audience. he was born a prince, but raised in a broken home. >> his little 7-year-old william saying, i hate to see you sad, mommy. >> she's the shy commoner who finally fit the glass slipper. >> she's not someone who's growing up in a castle or a palace. >> the rocky courtship. >> are they going to get married or are they not going to get married. >> and wild wedding. now the real work begins. to raise an heir to the throne. to modernize the monarchy. to learn how to be will and kate, plus 1. it was the moment the world had been waiting for.

the most talked about courtship of the century. the royal wedding that would mark a new era for the british monarchy and a new way of doing things, with william and kate breaking tradition almost every step of the way. >> they did everything themselves. and whatever flower they wanted. all of that was chosen by them. and i think that was the first time i saw them in the wrong family. >> westminster abby is where it all officially began for the duke and duchess of cambridge. billions watched as william and

kate married here back in 2011. and almost immediately after the couple said i do, the speculation began. when would the next royal baby arrive? >> because one job kate has to immediately ask after the wedding, was get pregnant. >> author katie nickle has been writing about the royal family for the last decade. and is they decided they would not go with scotland. they would go to the seychelles instead. >> it really shows how thoughtful they are, and they do things their way. you can see their voice and their opinion, in pretty much all of their life choices.

>> because one job kate has to immediately ask after the wedding, was get pregnant. >> author katie nickle has been writing about the royal family for the last decade. and is they decided they would not go with scotland. they would go to the seychelles instead. >> it really shows how thoughtful they are, and they do things their way. you can see their voice and their opinion, in pretty much all of their life choices. >> i think this is a very modern

william and kate would delay taking on full-time roles as working royals, and spend their first years of married life in a rented farmhouse, on the remote welsh island of anglesey. >> they lived near this beach? >> a few miles behind it. >> william hughes is the head of tourism in anglesey. >> their house is pretty normal. it's not spectacular in the way people would expect. they're not living in a castle or a mansion. >> windswept, remote, incredibly beautiful, secluded, and that gives them privacy, and that's fortunate. >> it really couldn't be further from the life that they will be facing and living when they're back in london. i mean, the pressures, the job, and the paparazzi. >> that's why it is a utopia for them.

>> kate and william are often seen around town, enjoying a pint, browsing the shops, or even picking up groceries. in fact, locals call the duchess a pretty savvy shopper, known to make meat pies and homemade gravy for william. >> immediately after their wedding day, what did we see? we saw kate pushing a shopping trolley around the car park of her local supermarket. it doesn't get more ordinary than that. and that's their stamp, that's their imprint. >> even on the world stage, the couple would at times appear very unroyal, like at this dragon boat race in canada during their first official overseas visit. >> you could see the look of excitement on her face as she got into the boat and was ready at the helm.

and you could also see the look of frustration that william had beaten her. >> she truly did look frustrated that she was defeated. this is a couple that can't finish a game of tennis, because they're so competitive.

but he gave her a hug, and actually that moment was also really significant, because you don't see royal cuddling. you just don't see it. but these two are not afraid of breaching royal protocol and actually showing the world, you know what, we're really happy together. >> after their first year of marriage, while william served a as a search and rescue pilot with the air force, kate slowly stepped out for royal engagements on her own, choosing charities to support like east anjali's children hospital. >> about 400 families, we look after. >> graham butler is the organization's executive director. >> on that first visit, her approach was just so natural. it was as if she was blind to the disability, but could see the child. and that's, of course, takes some skill. >> the spotlight was absolutely fixed on her. every engagement that she carried out, the world was watching. >> her true test would be her first official speech, one she gave for the charity. >> and i feel hugely honored to be here, to see this wonderful contest. >> there were six, seven satellite vans in our car park. it was going around the world. >> i'm only sorry that william can't be here today. >> i think she did a very good job. it really can't be easy to do that with that much pressure on you. >> but there was perhaps no greater pressure on kate those first years than to produce an heir. >> i think there was a level of surprise that it had taken quite some time. >> and it took no time for bump watch to kick in to high gear. >> every time she wore a dress that was a little flowy, every time she put her clutch in front of her waist, i mean, the examples upon examples of all of the speculation, is everything.

