"Part of the reason why Harry and I want to do this is because we feel we owe it to her. Speaking in a BBC documentary marking the 20th anniversary of Diana's death William said: Though many of the memories shared of Diana are happy ones, William has spoken about a feeling of failure on his part to protect his mother from the paparazzi and negative media attention, something he has tried to ensure is not repeated with his own wife or family. Since his marriage William has increasingly opened up about his mother, her advice and the grief he still experiences at her loss. The young couple dated for nearly a decade before marrying in 2011. There is little doubt that his parents' turbulent marriage during the 1990s and what the press dubbed the "war of the Waleses" had a profound impact on the young William as he grew up.įollowing his mother's death just three years on from their frank conversation after Charles' interview, William began to form his own relationships which culminated in meeting Kate Middleton while studying at St. Pool Photograph/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Impact on William But I put it in gently, without resentment or any anger."ĭuring her interview with BBC's Panorama, Diana told Martin Bashir that she had spoken to Prince William after Prince Charles admitted he had been unfaithful during their marriage. "Well, he's a child that's a deep thinker, and we don't know for a few years how it's gone in. When then asked how the adolescent William had reacted to this quite frank conversation, the princess said: "But although I still loved Papa I couldn't live under the same roof as him, and likewise with him," she added. "He said, was that the reason why our marriage had broken up? And I said, well, there were three of us in this marriage, and the pressure of the media was another factor, so the two together were very difficult. "William asked me what had been going on, and could I answer his questions, which I did." "I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life you must hang on to it and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you then one must protect it. Recounting the advice she gave her then 12-year-old son in her own television interview in 1995 to BBC's Panorama, Diana said: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images/Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images "Protect" The Ones You LoveĪfter the broadcast of a 1994 interview between Prince Charles and Jonathan Dimbleby in which the prince admitted to being unfaithful to Diana after their marriage had "irretrievably broken down," the princess traveled to see William at school to speak to him about it. "Diana proudly told friends that William was her 'soulmate, & closest confidant'," he wrote.ĭespite Diana herself saying how "forthright" and "deep" William was, 25 years after her tragic death in a high-speed Paris car crash, and as her son marks his 40th birthday, it is a piece of advice that Diana gave William which resonates today.ĭiana's advice to William that "if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you then one must protect it" is evident in the way he protects his family. Royal author Robert Jobson also highlighted how close mother and son were in his 2006 book William's Princess. In her latest book The Palace Papers, author and former editor of Vanity Fair, Tina Brown, wrote that Diana called William her "little wise old man" as he increasingly gave her mature advice. Throughout her life, Diana interacted closely with both her sons, William and Harry, but as William was two years Harry's senior, she came to rely on her eldest son through some of the hardest periods of her marriage. Prince William celebrates his milestone 40th birthday on Tuesday in the same year which marks the poignant 25th anniversary of the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
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