask for in a prince and a future king. But still just one of us. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright TVNZ Access Services 2012 Kia ora. I'm Miriama Kamo. Every year, Maureen and John Watson front up to the parole board. Not because they have to; they do it for Karen, their daughter. They want to help make sure the man who killed her, ending her life in the most gruesome way imaginable, stays in jail. The killer, Gareth Smither, was sentenced to life in prison for the bloody murder. But, unbelievably, this year, as the Watsons again pleaded their case to the parole board, pleaded for Smither to be kept locked up, he was actually being let out on the street on leave for up to a week at a time. The Watsons are devastated. They ask ` how could this possibly happen? This story from Paul Hobbs. There wasn't an inch of her body that didn't have a stab wound. She didn't look like Karen. It looked like a... (SNIFFS) a rag doll. No parent should ever have to witness such a scene. I mean, hardened coppers` I mean, that day, hardened coppers even, you know... When the sun rose that day,... You can't imagine it. You can't. ...her daughter was already dead. He just brutally cut her to pieces. I've never felt such heartache. You get this terrible pain, and it's... For Maureen Watson, it was a dawn of a crushing new reality, consuming her life while protecting another. I think about... what she'd be like now and... if she'd be proud of me. In Dunedin tonight, a homicide investigation is underway... ...followed the death of a young woman in her Dunedin home. Police still won't say how she died. Karen Jacobs, the 26-year-old daughter of Maureen and John Watson, recently separated from her husband and living with her infant daughter. On a rare girls night out, she met the man who would end her life. Near the end of the night, she saw this chap sitting on his own in a corner. She thought he was a nice,... friendly kind of a chap, and, um, I think he asked for her phone number, and it went on from there. What did you think of Gareth initially? He seemed quite a reasonable type of a person. Were they in love? I never thought it was that serious. But 26-year-old Gareth Smither had an obsession ` Karen Jacobs. He wanted to possess Karen. I think Karen wanted to put the brakes on, but he wouldn't allow it. He wanted to keep on seeing her. Karen said he wanted to move in, but she said that she didn't... want that kind of a relationship. She just wanted a friend. He used to stalk Karen. He used to go into the neighbour's to see into Karen's window to make sure she was still there. And I found him outside Karen's house one night. He was just hanging around in the yard. I found that real strange. I said, 'Why didn't you go into the house?' What Karen didn't know was that Smither had a long history of mental health problems. He'd stalked previous girlfriends, indecently assaulted a pregnant woman. Karen had said to me that, uh, Gareth's a nice guy, and he wouldn't harm a fly. Just four days before he would murder Karen, Smither was admitted to a psychiatric ward at Dunedin's Wakari Hospital, having been diagnosed as 'dangerous', 'morbidly jealous' and 'obsessional'. But the next day he was discharged. RINGING TONE The following morning, Maureen tried to ring Karen to organise looking after her daughter, Georgina, while Karen worked. 20 past 9 I think I started ringing Karen's house... and getting no reply. I phoned about at least every 10 minutes, then it became every five minutes. By lunchtime, Maureen was worried. She drove the 10km from her Mosgiel home to Caversham, to find Karen's car still there... It just seems like yesterday, really. ...and the back door wide open. There wasn't an inch of her body that didn't have a stab wound. I don't want to say any more. Smither all but decapitated her with a garden spade. One of the most horrific scenes I've ever seen in my police career of 40 years. For inquiry head Chris Kelley, it's a case that still haunts him. You know, you'd have to look at the crime scene and see the frenzied attack and all the hallmarks of, 'Well, if I can't have you, no one else will.' Roger. We'll just move a cordon... The armed offenders squad arrested Smither the next day 200km away at his parents' bach in Alexandra. Smither was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, but arguably the life sentence is the Watsons'. I've never felt such heartache. You get this terrible pain, and it's... sometimes it just seems unbearable, but... What have we got? Out in the garage, more pain. This is the box that the police dropped off some time or other. Have a look inside... A box she hasn't had the courage to open for 14 years. I can't even describe it. It's... shocking. Evidence the police took from Karen's house, much still stained with the horror of that night. And this is the jewellery that Karen had on... that night. How do you deal with all of this? How do you deal with all of this? I don't. How do you deal with all of this? I don't. It doesn't improve over the years. It's supposed to, but it hasn't in a case like this. It just continues. John tried to deal with it in his own way. He was a prison officer at Dunedin Prison, where Smither was being held during his trial. And this particular day you said, 'I won't be home tonight. 