she wouldn't eat peanut paste, said she was pregnant. >> i was there on that trip in copenhagen, and i remember, it was a discussion amongst the reporters there, why is she not eating peanut paste? and it was just relentless. >> when kate finally did get pregnant, she couldn't hide it. >> the duchess was admitted to this hospital with acute morning sickness last december. then the palace had no choice but to announce the pregnancy, though she wasn't even 12 weeks along at the time. >> i think it took everyone by surprise. it wasn't just the announcement of a pregnancy, it was the announcement that the duchess is seriously sick. >> later, a pregnancy in jeopardy. >> it affected kate particularly badly. >> but first, growing up for prince william, a childhood marked by tragedy and scandal. 3 chamber laundry detergent.y ♪ now, here you go, let it go ♪ ooh ♪ 'cause it's a bright light stain fighting, cleaning, and brightening...

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this was the story of charles and diana. june 21st, 1982, the couple welcomed prince william arthur phillip louis. >> may we see your son, your royal highness? >> the world just rejoiced and i think it was great they emerged from the hospital and were showing themselves to be modern royals. >> from the start, william's life was one contrast after another. a future king of a thousand-year-old monarchy raised in an entirely new way. lana marcus was princess diana's close friend and confidant. >> william was raised very differently than the previous generations of royals, in that though he did have official royal nannies, diana, fulfilled much of that role herself in taking the boys everywhere, collecting them from school, taking them on vacation.

>> being raised as an ordinary boy, rather than a prince. >> diana really did break that mold. >> she did. >> prince charles, the way he was raised, very different than how his sons were raised. >> yes, charles was raised by governesses. he didn't see his parents for the first few months of his life. >> in those early months and years, william was often seen by his parent's side. as heir to the throne, that also meant growing up in the public eye. >> from the moment he was born, prince william was in the spotlight, every time he left the protective grounds of kensington palace, cameras followed. >> i remember william's first-ever day at his pre-prep school in north london. >> ken wharf was a bodyguard for diana and her sons for more than seven years. >> diana said to him, when we get to school, there will be lots of photographers.

and he said, you know, i don't like photographers, in this very just williamesque way. and we arrived at the school and there, outside the school, there were about 120, 130 photographers, waiting for william's first day at school. what she was trying to say to william, look, you've got to live with this, you're going to get this for the rest of your life. >> for william, it would be a lifelong struggle, walking the line between a desire for privacy and the very public duties of growing up royal. and it would only get worse. william was just a boy when his parent's rocky relationship spiralled into a global scandal. >> william became sort of the fixer. he loved both of his parents, tried to, you know, he wanted everybody to be happy together. >> christopher anderson wrote

the book, "william and kate: a royal love story." you know, here's this little boy when her mother locks herself in the boy after an argument with charles, and she's sobbing, and here's little 7-year-old william, slipping tissues under the door, and saying, i hate to see you sad, mummy. >> as william got older, diana made sure he was prepared for all the scrutiny he would face. >> william was old enough to read the papers, although the head master at the school made a point of keeping them out of his reach. >> did he really? >> yeah, he did, in order to protect him. but then william moved to eaton and you couldn't hide newspapers from william and the other boys. they were interested. he wasn't just a son, i think over time, he became a confidant to diana. so he took an awful lot on. >> it is announced from buckingham palace that, with regret, the prince and princess of wales have decided to separate. >> by august 1996, william's parents finally divorced. yes even in the midst of living in this fish bowel of tragedy,

scandal, and speculation, there were many moments of normalcy. >> they were watching tv and munch potato chips. she would take them to mcdonald's. she would do regular things with the boys, and she would hug them and kiss them and show them affection. >> as a teen, william was coming into his own, learning to live in the public eye, and living out the lessons his father and mother taught him. >> this was a woman who insisted on taking her children out of the palace, into hospitals, into hospices, to meet the homeless, to do the serious, gritty work that a royal should do. and i think also, charles deserves credit as well, because he also was being very proactive. >> and just as the dust settled on the divorce -- >> this is cnn breaking news. >> -- an unspeakable tragedy. >> the french government has informed all of us that princess diana has died.

