Kate Middleton and Prince William (Pic:Getty Images)The journalist entrusted with conducting Prince William and Kate Middleton's official engagement interview today said the pair were attempting to "block out the terror of having two billion people" watching them tomorrow.
Tom Bradby, ITN political editor and William's friend, told ITV's Daybreak: "I think there has been a really concerted attempt to block it out and just concentrate on their marriage.
"The church is going to be full of many, many people, a lot of whom they've never met, and they just want to think about themselves and what it means to them."
Mr Bradby, a former royal correspondent, will attend the wedding as a guest.
Mr Bradby said William was determined to protect his fiancee from intrusion into their lives.
"I have really been struck over the last 10 years about how determined he has been to protect," he said.
"He looked at his mother and what happened to her and it didn't take a genius to draw the lessons that he's obviously drawn from it - which is he doesn't want that sort of chaos in his life.
"He's tried to effectively create this iron wall around his friends and his girlfriend.
"You kind of worry for them that this is the moment the world gets let in."
Discussing their engagement interview, "part of the historical record", he said the content was discussed beforehand to avoid it being a repeat of the tense Charles and Diana interview. "I'd forgotten how bad it was, actually. It was absolutely agonisingly awful," he said of it.
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