'In fact, I might not be home for a while.' I said, 'Why is that?' He said, 'Oh, I've just got something to do at work.' He intended to kill Gareth. The staff at Dunedin Prison said he wouldn't be able to do that, because he didn't have the keys, but, in fact, he did. John, you would've murdered Smither? Yeah, I would've. In 2007, Smither became eligible for parole. Smither's mental health problems have meant he has spent time in both prison and high-security mental hospitals. Maureen's been doing hard time of her own ` writing submissions to the parole board pleading with them to stop Smither walking free, free to potentially kill again. I've got a fear that it could be your daughter, somebody else's daughter, somebody else's family. For the past five years, attending every meeting with the board. They don't need to be there in person, but they choose to. Is it the least you can do for Karen? I feel like we'd be letting her down if we didn't try and hold him in. Six times they've met with the parole board. Each time the board has denied Smither freedom. And now, 15 years on, John and Maureen set off from Dunedin for another meeting with the parole board. It's a windy take-off, but the real turbulence will be in Christchurch tomorrow. Coming up ` the bombshell at the Watsons' meeting with the board; and what's become of Karen's little daughter? I thought Georgina was dead. The state of Georgina's room was as bad as Karen's. The 2-year-old girl discovered in the room next door to her murdered mother. How are you feeling this morning, Maureen? Not too good. It's the morning of John and Maureen's meeting with the parole board at a Christchurch hotel. These take a lot out of you, and not always brave. It's the seventh time the couple have done this. I would like to put forward my concerns about Smither. But John's words to the board about Gareth Smither remain raw. It's personal. He has ruined our life... as well as brutally slicing our daughter, Karen, to pieces. And he did. Sunday's cameras aren't permitted to film the meeting, but after 30 minutes, the Watsons emerge with a bombshell. I think it's horrendous. It's really worrying for everyone. We couldn't stop it. The Watsons have known that Smither has been kept here in a mental health unit at Hillmorton Hospital, but what they didn't know is that since last year, he's been granted supervised community leave for up to a week at a time. So despite being denied parole, Smither is out on the streets. Smither's mental health problems meant he was transferred from prison to Hillmorton Hospital. Under the law, his current care, rehabilitation and short-term releases into the community are determined by clinicians, the director of mental health, and not the judicial system, the prison or the parole board. Just three weeks ago, the parole board stated Smither's final release is 'some distance away'. He is yet to complete a violence prevention programme, which Smither acknowledges will be a challenge for him. While his ultimate release is decided by the parole board, through the mental health system, his next step into the community would be 'unescorted leave'. Can you understand that the public would be outraged to learn that a convicted killer like Smither, he's denied parole and yet given leave for up to a week at a time in the community? I can understand that, um, because it's counterintuitive. Dr David Chaplow was the director of mental health until 18 months ago. Doesn't this seem like a gaping flaw or at least a hole in the law? Doesn't this seem like a gaping flaw or at least a hole in the law? That would be seen to be an anomaly. What happens is that special patients come in, uh, in a judicial... route, and, really, they leave, um, by virtue of a clinical assessment and a political decision. Chaplow says when he was the director, he helped draft new legislation to bring us into line with countries like Australia and the UK. It will align what people think is acceptable, and... it will make the process very transparent, um, which is important. So there's redrafted legislation sitting there waiting to address this problem? We have looked at that. We have raised it, um, and it's ready to go when the government deems it a priority. But the government sees no need to act. I'm pretty satisfied with the way it operates, and we're not proposing any changes in the immediate future. But our worst offenders with mental health problems could be seen to be sidestepping the system. Surely if they're well enough to be granted leave into the community, they're well enough to go back to prison and serve their sentence. That's a clinical judgement. I'm not in the role of making those clinical judgements. But there are risks to this current practice. There are always going to be risks involved. We have very strict controls in place to make sure that at the very least that risk is minimised. But that in the majority, the overwhelming, if not the total majority of cases, the community is safe. So the Watsons' personal struggle continues. But a far greater achievement must bring comfort ` raising a little girl left without a mother