>> a high-speed pursuit by the paparazzi and the fatal crash in a paris tunnel that killed princess diana, taking william's mother from him at the age of 15. >> he's at that quite difficult transition stage, an adolescent, a boy going into manhood, and not to have his mother there, the person who he could always count on, who he absolutely adored, i think is a loss that he will feel forever. >> after the very public funeral, william withdrew and not long after, the palace and the press forged an unspoken agreement, giving both william and harry space and privacy. the world got quick glimpses, though all carefully choreographed by the palace. so william grew up and quietly began dating.

>> he began dating some of the more beautiful, titled ladies. he tried an online romance with britney spears at one point, that never really got off the ground. >> but playful young romances aside, william knew finding a mate would be serious business. he'd have to find a woman willing to put up with the relentless scrutiny. and to do that, he would once again have to break from royal tradition. >> she's not an aristocrat, she's not somebody who's grown up in a castle or a palace. she was one of the very few girls from a working class background. >> when we come back, the making of the woman who would be queen. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. mmmhmmm...everybody knows that. well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller? your word is...cow.

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buckleberry berkshire, the quiet english countryside. gentle, rolling hills, quaint country pubs. it's the place kate middleton calls home. >> wherever you go, it's just fabulous around here. there's two pubs in the village and there's a church and that's all. >> john hailey owns one of those pubs. >> what is the community like? would you say people keep to themselves or is it tight-knit and kind of everybody knows everybody's business? >> it's a good mix. no, nobody knows nobody else's

business, but they do look after each other. >> hailey has known the middletons for 16 years. >> they're just part of the community and they mix well, they've got loads of friends because they've been here many, many years. so they're just like any other family. they're just great, a great family. >> carol goldsmith and michael middleton met while working for a british airline. they married in 1980. the oldest of three children, kate was born in 1982. >> what i've heard from other folks is that she was as normal as normal could be. she came from a normal upbringing. >> just a normal working class family. i mean, they both work, because the parents, carol and mike, and all the family are. so just a normal working class family. >> kate was baptized at this church. she was a brownie in the local scout group and loved being in school plays. such a normal, ordinary childhood for a woman in line to one day be queen. >> i think they were a family that always did things together. they enjoyed nice holidays. they drove nice cars. but it wasn't always the case. they came from pretty modest

upbringing, pretty modest start in life. and it was really because of carol's desire to improve their position and to build that family business. >> they sold supplies for children's parties and soon spun it into an online internet empire worth millions. >> it was carol who saw that this business really had legs to grow, and of course, when that happened and there was money in the bank, they decided to invest in their children's education. >> as the middleton saw success, they sent their kids to private schools. kate was 13 when she came here to downe house. arriving confident and happy. but that would soon change. >> she joined at the age of 13, rather than 11, and most of the girls had started at 11, so they were already -- >> they already had their circles. >> they did. and i think it was very difficult for her to find her feet there.

>> she became the victim of the mean girls in the school. there was malicious gossip about her background, because she was one of the very few girls from a working class background, attending that school. >> carol middleton wasted no time. she immediately switched kate to a nearby boarding school. >> marlborough was a big school. >> alley baines went to school with kate. >> boarding schools, if they're not happy, are miserable. there's very, very few in between. >> for kate, it was a tough start. >> you have to forget the glossy finessed image of the duchess of cambridge that you see on the television, and remember that particularly as a young woman, she was quite shy, she was quite introvert, compared to pippa, who was outgoing and gregarious and socialable, kate was much quieter. she was a different character. and it took some drawing out of her shell. >> carol middleton once again stepped in. >> her mother actually set out to transform her.

