life boat and after she poured the champagne william bowed to her with her hands like that, an acknowledgement that this was her first public engagement and she did it brilliantly. reporter: yet their lives are not dictated by palace and protocol. unlike past royal couples, william and kate settled far from london s palaces in a small house in remote north wales. william is an raf rescuer and he plucks hikers off mountaintops and meanwhile kate is keeping the home fires burning at their little house in north wales. no one cooking dinner and cleaning. it s going to be different than charles and diana. no big stately home. not yet anyway. he s going to go to work, do his shift, come home, chill, watch tv, probably go and get a video, get some pizza. that s the way they are going to live their life. it was the way kate grew up in rural bucklebury, normal,