into a young woman. Georgina Jacobs was only 2 when she was found alone in her blood-spattered bedroom, her mother dead in the room next door. It's kind of overwhelming at times. But like the elements around her, her mother is ever present. I still think of her as my mum. I have built this picture of her in my mind about how other people viewed her. I wish I got to know what she would've been like around me. For the first time, the 17-year-old talks publicly about her mother and the night Gareth Smither brutally cut short her life. Do you remember anything about the night your mum was murdered? No, I` I don't remember anything, which I suppose is a good thing. You don't remember your mum at all? You don't remember your mum at all? No, I don't really remember anything. I don't remember her. There are times when I think I remember little snippets of things, but then I don't know if that's true or if it's my imagination making it up or I'm trying to hold on to something that never actually happened. But in this teenager's room, there is something precious ` her mother's ashes. It's comforting. Yeah, a lot of people find it creepy, but I'm just... I've kind of grown up with them being there, so I'm used to it now. It's the little things she misses most about her mum. I would like to know her favourite colour. I would like to know her favourite flower. I would like to know what she really smelt like, and I would like to know what it was like to hug her and talk to her and that sort of thing. I got roast beef in mine. It's takeaways night in the Watson home. Around the table ` Nana, Grandad and Georgina. After Karen's death, Maureen and John looked after Georgina. John and Maureen are her family. They're so good to me. They spoil me rotten. I'm really lucky to have them, eh. They're really special to me. They always will be. They know that. I hope they know that, anyway. Well, we love her too. Um,... we'd go to the end of the wo` world for Georgina. # And just so you know... # What do you think when you see Georgina now? I think her mother would be very proud. < Are you excited about your future? < Are you excited about your future? Oh, yeah, so excited. You need to live your live, really. You only get one. (CHUCKLES) I'm terrified, but I can't wait either. I really can't wait. Sunday wanted to talk to the director of mental health, who's responsible for granting Smither leave. He declined our request for an interview. We also wanted to know the frequency and conditions of Gareth Smither's leave from Hillmorton Hospital, but health authorities can't comment on individual patient care. Next ` the boy who was born to be king turns 30. A boy born into extraordinary circumstances, but who craved normality. An idyllic childhood that ended in tragedy. He had to grow up in the spotlight and had duty thrust upon him when he just wanted to be like everyone else. His Royal Highness, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince William to us. His parents affectionately called him Wombat, and he's also known simply as Wills. This week, Prince William, the Queen's third eldest grandchild and second in line to the throne, turned 30. It was a low-key celebration with his wife, brother Harry and a few mates. I don't know if the royals can do low-key. Anyway,... except, he also inherits $20 million from his mother's estate. I think that proves my point. Tonight we follow William's journey from a chubby-cheeked toddler to a fine, fully fledged, future king. This from ITV. It's a boy. The Princess of Wales' first baby, the next in line to the throne after Prince Charles himself, has been born at St Mary's Hospital in London. They have been singing, 'Well done, Charlie. Let's have another one.' Really? Bloody hell, give us a chance. The new Prince has blue eyes, like both his parents, and he cries lustily. There was the fairy-tale wedding, and now we'd got a future king. You know, ticking all the boxes. The proud and now rested father was the first to arrive this morning. How are you? > How are you? > I'm all right, thank you very much. Weighing in at 7lbs, 1� ounces, everyone wanted the first picture of the young prince. If you were there on a certain time at a certain day at a certain hour, you would that` Charles and Diana would pose on the steps and both of them holding William. Those pictures of Charles and Diana coming down the steps of the Lindo Wing at Paddington Hospital, Diana sort of cradling this` this tiny little bundle. Couldn't see William, of course, cos he was wrapped up in a` in a bundle. May we see your son, Your Royal Highness? > William's first year was spent with his family in Kensington Palace. But for the heir apparent, there could be no escape from the huge public interest. And before his second birthday, duty called as he was paraded in front of the world's media. CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK And he was fascinated. He sort of looked around at all these strange people. He's clutching the cameras, and he's doing everything. It was things that you would not have got prior to Diana. CHARLES: The electronic news-gathering techniques. CHARLES: The electronic news-gathering techniques. That, that, that. Like all little