00:08When did you first hear that William was coming here to St Andrews?
00:12I think I heard when it became public knowledge.
00:14We didn't have any inside track.
00:16So it was when it became public knowledge in the media, I noticed.
00:22But of course at that stage I didn't think it would have anything to do with me.
00:25When you did discover that you were going to be teaching him,
00:28how did you feel about that?
00:30Well, it was interesting.
00:32It's like every day you get to teach the Future King.
00:34So yes, we all sort of sat up and took notice,
00:38but in another sense he was simply going to be another student.
00:43So we didn't sort of deviate from the way we were operating.
00:48We simply carried on as normal.
00:51Why do you think that he chose to come here?
00:54It's an interesting question.
01:00I would hope one of the reasons he came here is because it's a university of excellent reputation,
01:07an ancient university that is world renowned both for its research and its teaching.
01:13So it's a high quality place to come.
01:15I hope that was part of the decision making process.
01:20I think inevitably there probably was also a security consideration.
01:23It's easier to look after him, someone of that stature in a place like this that is remote
01:31and sort of stuck out on the coast than it would be in the middle of a cosmopolitan city like
01:36Edinburgh or London.
01:39When you were dealing with him in a one-to-one situation, what was he like?
01:47He's a really nice young man.
01:50I warmed to him, he was very natural, understated, he didn't push himself forward.
01:59He was very keen to ensure that his presence didn't disrupt things.
02:04He wanted to be treated absolutely normally in all circumstances and he was just a good regular guy.
02:12Do you feel you got to know him quite well?
02:15Latterly I did, towards the end of his time.
02:19In the first two years he was a face in the crowd, as I have to say most students are.
02:24Unless a student is your personal tutee in your tutorial group.
02:29First and second year classes are very large and there's a sea of faces out there.
02:34And you teach them, but most of them you have no idea who they are, what their names are, anything
02:38about them.
02:39He was one of those, he was a face in the crowd.
02:43But you did get to know him much better later on, can you tell me about that?
02:47Yes, in the third and fourth year when he was in honours geography,
02:54he came to see me because he was planning to do a dissertation project in my area.
03:03And so we discussed that for a while.
03:05We had several meetings in my office.
03:08In the end he didn't do that project, he went and did something else.
03:12But I had one-to-one interactions with him then.
03:17Then more particularly, between the third and fourth year in the summer of his, between his third and fourth years
03:26here,
03:27he was part of a geography field trip that we take every year to Norway, to central Norway.
03:34And he was part of that trip.
03:36We spent about a week in the central mountains of Norway up by the ice caps in a very remote
03:43location.
03:43And he was part of the student group that year.
03:47And inevitably, when you're away somewhere, based on a campsite, eating, spending all day together, you get to know someone
03:57pretty well.
03:58And how did he fit in with his fellow students and how did they react to him, especially under these
04:06circumstances?
04:07Oh, he fitted him brilliantly.
04:10But by that stage, his fellow students had got completely used to him.
04:15Inevitably, the first few weeks of the first year, it was a bit of a moment to have Prince William
04:22on our doorstep.
04:23And I think both students and staff were inevitably just kind of aware.
04:29By the third year, he was, he was one of the crowd.
04:32People had, I was going to say almost forgotten who he was.
04:36I mean, of course you don't, but, but we're treating him completely as, you know, another student, just one of
04:42the crowd.
04:42So the students around him were treating him like they would any other student.
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