Young Prince’s scrape with a sailor
royal yachtsman, described the scrapes the young Prince of Wales got into on his maiden voyage. He said: “The children, they loved it. They came down to our mess deck for tea. They wanted to know how the lads got into their hammocks. Charles shook this lad who had been asleep, and he picked him up by the scruff of the neck. He said, ‘Don’t you do that again or you’ll never live to be King’, and put him down.” I liked helping to create it,” added the Duchess, who will with the Duke next month embark on the couple’s first Commonwealth tour to Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand.
“You know, it’s such an exciting time for us, especially with Harry’s role as Youth Ambassador for the Commonwealth and the travel that we intend to do, to do work specifically in all those different territories,” she said.
“Which is why it was so important to have some sort of example of that present with us on the day.
“Fifty-three countries as goodness. It’ll keep us busy.”
The documentary will also show the Prince of Wales, who was this year confirmed as the next head of the Commonwealth after the Queen said it was her “sincere wish” that he succeed her, paying tribute to his mother’s decades of duty.
“When you think how young the Queen was when suddenly my grandfather died, to be required to take on such an enormous task and to have met that challenge the way she did is truly remarkable,” he said. “It appeared effortless, but it jolly well isn’t, of course.”
The first episode of the two-part Queen of the World will be broadcast on ITV at 9.15pm on Tuesday.