With Charles and Harry in tow, Prince William captivates Canada Prince William didn't say much but his words were poetry to 14-year-old Toni Dixon. As one of 3,000 fans -- mostly young, female and frantic -- who gathered to gape at Great Britain's future king, 15, and his brother Harry, 13, at a high school in Burnaby, B.C., on March 24, the teen was overcome by postencounter emotion. "I was shaking, but [as William walked by] I held out my flowers," she recalls. "He looked into my eyes all the time and said, 'Thank you. It was nice to meet you.' It was so beautiful! Then I started bawling."

Indeed, during his visit to Canada with Harry and their father, Charles, William walked the fine line between pinup and prince. At several stops, girls shouted, "William, will you marry me?" while others thrust forward teddy bears and bouquets. "Charles was long overshadowed by his glamorous wife," says veteran royals reporter Judy Wade, one of 300 members of the press who descended on Canada with the royal three, "but now his good-looking son is stealing the spotlight." It was William, though, and not his proud papa, who seemed to mind. After arriving in Vancouver with companion Tiggy Legge-Bourke (Charles and Harry, per security, flew separately), William flashed only an uneasy grin at the waiting photographers and cheering teens gathered at the Waterfront Centre hotel. (The trio's $1,200-a-night suite was stocked with chocolates and CDs by Savage Garden, Oasis and the Spice Girls.) And the next day he requested that the press be barred from his and Harry's visit to the Pacific Space Centre museum. "He was unsettled by the welcome," says British Press Association reporter Peter Archer. But William, like his mother, also showed a sense of duty. After two hours at the Space Centre, where the boys shot off rockets, took a simulated trip to Mars and played computer games ("There was lots of elbow nudging as if to say, 'I'm doing better than you,' " reports museum employee Darryl Wallin), they joined Charles on a tour of Burnaby South school -- an idea William had agreed to as a way to make up for the nixed Space Centre photo call. And if Harry grinned more broadly than his brother as the pair made their way through the crowds, it was William who sought out school officials to shake their hands. Noticeably more relaxed by day's end, he even mugged for the cameras. When the princes received Canadian Olympic team caps, he playfully turned his backward and held out his arms, rapper-style. By the evening of March 24, the princes were off to ski at Whistler, 60 miles north of Vancouver. At the resort -- where the royals were guests of Ontario Lt. Gov. Hilary Weston and her billionaire husband, Galen -- the boys hit the toughest trails, played hockey with some locals and snowboarded, the latter without Dad. ("I'm much too old for that," said the prince, 49.) When a journalist asked if Harry was the family's best skier, as has sometimes been reported, William replied, "I'm not sure about that." In fact, his smile, dazzling and familiar, underscored what the previous days had made clear. "In William," says Peter Archer, "Diana's popular legacy lives on." -- KIM HUBBARD -- SIMON PERRY in Vancouver PEOPLE WEEKLY 4/13/98