The 34-year-old royal, father to son Prince George, 3, and Princess Charlotte, 1, made his comments in an interview on the Talk Vietnam show on VTV-TV in Hanoi Thursday, the second and last day of his visit to Vietnam. He is in the country to attend the third International Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade.
“Well, as the other parents in the room will testify, there’s wonderful highs and there’s wonderful lows. It’s been quite a change for me, personally. I’m very lucky in the support I have from Catherine,” William said about wife Kate Middleton, whose official title is Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. “She is an amazing mother and a fantastic wife.”
William had made similar comments to CNN in 2013, saying George reminded him of himself and brother Prince Harry.
“Charlotte is, bearing in mind I’ve never had a sister, so having a daughter is a very different dynamic,” William said on Talk Vietnam. “So I’m learning about having a daughter and having a girl in the family.”
“He keeps me on my toes,” he said. “But he’s a sweet boy.”
“I think there’s a lot of huge aspirations and people living with an enormous amount of stuff that they don’t necessarily need,” he added. “The materialism of the world I find quite tricky sometimes.”
