Prince Charles was a full-time working royal and Princess Diana was a city girl, so their base from the time of William's birth was Kensington Palace in London. William's mother Diana took him to McDonalds, on the tube and the bus, while his nursery was a few streets away on a busy public road. Paparazzi often followed them. His dose of the great outdoors came at weekends when the family decamped to Highgrove in Gloucester.