she combed out her kind of lush, chestnut hair, got her wearing makeup for the first time. so when she reappeared in school, it was a new person. >> it was here at marlborough where kate really came out of her shell. popular, athletic, and a serious student. but she also had a bit of a wild side. according to one friend, she was known to moon the boys from her dorm window, earning her the nickname, kate middlebum. >> there's a reason to be happy at school. it was great fun and she was a very pretty girl. >> yet kate didn't date much, and despite her denials, many who knew her then insists she set her sights much higher than her prep school classmates. >> i talked to too many friends who said, yes, she always had this picture over her bed in her dorm, it was a picture of william in fishing gear. so she did have her sights set on him, like a lot of young women her age. >> winter 2000, kate would come close to meeting her prince. after her graduation from marlborough, both kate and

william traveled to chile with the same youth volunteer group, but they just missed each other. malcolm sutherland was their expedition leader. >> i think it's incredible for a start that the fact that william and kate didn't even know each other. this is kate sitting in front. >> for both, it was hard work. they helped build buildings, teach english, even clean toilets in the same small town in chile. >> kate's tough. she's a sporty, fit lady. she knew what she was about. she knew how to look after herself. >> while kate missed william that winter, chris anderson says carol middleton made sure that wouldn't happen again. >> originally, kate wanted to go to eddinborough university. when it was announced that williams would be attending st. andrews university, enrollment among women in st. andrews

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fall 2001. william arrived as a freshman at the university of st. andrews in scotland. it was far from home and again breaking the royal mold. most royals went to cambridge or oxford. >> i really did want to be in control of my own life. and i hate losing control and it's very important, so, to, you know, see what you want to do and go for it. >> and at st. andrews, william would get protection from the

press. >> he agreed to give a number of televised interviews during his school years at st. andrews. >> deep down, i am, you know, pretty normal. >> but apart from those occasions, he was to be left in peace. >> i met him pretty much as soon as we arrived. and incredibly quickly, this group of friends formed. >> jules knight became one of williams' closest friends. >> there were no real airs and graces, if you would like. to me, he's just another guy. he's a very down to earth, normal guy. >> one of the first girls to join their circle of friends, the equally down to earth and normal kate middleton. >> i got to know her pretty early on. she was a very delightful girl, very charming. >> maybe a bit shy, though, when first meeting the future king of england. >> i just went bright red when i met you and kind of scuttled off, feeling very shy about -- about meeting you. >> and not long after, william invited a number of friends to

his dormitory room, she automatically did this awkward curtesy, and he reacted by automatically spilling his drink on himself. he would do things like this to put people at ease, and from then on, they became friendly. >> william and kate quickly became friends, bonding over their live of art history, and during early morning swims at the local pool. >> another connection, a shared sense of humor. >> she's got a really nice sense of humor, which kind of helps me, because i've got a very dense sense of humor. so it was good fun. we had a really good laugh. >> but it wasn't all fun for william. >> he had all the same stresses and pressures as every student does. >> charles warren was one of his professors. >> he was panicking about approaching deadlines and, you know, struggling with some of it, like all, you know, most of us students do. >> he actually did seem a bit

low and unhappy, and i remember thinking, distinctly, i don't know if he's enjoying this much. you're a long way from london. you know, it's in the middle of nowhere, really. and to think, oh, my god, i've got to spend the next four years here is pretty intense. >> reporter: william and kate attended art history lectures in this building. the first year was a tough one for william, struggling with the pressures of his work and being far from friends and family. he almost quit. >> he went home for christmas after the first semester. he did, he had a wobble, and he said to his father, you know, i don't know if this is for me. >> friends say it was kate who helped convince william to stay. and as soon as he returned from christmas break, everything changed. >> the turning point really came when william watched kate in that now-infamous charity fashion show. >> it was march 2002, the annual st. andrews charity fashion show. and on the catwalk, kate. >> i remember that specific night very well. >> jules knight was watching the show that night with william.

