William, Harry and Kate at the Sugar Hut, Fulham, Easter 2005

Fulham, London · March 2005

Taken 23:37:03 (camera clock), Monday 28 March 2005, Sugar Hut, Fulham, London

I am Charles Pycraft, a London photographer.

In a GQ interview published this week, Prince Harry said of his family, "I want it to work out" (ABC News). So here is a lighter moment from my archive: the brothers out together in London, 21 years ago.

The Sugar Hut, Easter Monday 2005

My camera has them at the Sugar Hut in Fulham on the evening of Easter Monday, 28 March 2005. The Evening Standard reported at the time that the princes were out with a group of friends, and that Kate Middleton, who was studying with William at St Andrews, left about ten minutes after them (Evening Standard).

Harry, then 20, comes out in a grey jumper and khaki trousers with something white in his hand. William, 22, wears a maroon, white and pale blue striped rugby shirt, with a jacket slung over his arm. Kate, 23, steps through the big wooden door in a pink top and flared jeans. It looks like a very ordinary Bank Holiday night out, which is rather the charm of it.

That week

London had a new favourite Saturday night show. Two days earlier, on 26 March, Doctor Who returned to BBC One after 16 years, with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose, and around 10 million people tuned in (BBC). The number 1 single that week was the Comic Relief release of (Is This the Way to) Amarillo by Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay, which stayed at the top for seven weeks (Official Charts).

Where they are now

William and Kate married in 2011 and are now the Prince and Princess of Wales. Harry moved back to the UK with his family in August, and this week's interview has a hopeful note to it.

My photography years ran from 1999 to 2014, and that archive is now licensed through Backgrid UK.

The pictures

Five frames from a body of work I made in London between 1999 and 2014, all from the same evening at the Sugar Hut. Where people who are not public figures appear in the background, they have been blurred.

Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID. Licensing: Backgrid UK Sales, backgrid_uksales@shutterstock.com

Prince William in a maroon, white and pale blue striped rugby shirt and jeans, a beige jacket over his arm, with Prince Harry — SUGAR HUT, FULHAM, MARCH 2005. Prince William, now the Prince of Wales, leaves the Sugar Hut in Fulham, London, on the evening of Easter Monday, 28 March 2005, with his brother Prince Harry just behind him. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.

Prince Harry with short ginger hair in a grey jumper and khaki trousers, walking along a dark street at night holding a small — Prince Harry, then 20, in a grey jumper and khaki trousers, with something white in his hand. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.

Kate Middleton with long dark hair in a pale pink top and flared blue jeans, stepping out of a large dark wooden doorway with — Kate Middleton, now the Princess of Wales, steps out of the Sugar Hut's wooden door in a pink top and jeans. She and Prince William married in 2011. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.

Prince William in a striped rugby shirt with a jacket over his arm, coming down from a doorway at night, with a man in a blue — Prince William in the doorway as the group heads out. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.

The stone front of the Sugar Hut bar and restaurant at night, lit by orange wall lamps, with potted shrubs by the arched door — The Sugar Hut in Fulham, Easter Monday 2005. Credit: Charlie Pycraft / BACKGRID.