Princes speak of their regret

– Britain’s Prince William and Prince Harry have revealed they talked to their mother Princess Diana on the day she died and that the short conversation now weighs heavily on their mind.

“It was her speaking from Paris, I can’t really necessarily remember what I said but all I do remember is probably regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was,” Prince Harry told ITV for a documentary to commemorate their mother.

Prince William was just 15 and his brother Harry 12 when their mother and her boyfriend Dodi alFayed were killed in August 1997 after the car they were in crashed in a tunnel in central Paris as it was being pursued at high speed by press photographers.

Their French chauffeur Henri Paul, who was later found to be over the legal blood alcohol limit, also died.

The two princes were in Balmoral, the queen’s residence in Scotland, and William had earlier told Diana of the “very good time” they were having.

“Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say goodbye, you know ‘see you later’ ... if I’d known now obviously what was going to happen I wouldn’t have been so blase about it and everything else,” William told ITV.

The documentary, entitled Diana, Our Mother: Her Life And Legacy is to be aired in the UK today. – AFP

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