Philip’s advice to Kate: ‘Never look at the camera’
WHEN Catherine Middleton came along as a potential bride for his grandson, the Duke of Edinburgh was, he told me, ‘relieved to find her such a level-headed girl’.
But he refused to take any credit for the successful way in which Catherine has merged into the Royal Family — becoming a star, but somehow managing not to behave like a celebrity.
‘If you believe the attention is for you personally,’ he told me, ‘you’re going to end up in trouble. The attention is for your role, what you do, what you’re supporting.
‘It isn’t for you as an individual. You are not a celebrity. You are representing the Royal Family. That’s all.
‘Don’t look at the camera. The Queen never looks at the camera. Never.
‘Look at who you’re talking to. Look at what you’ve come to see. Diana looked at the camera.’
I have been on walkabout with the Duchess of Cambridge. And she never looks at the camera.