Di doco a ratings winner
A STIRRING documentary about Princess Diana’s life has pulled a huge audience for Seven.
Diana, Our Mother, her Life and Legacy, which featured emotionally-charged interviews with her sons Prince William and Prince Harry, averaged 1.334 million viewers across the five capital cities for Seven’s Sunday Night.
It beat the launches of The Block and Australian Survivor, with The Block averaging 1.117 million viewers.
In an emotional admission, the two Princes revealed their biggest regret was their final phone conversation with their mother the day before her death, when they were holidaying at Balmoral while she was in Paris. They hadn’t seen her in a month.
“Harry and I were just in a desperate rush to say goodbye,” Prince William said.
“If I’d known now obviously what was going to happen I wouldn’t have been so blasé about it and everything else.
“That phone call sticks my mind quite heavily.”
Harry said the fleeting phone call was the biggest regret of his life.
“All I do remember is probably, you know, regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was,” he said.
“I have to sort of deal with that for the rest of my life.”
What followed Diana’s death in August 1997 was global devastation as the world mourned the loss of the ‘people’s Princess.’
Harry said he coped by “putting his head in the sand” and “locking it out”.
“I grew up thinking that not in having a mum was normal,” he said.
“I think it was a classic case of don’t let yourself think about your mum and the grief and the hurt that comes with it.
“It’s never going to bring her back and it’s only going to make you more sad.
“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.”
Seven has another Diana special – Diana’s Death: The Search for the Truth – set to screen at 8.30pm tonight.
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