Look to the future, Harry

MY SeRVICeMAN husband left on a fine Monday morning with kisses and his usual farewell: ‘ See you at tea-time.’ He never did.

Like Prince William and Harry, who lost their mother Princess Diana when they were boys, my children, aged nearly ten and seven at the time, had to face the future without their father. We agreed that the best

way to remember Daddy was to get on with our lives as though he was with us. When kind people asked to help us, we would smile and thank them, so they wouldn’t feel sad or embarrassed at talking about him. It wasn’t easy.

My husband had just built a dinghy and the thought of not using the beautiful boat was too sad to entertain.

We all learned to sail it and the children later took part in Tall Ships races. Their father would have burst with pride!

After the death of a parent, families try hard to preserve memories, despite financial and other setbacks.

It is an unattractive trait for Princes William and Harry to continue wallowing publicly in self-pity and using their mother’s death as a crutch.

I would like to tell them: thank God you had such a lovely parent, put the sorrow behind you and get on with your life.

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IN ALL the melee that has surrounded the abdication from his royal role by Prince Harry, has anyone spared a thought for his brother?

Prince William must feel bereft at the loss of the one person who had to share the loss of their beloved mother.

The two brothers once seemed united and unbreakable in their sense of duty to the Queen and their country and in honouring Princess Diana’s memory.

Harry has left his brother to run with their mother’s baton, carrying out duties he is destined to execute to the end of his days.

William can’t bail out of his royal heritage as Harry has done, but he must feel lonely without his brother and ally by his side.

LeSLeY MOULD, east Garston, Berks.