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Last Updated: Friday, 19 November, 2004, 17:58 GMT
In quotes: Prince William
Prince William speaks out about his time away from the media glare at St Andrews University and his hopes and fears for the future as he prepares for his final exams:

I do all my own shopping. I go out get takeaway, rent videos, go to the cinema, just basically anything I want to really, I can go to. On university life

Keeping your feet firmly on the ground is the most important thing.

I just wish more of his charitable work was concentrated on because he does do a hell of a lot of work and the Prince's Trust is just an amazing organisation. On Prince Charles

She's been brilliant she's a real role model.On the Queen

He makes me laugh, he's very funny. On Prince Philip

There's so much I want to do and I just, it worries me occasionally I won't be able to do it all.

I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if they know any good place to buy underwear.

I hope it's been as good for the media as it has been for me and a healthy and positive relationship will keep going.On the media agreement to leave him alone while he is at university

I've spent 22 years being in the spotlight.

I really do want to be in control of my own life.

The last thing I want to do is be mollycoddled or wrapped up in cotton wool, because if I was to join the Army I'd want to go where my men went and I'd want to do what they did.

There are disagreements, obviously as all families do and when they are, they are big disagreements but when they're happy times we have a really good time. On his family

[I was] thinking how proud and smart my grandmother looked, and my father, my grandfather and the rest of my family... On Remembrance Sunday

At the moment it's about having fun in the right places, enjoying myself as much as I can.

The fortunate thing is I have had such a normal childhood in certain extents and it would very hard to see that slip away.




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