boys, William was fascinated by what was going on. He was only a toddler, but he went up to the cameraman, and I always remember the cameraman took the camera and swung it round so that William could actually look through the eyepiece. So Charles bends down with him and shows him the camera, and he's looking at us through the viewfinder. Look, see the faces. There's people in there. It's called a microphone. On September 15th of the same year, with William now 2, a little brother, Harry, was born, completing the royal family unit. A year later, he made royal history as the first heir to the throne to attend a public nursery. And with press interest in the royals at an all time high, William had to face the paparazzi, who were out in full force as he arrived for his first day at Mrs Minors. One of the nicknames for him when he was little was Basher Wills, because he wasn't afraid to get into a few scraps. He was a little bit of a daredevil. He liked getting up to all sorts of mischief. In 1986, aged 4, he graduated from kindergarten to Whetherby School. And once again, it was front-page news. So we arrived at the school, and there was literally probably 80 or 100 whatever` I can't remember, but there was a huge bank of photographers. I remember Diana saying 'Now, William, you've got to be careful now, 'because you know when you go to the school, they'll be lots of photographers and press.' And he sort of turned round just underneath the peek of his hat and said, 'I don't like tographers.' William's early school life was as normal as it could be, but he was still being groomed for a life of duty, and the young prince was finding it hard. Diana told me that from a young age, he felt the burden of kingship on his shoulders, and he found that a very heavy burden to bear, but she thought he had the makings of a great king, and she said, 'The country's really lucky to have William, you know. William is all right.' Despite the obligations of office, his mother insisted that her boys would have as normal an upbringing as possible. Can I hold him? All right down there? Very consciously, she said, 'There will be work days, and there will be play days. 'On work days, you have to dress up like young princes, and you have to behave that way, 'but on your play days, yeah, you can wear your jeans, you can have baseball caps, 'you can eat a burger.' I'd have to say that the Prince would` would probably have had a fit to think that his son was eating McDonalds. And just like every other child in the land, William and Harry loved nothing more than a day out with Mum at a theme park. BOTH CHEER There was no queue-jumping and using their VIP status. They queued just like everyone else. The more thrilling the ride, the more times they wanted to go on it. ALL LAUGH By 1992, William, now 10, was a boarder at Ludgrove Prep School in Berkshire. CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK To the outside world, it looked like an idyllic childhood, but the year brought turmoil to the House of Windsor. The fire at Windsor Castle, the break-up of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson and, worst of all for William, his mother and father's marriage in crisis, leading the Queen to publicly describe it as a 'terrible year'. It was all beginning to take its toll on the young William, who had to shoulder the burden of his parents' break-up. Diana did put tremendous responsibility on William's shoulders as someone to comfort and to talk to and to be with. And there's one really moving story when Diana was in tears in her bathroom, and William was pushing tissues under the door, because he could hear her crying. 'It'll be all right, Mummy. It'll be all right. I'll look after you.' It was all the wrong way round for William. He was having to comfort his mother when she should have been looking after him. He was just a little boy. But William's world was about to be rocked as Diana went global on the state of her marriage on national television. It was gob-smacking to hear the sort of thing she came out with ` 'three of us in this marriage' and all the other things. I remember watching it and calling Diana afterwards, and she wouldn't take my call initially, but I eventually got through to her, saying it was the stupidest thing that she had ever done. And for William, who had always supported his mother, this time she had gone too far. For him, the idea of playing out one's troubles and wearing one's heart on one sleeve so publicly and bringing humiliation on to the royal family, well, that was a big no-no. He was desperately upset, couldn't believe that she had laid her soul so bare. He refused to speak to his mother for some days after that, and, bear in mind how close they were, this was absolutely devastating for Diana. So we are following 30 years of William's story. We'll be back with it in just a moment when tragedy strikes. William's first concern was how they would break the news to Harry, because it was going to destroy his youngest brother. Lots of people's mummies have died, but not many people's mummies have died so publicly. And William pursues his dream of normality. I don't like being treated any different at all. I don't like special treatment at