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Unhappy Re: The ROYALs Thread: Princes William/Harry's Regret of Last Call with Princess Dian

'Anyone Else Want to Reach into the TV and Give Them a Hug?': Viewers' Emotion as Harry and William Reveal How They Struggled to Cope After the Death of Their Mother

  • William and Harry spoke about losing their mother and coping after she died
  • Their candid interviews gave way to an outpouring of emotion from viewers
  • Celebrities pay tribute to the princess ahead of 20th anniversary of her death
  • Programme achieved 6.8 million average with a peak of 7.4 million
Daily Mail UK, 25 July 2017


William and Harry's candid confessions about struggling to cope after the death of their mother led to an outpouring of emotion from viewers last night.

Millions tuned in to ITV to watch the brothers discuss the gap left in their lives as they came to terms with growing up without a mother.

The moving documentary struck a chord with viewers as the pair relived their grief and spoke to friends of Princess Diana, including Elton John, and shared memories ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death.






Millions tuned in to ITV to watch the brothers discuss the gap left in their lives as they came to terms with growing up without a mother.


In the ITV documentary Diana, Our Mother the princes spoke honestly about their relationship with Diana and their 'still raw' grief at her death.

And viewers were left emotional as the royals revealed never seen before pictures of the princess as she attempted to give them a 'normal' childhood.

Celebrities led the way as they praised the pair. Presenter Fearne Cotton tweeted she was an 'emotional wreck' watching the show.

The programme was watched by 7.4m UK viewers at its peak, and 6.8 million on average.

Meanwhile actress and writer Sarah Solemani said she was feeling 'unapologetically emosh'.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell - whom Diana invited to Kensington Palace as a surprise for a 12-year-old William - tweeted: 'Thinking of Prince William and Prince Harry. A beautiful mother in and out.'

And Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan tweeted: 'Never met a more beguiling, mischievous, passionate & complex woman. Loved her.'

The ITV documentary was the first and last time William and Harry will speak candidly about their mother.





The Duke of Cambridge admitted speaking openly about his mother for the documentary about her life was 'daunting' at first but the process has been a 'healing' one





The ITV documentary was the first and last time William, and Prince Harry, will speak candidly about their mother.






Singer Elton John appeared in the ITV documentary to talk about Diana - his longtime friend - and her support for those with HIV and AIDs.


William and Harry said they wanted to speak publicly to pay tribute to their mother, ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death in August 1997, and to protect her memory.

The 20th anniversary of her death will be marked with a statue of Diana erected in a place she knew well, the public gardens of her former home Kensington Palace.

Prince William said he wanted people to see 'the warmth, the humour and what she was like as a mother', and of the brothers' desire to see her legacy 'live on in our work'.

The film opened with a love letter from two little boys to the adored mother they lost so suddenly.

Many viewers said they wanted to give the princes 'a hug' while others praised their bravery adding the pair were 'Diana's greatest legacy'.


NEW DOCUMENTARY:

In their most extensive and honest television interview to date, the Duke and Prince speak fondly of their childhood with one of the world’s most-photographed women, in the hopes of introducing the real her to a new generation.

The Duke, who now has two children of his own, discloses how he is keeping his mother’s memory alive by having many photos of her around his home and telling them stories about Princess Diana, and he also shares the weird and wonderful pranks the “naughty” princess loved to play on her sons.



Speaking in an interview, the Duke described his last conversation with her, while she was in Paris and he was at Balmoral with his father, the Prince of Wales, and the wider Royal family.


Quote:

"All I do remember is probably, you know, regretting for the rest of my life how short the last phone call with her was"

“At the time Harry and I were running around minding our own business, you know, playing with our cousins and having a very good time,” he said.

Prince Harry continued:

“As a kid I never enjoyed speaking to my parents on the phone.
We spent far too much time speaking on the phone rather than speaking to each other, because of just the way the situation [the divorce] was."

“And the phone rang and off he [William] went to go and speak to her sort of for five minutes.” The Duke said: “And I think Harry and I were just in a desperate rush to say goodbye, you know, see you later and we’re going to go off."


“If I’d known now obviously what was going to happen I wouldn’t have been so blasé about it and everything else. “But that phone call sticks in my mind quite, quite heavily.”



