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  • What was it like knowing that so many people outside?

  • After you've given birth and

  • you're in your little cocoon with your new family.

  • Yeah, it was slightly terrifying. I'm not going to lie.

  • Were you like, switching the telly, go

  • "Oh, no. They're covering us as well. They're stood outside."

  • No, it's hard to like decompartmentalise. What's the word?

  • - Compartmentalise? - Compartmentalise, yes.

  • The whole thing. Because, you know,

  • everyone had been so supportive.

  • Both William and I were really conscious that, you know, this was sort of

  • something that everyone was excited about.

  • And we were hugely grateful for all the support

  • that the public had shown us. And actually, for us to

  • be able to share that joy and

  • appreciation with the public I felt

  • was really important, but equally

  • it was coupled with

  • a newborn baby and sort of inexperienced parents

  • and the uncertainty about what that held.

  • So there was all sorts of sort of mixed emotions and

  • How I was after giving birth did you come out?

  • Oh, my gosh. I can't remember. Everything was a bit of a blur.

  • I think I stayed, I did stay in hospital overnight.

  • I remember it was one of the hottest day and night, with huge thunderstorms.

  • So I didn't get a huge amount sleep.

  • But George did which was really great. But I was keen to go home

  • Because for me being in hospital,

  • I had all the memories of being in hospital because of being sick.

  • So it wasn't sort of as if I wanted to hang out,

  • hang around. So I was really desperate to get home

  • and get back to normality.

  • But I think you think,

  • particular with a first-born baby, you think that everything is going to

  • go back to how it was.

  • I totally underestimated

  • the impact and the change it had on our lives.

  • from that moment really and I think unless you've

  • got children

  • you don't realise no amount of planning and

  • preparation can get you ready for that moment.

  • I can remember just

  • sitting and watching and waiting for you to come out of the hospital.

  • And it was that massive feeling of celebration.

  • And also, the Duke when he put Prince George

  • in the car, that was seamless.

  • But people didn't really think so at the time.

  • What do we do? He's in a sort, in a swaddle.

  • How's this supposed to work?

  • He even tried to practice with a little baby

  • doll at home.

  • But you know, it just never works out the way you've planned it.

  • It was quite hard to do that, I think, on the world stage.

  • But I think he did a very good job.

  • Was there like a sigh of relief when you actually got in the car

  • and drove off?

  • But also, you're driving away with a newborn baby. It's the most

  • I've heard stories about mums who sort of

  • took their child out of the car seat and put it on the sofa

  • and didn't want to touch it.

  • Because they're worried about they were going to do the wrong thing

What was it like knowing that so many people outside?

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