all, which is why I think I get along with these guys so well. It was 1997. Prince William had turned 15, and he was blossoming at the elite boarding school of Eton. He had his own life there, his own set of friends, and he was doing well academically. He was also dealing with splitting his time between divorced parents, moving between two very different worlds. Then, after a summer spent holidaying in luxurious St Tropez with Diana and Dodi Fayed, everything was about to change for Prince William and the entire royal family. We have reports from Paris that Diana, Princess of Wales, has been killed in a car accident. I was asleep in bed, and the phone rang. I think the time, was, oh, something like 1 in the morning, and he said, 'There's been this crash in Paris. Dodi is dead, and we think the Princess is dead too.' Diana, Princess of Wales, who died 4 o'clock this morning in Paris. Everybody who saw that unfold on the television that morning thought, 'Oh my God, those poor boys.' And Charles went walking on the moors` across the Scottish moors to try and clear his head and brace himself for what must surely have been the hardest thing as a father he has ever had to do. He would wait until, I think, probably about 7am, and he took it upon himself to, uh, go and tell William and Harry the awful news about their mother, which is a pretty tough call for anyone. The first son he told was William. He went into his room shortly after 7.30 and told him that his mother had been killed. There is an account that is that William's first concern was how they would break the news to Harry, because it was going to destroy his youngest brother. It doesn't matter who you are, how royal you are, which castle you're in or where you're sleeping, if you've lost your mum or you've lost your dad, then, you know, it's catastrophic. Private grieving had to be put to one side, and as always, duty called. Charles took William and Harry to view the flowers and meet the mourners outside Kensington Palace. It's very much a credit to both their parents that they were able to cope in public under such, sort of, desperate grief. Harry, I'm so sorry. > Harry, I'm so sorry. > William, William. > Thank you so much. Thank you. That's above and beyond. Going out and looking at those flowers which were for your mum, and I can't imagine what sort of fortitude that took to walk out of the gates that day and hold it together. EMOTIVE VIOLIN MUSIC Then on Saturday the 6th of September, the world, Britain and most importantly, her boys bid their final farewell to Diana. When the day of the funeral came, William, I think, was still uncertain as to whether he would agree to walk behind his mother's coffin. Grandfather Prince Philip said, 'If I walk, will you?' And I think Prince William thought it was such a wonderful thing of his grandfather, and I think it's a decision he'll never ever regret. And then the coffin comes along, and there's the boys walking along behind them with the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles. No one expected that. And the sadness and remorse in Charles' face as he's standing by the hearse looking down at William, and the picture tells a thousand words, that one does. The other most poignant moment that day, I think, was when suddenly we saw a card on the hearse with the flowers on the coffin, and it just said the simple word 'Mummy'. And I don't think there is a mother in the nation who didn't have a big lump in her throat and a tear in her eye when she saw that. Although William had to grow up quickly after his mother's death, it brought him and brother Harry closer to their father. Early the next year, they went on a state visit to Canada, where 15-year-old William had to fulfil yet another role ` that of a royal pin-up. REPORTER: A tall 15-year-old with a demure smile and his mother's looks is the very latest teenage heartthrob. Welcome to Will-mania. GIRLS SCREAM My goodness me. William turned out to be very handsome, indeed ` tall and handsome, a prince and the most eligible young man around ` and the world went mad. GIRLS SCREAM He said hi, and he shook my hand. He shook our hands. He's a good looking chap, isn't he? The royal family must have been thinking, you know, 'This is unbelievable.' GIRLS SCREAM Thousands of screaming young girls turned out for them. He looked very embarrassed and awkward. And whenever he's been asked about it since, he really seems to sort of laugh off or shirk off that image of him as a pin-up. At 19, William had already led an eventful life. Gap year behind him, he was determined to continue his quest for normality, and shunning the traditional Oxbridge route, he enrolled at St Andrews University on the east coast of Scotland. CROWD CHEERS REPORTER: The small university town of St Andrews had never seen anything like it. Prince William greeted like a local hero as he arrived with his father. And it was about to live up to its reputation as Britain's top matchmaking university. We suddenly got a flood of applications from American women wanting to come and study at St Andrews University. Most of those were wealthy Americans who were determined to come over, get a place at St Andrews and bag their prince. He even took a