"It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well."

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Source: William: my normal life as a student prince by Peter Archer, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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