[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

I love meeting people and helping them.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.