place in a hall of residence ` St Salvator's, known locally as Sallies. He was treated very normally from almost the moment he arrived, which may be was part of the fact of it being such a small community. It was almost quite protective around him, and it felt privileged to have him there. It's so good, cos everyone sees me around the whole time, and it's no big deal, which is what I really want it to be. You know, the last thing I want to do is cause loads of, you know, problems. I just want to go in there and get my asparagus or whatever, um, so it's really worked well. I think we all were star-struck. Everyone was trying to, you know, not show it too much for his sake. He's a very normal, very down-to earth-kind of guy, and, you know, he's sort of easily mistaken for just being another, sort of, one of your mates, which he was, really. In the first few days at Sallies, he was to meet an attractive fellow student called Kate Middleton. I was in the room next door to Kate Middleton in first year. She was known as 'beautiful Kate' almost from day one. And in terms of their social life, they went to some of the more upmarket boroughs in St Andrews. Ma Bells is a popular drinking location for them ` also known as Yar Bells in St Andrews. And I remember seeing the two of them at the bar and him pinching her bottom and that was the first time I remember thinking, 'Well, they're definitely a couple, then.' March 2002, and Kate was asked to model in the Don't Walk charity fashion show. William took his place in the audience and was about to see Kate in a whole new light. And when Kate came out dressed in this amazing see-through dress and, you know, her lingerie, William just` I mean, his eyes popped out, and he turned to his friend, and he said, 'Wow, Kate's hot.' Romanced blossomed, and during their second year at St Andrews, they shared a flat in Hope St, but William had learnt at some cost that publicity can put pressure on a relationship, and the press didn't find out for another 18 months. REPORTER: The girl said to be the Prince's first serious girlfriend is Kate Middleton. She is a flatmate of the Prince at St Andrews. One year later, in June 2005, when William had just turned 23, they both graduated... William Wales. > ...with a very special guest in attendance. Later that year, William began his forces training at Westbury in Wiltshire and then subsequently at the Sandhurst Military Academy. Meanwhile, Kate had moved down to London and got her first taste of what life is like as a royal. Her every move now the subject of press speculation. There's intense media scrutiny on Catherine down in London, and I think that was very difficult for them, because their relationship had to change and adapt to that. But it wasn't just Kate who needed protection from the press. William's social life was also making headlines. I don't think anyone could really blame William. He was part of the Blues and Royals household cavalry, known as the Booze and Royals, and he was having a great time. Unfortunately, pictures of him on a podium dancing with a pretty blonde, they emerged, and, um, William looked like he was having far too much fun, certainly to Kate, who called the shots and said, 'Well, you can't have it both ways.' And that was when he said, 'Well, then, we're gonna take a break.' I at the time wasn't very happy about it, but, actually, it made me a stronger person. And you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realised, or I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you're younger. And, you know, I really valued that time for me as well, although I didn't think it at the time. Phew. I think she conducted herself brilliantly when William dumped her, cos she had all those headlines and everything, but she just got on with her life. And then she went to a few parties in London in hot pants for charity and all those lovely events, and I think William must have seen what he was missing. And I think William very soon realised that, actually, he'd made a bit of a mistake here and went and wooed her back. Wembley Stadium, the 1st of July 2007. William and Harry staged a fund-raising concert on what would have been their mother's 46th birthday, calling on pop and rock royalty to take part. We decided that it's gonna be called Concert for Diana, because, obviously, the evening is gonna be purely about her, and as we both want to make sure first and foremost the evening is for her, it's to remember her and to commemorate her life and celebrate it. Tickets, of course, were like gold dust. You've got to be very good and ask Santa very nicely. Or ring his mobile. 077` Or ring his mobile. 