>> she wasn't what you call a kind of risque girl, as i say, she was a pretty safe bet, and here she was, not wearing that much, looking amazing. i think everyone did think, wow. >> but that was the moment when he suddenly realized that his friend was actually very hot, and he rather quite liked her. >> and the next fall, when william and kate moved into this flat together with a couple of friends, their friendship turned romantic. >> it just sort of -- it sort of blossomed from there, really. we just saw more of each other and hung out a bit more and did stuff, so, yeah -- >> you looked my cooking. >> well, your cooking was all right. it's got better. >> living with a girlfriend was almost unheard of for a member of the royal family. >> it was controversial, but i think it was felt that they didn't want the mistakes of the past, they didn't want history repeating itself, and this was an opportunity for the couple to

really get to know each other. >> and to really get to know each other, the world's most famous prince knew he had to keep his relationship a secret. >> they had a policy of never holding hands, never being seen to be publicly affectionate with each other. if they were invited to dinner parties, they would often arrive separately. >> by the end of their second year at st. andrews, they were in love. william had found the normalcy he craved in kate. >> she's not an aristocrat, she's not somebody who's grown up in a castle or a palace. you know, she's sort of pretty normal, really. >> kate brought william home to spend weekends with her parents in buckleburry. >> and he loves going for dinner around the house in berkshire and he loves being part of something, which is actually, yeah, standard. >> and behind the walls of st. andrews, william could live like an ordinary student. >> i do all my shopping and i would go and get takeaway, rent

videos, go to the cinema, just basically anything i wanted, really. >> i remember, you know, we walked out of the park called ma bell's, which is where we went a lot, and we were quite drunk, and i think i saw a pellet gun on the floor, someone has discarded this sort of toy gun. so i picked it and i was like waving it around, and he grabbed it out of my jacket pocket. and he was like holding it in the air. and suddenly, even in my drunk state, i was like, this is probably not a good idea. >> if william was wild, jules says kate was always in control. >> and by the spring of 2004, william was ready to introduce his girlfriend to the world. >> if you take somebody to cloisters skiing, which is the place that your family had been going for the last however many

years, it's a pretty clear sign that he's saying to everybody, this is the girl in my life. >> coming up, the perfect romance abruptly ends. >> prince charles says, you can't keep stringing this girl along. if you're not ready to ask her to marry you, break it off.

at st. andrew's, prince william lived happily and privately. but as graduation arrived, the agreement that kept the press at bay was gone. >> the protection that they had enjoyed had finished and it was open season, as far as everyone was concerned from then on. >> open season on william and now on his girlfriend, kate. >> well, i think when they left st. andrews, that was the real testing point for kate. could she cope with the fact that there were photographers outside her flat every single day?

>> the pressure was relentless and a terrifying remindering of what had happened to princess diana. >> you know, the accident that's happening isn't happening in the streets of paris, it's happening in the streets of london and it's happening to kate. >> with the press following her every move and william forced to be away during his military training, kate was left wondering, what was next. >> they had this period of time when they were basically together, but nothing was happening, and everyone was going, oh, are they going to get married or are they not going to get married? like, make your mind up. >> william seemed to have a lot on miss mind, including what was fair to kate. >> at one point he said, you know, i was born into this, she wasn't. and do -- does she deserve this kind of treatment? am i -- should i be subjecting her to this? >> but kate, she was ready. >> she really demanded that he commit, as they say, and william wasn't ready for it. he went to his father, prince charles, and prince charles said, you can't keep stringing this girl along if you're not

