VIDEO-Harry Wants Someone To 'Share Pressure' With

By Rhiannon Mills, Royal Correspondent

Prince Harry has told Sky News exclusively that he would like to have children now but is just waiting for the right woman.

In his most personal interview in recent years, the Prince said it would be great to have someone to "share the pressure" with.

But, speaking outside his hilltop bungalow on the remote Stewart Island off New Zealand, he admitted it could not be forced and that the "time will come".

He also spoke of his desire to earn a "wage" and to "work with normal people", even though he has not yet decided what he wants to do after he leaves the Armed Forces later this summer.

He said: "There come times when you think now is the time to settle down, or now is not, whatever way it is, but I don't think you can force these things it will happen when it's going to happen.

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"Of course, I would love to have kids right now, but there's a process that one has to go through and... tours like this are great fun.

"Hopefully I'm doing all right by myself. It would be great to have someone else next to me to share the pressure. But, you know, time will come and whatever happens, happens."

During his one-to-one interview with Sky News, he openly chatted about how difficult the decision was to leave the armed forces in June.

He was speaking on the latest leg of his month-long tour Down Under, which has already seen him spend time with the Armed Forces in  Australia and tour New Zealand.

The day before, while visiting Stewart Island, he had been shown how to open oysters and took part in a pub quiz.

He admitted he was like a "zombie" at the end of an incredibly tiring programme in Australia, but said he was hugely grateful for his opportunity, saying "it was everything I joined the Army for, and some. I can't say there was a highlight. It was all amazing."

But, for the first time so openly, he explained his reason for wanting to leave the forces and move on.

"It is a crossroads. I'm in the same position now as other people in my year group, or my rank would be in. Because I'm a non-grad, I'm slightly behind everybody else.

"And most of the guys I joined with ... have already left, for numerous reasons.

"But it is a case of, if we move on, more responsibilities come. And, I suppose with wanting to take on slightly more of (the royal duties) role, I don't really feel I would be in the right position (to help) the careers of more soldiers or to take on the responsibility of continuing to fly, for instance.

"So it is a balance, and I've tried to get it right over the last six months to a year, before I finished. And it was getting hard. As I said: I'm at a crossroads.

"A lot of guys my age, when they get to captain, they leave, and that's because a lot of guys join for the outside, for the excitement of running around in the bush with soldiers and there is a point when you have to take the next step and go to a desk and do staff college and become a major and so on. And with all that comes responsibilities and a lot of your time, which, if I'm doing this sort of stuff, it doesn't work. I don't want people to cover for me."

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He said there were many things he enjoyed about being an active royal but any job he took on should allow him to earn a salary.

"There's a few things on the shortlist," he said. "But I don't want to speculate because I know what people are like.

"As long as people back home ... know that they can trust me, that I'm making the right decision and that whatever it is, it will be something that means I can give something back.

"This part of the role is fantastic but I and William - both of us - feel as though we need to have a wage as well; to work with normal people, to keep us sane, to keep us ticking along.

"In the future, from our point of view, if we want to make a big contribution, or a valid contribution and be taken seriously, then we need to work alongside other people."

He admitted he feels under a lot of pressure to make the right decision, but he does not want to be saddled forever with the tag of 'party prince'. In fact, he said, he "never wanted that".

"If people can trust that I'll make the right decision and hopefully, whatever that is, I'll make them proud. I've got to the stage when I'm very happy that I've done 10 years in the services. There's part of me that - especially post Australia - that would love to keep on doing that."

He said he had been unable to watch as his brother Prince William and sister-in-law the Duchess of Cambridge had introduced their new daughter Princess Charlotte to the world.

But he was looking forward to meeting her.

"I didn't see any coverage at all," he said. "He sent me two photos; one before everybody else, which was nice, and then another - one with her back with George back home.

"So, as I said, I'm so looking forward to seeing her, to meeting her and to holding her.

"She was a little bit late, hence I missed her. So she'll have to work on that!  But apart from that, it's fantastic news for both of them. So I'm thrilled."

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