077` Or ring my mobile. Shut up. They are fantastic on their own, but when they work together, that's a real powerful force. And rumour has it the concert was also the catalyst for the reunion of William and Kate. The first time we saw them back together again was at the Diana concert. William was at the front row with Harry, and Kate was a couple of rows behind, actually, with her brother. It was a memorable and poignant moment when Take That was singing Back for Good, and Kate was seen swinging her hips and singing along to the lyrics, and I suppose that was all anyone needed to know that they were back for good. So they had their break, decided they didn't like it. Next ` the most anticipated wedding in 30 years. It was bubbling, crackling with excitement and glee. First and foremost to Prince William, he is a serviceman. When you're flying at night in Snowdonia and other mountains, and you've got 40-knot winds, and basically hope that you can actually get there and help. On the 16th of November 2010, the UK got the news it had been waiting for. 28-year-old Prince William announced he was engaged to Kate Middleton. They would be married the following spring or summer. It ended months of speculation. So how did it come about? I'd been planning it for a while, but as every guy out there will know, it takes a certain amount of motivation to get yourself going. So I took her out somewhere nice in Kenya and proposed. Very romantic. There is a true romantic in there. Very romantic. There is a true romantic in there. There is. Kate was natural, he was supportive, but at no point did it look like he was attempting to manipulate what she was saying. They were both really honest. You know, we were out there with friends and things, so I really didn't expect it at all. I thought he might have, sort of, maybe thought about it, but no, it was a total shock when it came and very excited. (GIGGLES) We heard Katherine speak publicly for the first time, which again is incredible when you think about how discreet she was over 10 years in that relationship. When he finally proposed, it was with Diana's diamond and sapphire engagement ring ` certainly enough to bowl Kate over. I thought it was quite nice, cos she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of all of this. This is my way of keeping her, sort of, close to it all. This is my way of keeping her, sort of, close to it all. I just hope I look after it. If she loses it, she's in big trouble. If she loses it, she's in big trouble. It's very very special. As the wedding day drew closer, the royal machine began to swing into action. But behind the scenes, William and Kate wanted a break with tradition and to do things their way. Initially, Buckingham Palace had drawn up a very extensive guest list of, I think, over 700 names of heads of states, kings and queens around the world. He then went to the Queen and said, 'Is this really the way it's gonna be?' And she said, 'No. Rip that up. Invite who you want.' Lets do it your way. You invite your friends. Finally, on the 29th of April 2011, the most anticipated royal wedding in 30 years was upon us, and a third of the world's population sat down to watch. It was the most extraordinary atmosphere. It was, sort of, full of love, life, emotion. Although it was a very big occasion by the amount of people, it felt like just a very big family wedding. CROWD CHEERS For a royal couple, even a private tenderness becomes a public expectation. A beautiful kiss worked really well. 'Oh, you're gonna go for it again.' William serving as a search and rescue helicopter pilot and Kate living as a homemaker, albeit one who has royal duties to perform. He works his shifts like any other one of the guys on the base, and he is just one of them, and his wife is one of` when she's down there, an army wife. Search and rescue is a massive, important part, and you need to ask the people who have been helped. They're the ones who could give you a better answer. It's quite obvious that this is a passion, William's skills were called into action when Richard Lloyd found himself in a life or death situation whilst out walking in Snowdonia National Park. My foot slipped on a wet rock, and I went over very very awkwardly and fell over and started screaming in pain, cos I knew something was very seriously wrong. We just heard a... (IMITATES HELICOPTER WHIRRING) like that, and the helicopter didn't appear from the sky. It actually came up from behind one of these rock faces like Airwolf or something. It was spectacular, and I just remember feeling, 'Oh, goodness, what have I done?' When I spotted that it was Prince William, it was` immediately, it was shock and slight disbelief. I kept having a little peep to see whether it really was, and though he was also being discreet, you could tell that it was ` it was Prince William. And we got so many, sort of, jealous comments, especially from` from women. (CHUCKLES) So, in many respects, he has it all ` a job he loves, a beautiful wife and an idyllic life in Anglesey ` and he intends to keep it that way... for now. They want to lead a normal life as possible, and they should be entitled to, and I don't think there's any pressure from anywhere in the royal household for them to give that life up before they need to. William has now come to terms with duty and his destiny. As second in line to the throne, he knows the time will come when he has to take the top job, I think Diana would be thrilled. She knew when she gave birth what his destiny was, and I think that perhaps if she looked at the way he's played it, the wife that he has, Carry on as you are now, because your mother would be proud of you, your dad is proud of you, your grandparents are proud of you, and I think the nation is actually proud of you too.