ready to ask her to marry you, break it off. >> publicly and painfully, william decided to break it off. so kate went back to bucklebury. >> she did what she always does when she's under pressure and in a difficult situation, and that's go home and be protected and looked after by her family. and it was very much carol who said, okay, you can have your weekend of mourning and your tears and then you're going to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and go and show him what he's missing, and that's exactly what kate did. >> do you think that he saw something that he hadn't seen before? >> well, we certainly saw something that we haven't seen before. we saw kate in plunging necklines and mini dresses and just looking fabulous and showing a confidence and radiating. >> so i remember having lunch with her when they split up. it was sort of quite evident that she was -- she was being very forthright. she was like, right, i'm getting on with my life. fine. cool. and you know, it hasn't worked

out. that's behind me. let's move on. and she was very calm and levelheaded and strong about it. and i think he thought, oh, my god. >> he came unglued. he really started, you know, drinking too much, he went out with his buddies to various clubs. he was very obviously adrift, emotionally, and it didn't help to have him see pictures of kate having the time of his life. >> i think i, at the time, wasn't very happy about it, but, actually, it made me a stronger person. you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realized 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. >> if the breakup made kate stronger, it made william certain he never wanted to be without her again. back together and vacationing in the seychelles, kate and william made a deal. >> william had a military career and a training program to complete.

and he knew he had to do that before he got married, but the pledge was, if you wait, there'll be a ring at the end of the day. >> quietly, the pair and the palace began planning. >> you can see how much work had been taking place behind the scenes. she was being trained, she was being groomed, and she was being prepared for a far more important role, which is queen in waiting. >> there was also the matter of kate getting to know her future in-laws. >> the palace and the queen were acutely aware of mistakes that had been made with diana, that she felt isolated and ostracized and that they were determined that they shouldn't happen to kate. >> and that would take a special effort, beginning with prince charles. >> kate said that she was very nervous about meeting william's father for the first time. but i think charles went out of his way to make her feel welcome. >> after nearly ten years of secrecy, breakups, pressure, and paparazzi, it was finally time for william to pop the question.

>> we had a little private time away together, with some friends, and i just decided that it was the right time, really. and we'd been talking about marriage for a while. so it wasn't massively a big surprise, but i took her up somewhere nice in kenya and proposed. >> it was very romantic. there's a true romantic in there. >> and that long-promised ring. >> i've been carrying around with me in my rucksack for about three weeks before that, and i was keeping ahold of it. it's my mother's engagement ring, so i thought it was quite nice, because obviously, she's not going to be around to share in any of the fun and excitement of all of this. so this is my way of keeping her sort of close to it all. >> charles and diana had a really quite difficult start, because diana stole the limelight, without necessarily wanting to. >> well, when i went to canada and north america with the

couple, yes, people were chanting for kate, but they were also chanting for william. so right from the outset, the dynamic was very, very different. >> more that they were equals? that they saw each other as equals. >> i think that's exactly the word, they were equals. they started out as equals, and it wasn't just the kate show, it was the william and kate show. >> and they took that show on the road, from a spectacular wedding. to wind-swept anglesey. to their first overseas tour. >> thank you very much. >> coming up next, a royal baby announcement quickly overshadowed by tragedy. >> to have the trauma and the tragedy of a suicide over what should have been the happiest announcement of their lives, i

think, must have been truly awful.

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and two years later, pregnant. and yet the royal family could not escape the worst of news in what should have been the best of times. the joy of the pregnancy was quickly eclipsed by tragedy. a nurse at this hospital killed herself after accidentally putting through a prank call that revealed private details of kate's condition. kate was said to be devastated. >> of course, she was still seriously ill, very hormonal, still hoping, desperately, that she was going to hold on to this pregnancy. to have the trauma and the tragedy of a suicide over what should have been the happiest announcement of their lives, i think, must have been truly awful. >> so kate left the hospital and soon returned, perhaps not surprisingly, to the comfort of home in bucklebury. >> christmas of that year, how was it different? >> they decided that they would

