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concerned about how I’d hurt myself. There was never a big deal when she showed up at the school and she seemed to like that. For us boys she was just William and Harry’s pretty mummy, not a princess.’
    On sports days William and his father would compete in the clay pigeon shooting competition, which they won in 1995. William was just four when he accompanied his father to Sandringhamto watch his first shoot, and like Charles he was an impressive shot from a young age. At Christmas Charles and Diana would attend the school’s annual carol service and watch William when he was in school plays. He loved dressing up and appear ing on the stage and became the head of Ludgrove’s dramatic society, much to his parents’ delight. Kitty Dimbleby, daughter of Prince Charles’s official biographer Jonathan Dimbleby, recalled that Charles would arrange theatre trips for his sons during the school holidays:
    Charles invited us to a production of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
in Stratford-upon-Avon one Easter, and William and Harry loved it. Charles was incredibly proud of them and they had so much fun together that day. We all met at Highgrove and I remember being in the car with William and Harry who was blowing raspberries at his dad through the window. There was a lot of joking around and it was a very normal and lovely family day out. Charles seemed so happy to be with his boys and they with him. I do remember William being distracted by what was going on at home. At the time there was a lot in the newspapers about Charles and Diana’s marriage being in trouble and William told me ‘Papa never embarrasses me but Mummy sometimes does.’
    Publicly the prince and princess put their troubles behind them and when William was injured in a freak playground accident in June 1991 they both rushed to be with him. William had been playing with a friend on the school’s putting green when he was accidentally struck on the head with a golf club. Diana, whohad been lunching at San Lorenzo, her favourite Knightsbridge restaurant, went white according to her bodyguard Ken Wharfe, who received the news on his pager, and it was an agonising journey from London to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. When she arrived it was decided that William should be transferred from Reading to Great Ormond Street so that he could be checked over by a brain specialist. While Charles, who had driven from Highgrove to Reading, followed in convoy, Diana sat in the ambulance with her son holding his hand. At Great Ormond Street he was diagnosed with a depressed fracture and underwent a seventy-minute corrective operation which left him with twenty-four stitches. Charles and Diana waited anxiously at the hospital, but when they were informed that the operation had been successful and William was fine, Charles sped off to the Royal Opera House for an official engagement. Diana was used to her husband’s habit of putting duty before family, but the press turned on the prince. W HAT K IND OF A D AD A RE Y OU? asked the
Sun
on its front page. Fortunately William made a speedy recovery, and although he was advised not to ride his pony, he was back at school within days showing off his war wound. Today he still bears a reminder of the accident, which he calls his Harry Potter scar.
    Harry hurled a pillow with all his might. It hit his target on the head, and as his latest victim toppled from his bed the prince let out a jubilant shout. It was after lights out, and the boys knew there would be trouble if Mr Barber discovered they were still up. Harry had only been at Ludgrove a matter of weeks but he was loving it. He had got off to a wobbly start and beenterribly homesick when he started in September 1992, but William soon helped him settle in, and matron, who had taken an immediate shine to the cheeky little redhead, had allowed him to sit in her room and watch
Star Trek
with a cup of cocoa. It was not long before Harry had persuaded her to allow his