Prince William, Prince Harry's Regrets about Final Phone Call with Diana;






Now aged 35 and 32, the brothers said they wanted to make the documentary to celebrate her life, remind people who she was and introduce her, in their own way, to a new generation.


They admit that talking so openly about their mother, the divorce and her death, had been “cathartic” but insist that they “won’t speak as openly or publicly about her again.”

The boys both express regrets about the last conversation they had with her on the phone in August 1997, cutting it short to they could go and play.

The Duke of Cambridge compared the news of her death to “an earthquake” while Prince Harry revealed he had only cried twice since she died, admitting that “there's a lot of grief that still needs to be let out."

The brothers are understood to have personally called many of their mother’s closest friends and aides to ask them to take part in the documentary, that comes almost 20 years after her death.

As a result, the film also features the Princess's brother, Earl Spencer, Sir Elton John, William Van Straubenzee, Lady Carolyn Warren and Anne Beckwith-Smith, her lady-in-waiting.



Quote:

'Our Mother had a great sense of humour and sometimes could be a naughty Mummy'



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NEW PHOTOs Found Recently by the Two Princes
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The intimate family snaps, found in a personal photograph album belonging to the princess, had been packed away and was only discovered by the princes earlier this year.





While Harry poses confidently, hands on hips, his brother squints at the photographer, thought to be their mother.


The brothers laugh about the princess’s penchant for dressing them up in “bizarre” costumes, which they admit leaves them bemused to this day.








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“We won’t speak as openly and publicly about her again, because we feel that hopefully this film will provide the other side: from her closest family and friends, that you might not have heard before, from those who knew her best, and those who want to protect her memory and want to remind people of the person she was.

"The warmth, the humour, and what she was like as a mother.




The princes were just children when their mother, Princess Diana, died in a car crash. Getty Images



"Harry and I feel very strongly that we want to celebrate her life, and this is a tribute from her sons to her.” Sitting down with Prince Harry to look at photographs and talk about memories, he added, had been “cathartic”, he said:
“It's been at first quite daunting opening up so much to camera, but going through this process has been quite healing as well.”

As well as her sons, the film also features Diana’s brother Earl Spencer, who speaks frankly about how the bitter divorce of their parents affected her, Sir Elton John, who campaigned with her and sang at her funeral, and a host of friends including William Van Straubenzee, Lady Carolyn Warren and Anne Beckwith-Smith.

The Duke and Prince have also taken part in a BBC documentary, due out later this year and focusing specifically on the week following the Parisian car crash.

They last month marked Diana's birthday by rededicating her grave at Althorp, the Spencer family home, and will commemorate the anniversary of her death in August.

"We want her legacy to live on in our work, and we feel this is an appropriate way of doing that,” said the Duke.

"To remind not only the people who knew her, but also you have to remember this is 20 years ago now that she died and there are people who don't even know about her.

"We want to share the happiness and the warmth of her and what she was like as a person with a wider audience, and so came the documentary. "I hope you enjoy it."


The Family Album





Princes William and Harry taking part in the documentary Credit: ITV



The documentary opens with the Duke and Prince leafing though Diana's photograph album, only recently rediscovered at home and full of picture of them as children.

Prince Harry, who stars in many of them, told William:

"Part of me never really wanted to look at them and part of me was waiting to find the right time where we could sit down and look at them together. One shows him on his first day of school, while another captures a beach holiday, where he is hugged tightly by Diana.

She would just engulf you and squeeze you as tight as possible," he recalled, speaking to camera.
"And being as short as I was then, there was no escape, you were there and you were there for as long as she wanted to hold you.



"Even talking about it now I can feel the hugs that she used to give us and I miss that. I miss that feeling, I miss that part of a family, I miss having that mother to be able to give you those hugs and give you that compassion that I think everybody needs."


The Queen’s Worries

The Queen, the documentary reveals, was so concerned about Diana in her low points that she took a friend aside quietly at Balmoral to check on her welfare.
Harry Herbert, whose father was the 7th Earl of Carnarvon and racing manager to the Queen, said:

“I had a talk to the Queen about it at Balmoral.
“The Queen wanted to talk to me about it because she was so worried about Diana.

“After a lunch at Balmoral and going [on a walk] up high and looking down onto this beautiful setting of heather and Castle, and an incredibly important chat. A very personal chat.

“And the Queen wanted to know how was Diana feeling, and was it as bad as it was?
“It was a sad discussion, a sad moment really because that was everything at its worst.”