spend christmas with her family, so that she could be relaxed and she could put her feet up, that's something that really doesn't happen when you're in the royal residence. >> but even christmas had its complications. when you're part of the world's most famous family, what do you get the royal who has everything? >> the answer to that question is something small, preferably homemade, and if you can inject a bit of humor in it, all the better. so she gave harry a girlfriend kid, and she had taken up jam making back in anglesey, something she really enjoyed doing, so she would jar up her jam and gave pots of preserves to the family members, which i think went down very, very well. >> back home in anglesey, more domestic bliss, though william has never claimed any of the credit. >> i would say i'm getting better cooking. kate would say i'm getting a lot worse. >> i didn't give you enough

practice. >> i get quite lazy about cooking. when i come back from work and stuff, the last thing i want to do, is spend time cooking. but when i was trying to impress kate, i would try to cook these amazing, fancy dinners, and all would happen is i would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire, and she would be sitting in the background and just trying to help and basically taking control of the whole situation. so i was quite glad she was there at the time. >> as her pregnancy progressed, kate readied the nursery and the new apartment. she also kept an ambitious work schedule. >> i remember being at the national portrait gallery with her one evening, thinking, she should be tucked up in bet, but she was in 4-inch stiletto jimmy choo heels, giving a speech and meeting people from the art room. >> to john hailey, it's not unusual, it's just kate. >> you know, she's not covering, she's kate. we know her as kate and always has done. still comes in and she's just herself. >> and even in her hometown, the baby became a source of great circulation.

>> and we've got an actual charity where people are saying, will it be a boy or girl, what wait will it be? so i can't wait to see her push the baby past the pub in the program. >> and that could happen sooner than anyone might think. after the baby is born, some reports say kate will bring the baby to her parent's home, here in the english countryside, breaking from royal tradition. not a surprise, though, to many, considering kate's tight-knit bond with her family. >> now, i understand it with, because you do want to be with your mother or you want your mother around. >> is that of any concern to the palace, how -- that she would do that? >> for her family to be included in everything and in her life is of paramount importance to her, and therefore, to prince william. >> most believe that kate and william will hire a nanny to help, but unlike royals in the past, will also remain very involved in every stage of the child's life.

>> i image that kate will want a very hands-on role. i imagine she'll want to be very involved with whatever the nanny is doing. i don't think she'll see a royal nursery as a domain that won't be hers. it will very much be hers and william's. i think they'll look at their own families. diana was very hands-on and michael and carol were very hands-on with kate and they'll want to bring that into their own family dynamic. >> they're just as sure to try to avoid the mistakes of the past, especially when it comes to managing the pressure of the media. >> i'm really thirsty for the first picture. and if they comply with sort of things lightning that at the beginning, quite soob, the sort of heat goes off of it, as far as i can see. because i think the media do have a respect very much for prince william, because there is a lot of guilt about that perhaps how they treated the princess of wales. >> and yet there's no getting

around the simple fact, that this baby, whether a boy or a girl, will be in line for the throne. >> as the queen's cousin, what does this baby, do you think, mean to the queen herself? >> i think an enormous amount. she's going to see there is a continuity there and i think it must be such a relief. >> a continuity for the monarchy and yet, if history is any indication, kate and william will keep doing things their own way. >> i think you'll see them push royal boundaries, break royal mold, and forge their own way forward for the future. >> is the monarchy evolving? >> i think the monarchy is changing now and preparing itself for the future. >> the royal family is built on tradition and heritage and continuity. it's the great dynasty in the world. but in order to move forward, it has to modernize.

it has to change. and this baby is going to be so important, because it will be the future. welcome to this "a.c. 360" special report, not guilty, the zimmerman trial. tonight we're going inside the verdict. the world now knows that george zimmerman have been found not guilty of all charges for killing trayvon martin. as you know, six jurors made that decision. this hour, my exclusive interview with one of those jurors, the first juror to speak publicly. she wants to only be known by her official designation, juror b-37. she reveals a lot, including what persuaded her, what moved her, what role if any that race played and what she would say to the parents of the young man whose killer she and five others exonerated. when you first gathered together, what was it like? did you know how big -- >> it was unreal. it was unreal. it was like something that -- why would they want to pick me?