Breaking News: I set out to discover what Prince Harry was really like behind the spotlight

At Prince Harry’s last milestone birthday, his future looked to be set in stone. A road of royal duty ahead,

regularly voted the most popular member of his family, and actively in search of someone to settle down with, the 30-year-old Harry was fourth in line to the throne and at the heart of a newly streamlined Firm.

Then, he was weighing up his options as he left the Army, speaking of hopes that he would find someone to have children with, and a job with a wage and “normal people” as colleagues. He was, he said, at a “crossroads”.

He celebrated his birthday, just after his first Invictus Games, with a black-tie party at Clarence House thrown by his brother, with Highgrove champagne sent by his father.

A decade on, as the Duke of Sussex turns 40, and everything has changed.

As the sun rises over his Californian home on September 15, Harry could be forgiven for congratulating himself on achieving part of what he set out to do: he has one of the most famous marriages in the world, with two small children he dotes on.