But he said, he had visited Diana at home in Kensington Palace when she was struggling, and even then her face would “light up” when her sons came “thundering” into her room.


Divorce

Before the trauma of Diana’s death, Prince William and Prince Harry endured the fall-out from her divorce from the Prince of Wales, finalised in 1996 after a long and very public battle between their parents.

“There was the point of where our parents split and the two of us were bouncing between the two of them and we probably didn’t...we never saw our mother enough or we never saw our father enough,” Prince Harry said.

“You know there was a lot there was a lot of travelling and a lot of fights on the back seat with my brother, of which I would win.

“So there was all of that to contend with. And I don’t pretend that we’re the only people to have to deal with that. But it was, it was an interesting way of growing up.”


Diana’s Legacy

Exploring Diana’s main causes, from HIV awareness to homelessness, the film also reveals her final, incomplete, challenge: landmines.

Prince Harry tells how he found a “whole series” of letters, around a month ago; dated August 31 and waiting for her to sign them.

“She knew exactly what needed to be done,” he youngest son said.
“She was writing letters to certain people to say right,, this is what needs to happen in order for this whole sort of tidal wave to change.

“And it’s only recently over the years that I’ve actually really understood the effect that she was having in those areas and on an international scale as well.”

In the film, he speaks with two young victims of landmines in Bosnia, telling them they had seen his mother more recently than he had.
She had spent time with them after learning they had been injured by mines, going on holiday to Paris just a few weeks later while Prince Harry was at Balmoral.


Their Childhood Outfits

In a light-hearted moment, Prince Harry speaks with mock-fury about the outfits he was compelled to wear as a child, saying he would love to ask his mother why she chose them.

The two young boys were regularly photographed in an array of elaborate and old-fashioned clothes, often matching.

“I genuinely think that she got satisfaction out of dressing myself and William up in the most bizarre outfits,” he said.
“Normally matching. It was weird shorts and, like, little sort of shiny shoes with the old clip on. Looking back at the photos it just makes me laugh. “I just think ‘how could you do that to us’.”

One by one, he said, the Princes began to rebel, with William first refusing to match his brother and then Harry taking a stand.

“So I like to think that she had great fun in dressing us up,” he said. “I’m sure that wasn’t it, but I sure as hell am going to dress my kids up the same way.”


A Normal Life

Diana, her sons said, tried valiantly to teach them about a normal life, despite the privileges of their upbringing.


“She made the decision that no matter what, despite all the difficulties of growing up in that limelight and on that stage, she was going to ensure that both of us had as normal life as possible,” said Prince Harry.
“And if that means taking us for a burger every now and then, or sneaking us into the cinema, or driving through the country lanes with the roof down of her old-school BMW listening to Enya I think it was...All of that was part of her being a mum”.


Diana, the Prankster

If she strove for a normal life, Diana’s love of pranks was anything but ordinary.
Described as a “total kid through and through” by Prince Harry, the late princess’, she attempted to embarrass her sons at every opportunity, from sending rude cards to them at school to roping in supermodels to help her.

Prince William told how he once returned home, aged 12 or 13, to find pin-ups Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell waiting for him at the top of the stairs.

“I went bright red and didn’t quite know what to say and sort of fumbled, and I think I pretty much fell down the stairs on the way up,” he said

“I was completely and utterly sort of awestruck. But that was a very funny memory. That’s lived with me forever.”

At other time, he said, she would post him “the rudest cards you can imagine” to boarding school, leaving him in fear of being spotted by a teacher.


Prince Harry recalled how she would smuggle sweets into their socks when she came to watch them playing football, saying they would walk back to their tuck box with their clothes “bulging” with treats.


If she worried about her sons following in her footsteps, it appears she did not show it.

Prince Harry said:

“One of her mottos to me was: ‘you can be as naughty as you want, just don’t get caught’.


Granny Diana

If she excelled as a mother, Diana would have been an “absolute nightmare” as a grandmother, Prince William joked, as he discloses how he tries to keep her memory alive.

Saying he is “constantly” mentioning “Granny Diana” at home, he has also mounted more photographs so that Prince George and Princess Charlotte learn about her.

“It’s hard because obviously Catherine didn’t know her, so she cannot really provide that level of detail,” he said.

“So I do regularly put George or Charlotte to bed, talk about her and just try and remind them that there are two grandmothers - there were two grandmothers - in their lives.”

Asked how she would be like had she lived to enjoy the next stage of her family life, he added:
“She’d be a nightmare grandmother, absolute nightmare. She’d love the children to bits, but she’d be an absolute nightmare.

“She’d come and go and she’d come in probably at bath time, cause an amazing amount of scene, bubbles everywhere, bathwater all over the place and then leave.

“I want to make as much time and effort with Charlotte and George as I can because I realise that these early years particularly are crucial for children, and having seen, you know, what she did for us.”


An Earthquake

Diana’s death, Prince William said, was like an “earthquake”, running through their lives with such shockwaves that it took a while to sink in.

“There’s not many days that go by that I don’t think of her, you know - sometimes sad, sometimes very positively,” he said.

“You know, I have a smile every now and again when someone says something and I think that’s exactly what she would have said, or she would have enjoyed that comment.
“So they always live with you people you lose like that. And my mother lives with me every day.”

Prince Harry acknowledge it “has been hard and it will continue to be hard”, added:

“There’s not a day that William and I don’t wish that she was still around, and we wonder what kind of a mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have, and what a difference she would be making. “You know, and of course as a son I would say this, she was the best mum in the world.”


The programme, 'Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, was broadcast on ITV.


Producers approached Kensington Palace more than a year ago, seeking permission for a programme to mark the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death. They were invited to meet the princes and discussed Diana’s legacy, but also their personal memories.

And Prince Harry himself was almost reduced to tears by the new film about his mother.

He called producers after seeing it and said:

‘I nearly cried several times watching it back.’

The prince admitted his grief was ‘still raw’, but praised the film as ‘brilliant’.



Prince William and Prince Harry Recall ‘Diana, Our Mother’ In New Documentary





The Unseen Diana




My Mother Diana (Royal Family FULL Documentary)






HISTORY

Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances 1961 –1997), was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II.

Diana was born into a family of British nobility with royal ancestry and was the fourth child and third daughter of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, and the Honourable Frances Roche.

She grew up in Park House, situated on the Sandringham estate, and was educated in England and Switzerland. In 1975—after her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer—she became known as Lady Diana Spencer. She came to prominence in February 1981 when her engagement to Prince Charles was announced.

Her wedding to the Prince of Wales was held at St Paul's Cathedral on 29 July 1981 and reached a global television audience of over 750 million people. During her marriage, Diana was Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, and Countess of Chester.
The marriage produced two sons, the princes William and Harry, who were then respectively second and third in the line of succession to the British throne. As Princess of Wales, Diana undertook royal duties on behalf of the Queen and represented her at functions overseas.

She was celebrated for her charity work and for her support of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. She was involved with dozens of charities including London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, of which she was president from 1989.

Diana remained the object of worldwide media scrutiny during and after her marriage, which ended in divorce on 28 August 1996. Media attention and public mourning were extensive after her death in a car crash in a Paris tunnel on 31 August 1997 and subsequent televised funeral.


After her death the Royal family removed her official titles of HER ROYAL HIGHNESS and
Princess of Wales. They should NOT have been removed as she was the mother of a future KING.
END



Lady Diana, Princess of Wales




Fresh-faced: Diana flashes a smile for the camera in one of the never-before-seen images, taken in the early 1980s.


(Diana secretly recorded hours of tapes pouring out her despair over her imploding marriage to Charles:
Soul-baring audio in the tapes reveals her bulimia began when Prince
Charles told her she was 'a bit chubby')


The tapes reveal Diana had written a letter to her brother. saying she had knowledge that Prince Charles and the establishment wanted to 'SILENCE HER' and that she was going to be killed in a car accident, which may have the brakes tampered with.

The tapes also reveal many other things and how the inquest into
her death was 'fixed' and why parts of her body were removed before it was embalmed, to hide her pregnancy with Dodi, who was a Muslim.

> Channel 4 from the UK will show a documentary airing the tapes, around the end of August 2017.






Country pursuits: Princess Diana, left, and Prince Charles, centre, look out across the field.






Diana once said:

'I was constantly polite, constantly civil. I was never rude. I never shouted. But I cried like a baby to the four walls. I just couldn’t cope with it. I cried because I got no support from Charles'.



RIP Diana, Queen of Hearts;




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