Sunday People

PRINCES REVEAL HEARTACHE... We still feel guilty for cutting short last phone call to our mum

-

to share the happiness and warmth that we had with her and what she was like as a person.”

One of the documentar­y’s most moving scenes is when the princes relive their final conversati­on with their mum, who was in Paris while they were on the royal Scottish estate at Balmoral.

Prince William tells the camera: “At the time Harry and I were running about minding our own business, you know, playing with our cousins and having a... a very good time.

“I think Harry and I were just in a desperate rush to... to say goodbye.

“You know, ‘See you later’ and we’re going to go off. And, if I’d known now obviously what was going to happen I wouldn’t have been so blasé about it and everything else. But, erm, that phone calls sticks in my mind quite, quite heavily.”

After William’s five-minute chat with his mum it was Harry’s turn.

The prince, 32, says on-screen: “I can’t really remember what I said, but all I do remember is... is probably, you know, regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was.

Hard

“And if I’d known that was the last time I was going to speak to my mother the things that I would – the things I would have said to her.

“Looking back on it now it’s incredibly hard.

“I have... I have to sort of deal with that for the rest of my life.” Harry also tells how he tried to hide his grief. He says: “The first time I cried was, was, er, at the funeral on the island.

“And probably like – and only since then maybe, maybe once.

“So there’s... you know, there’s a lot – there’s a lot of grief still needs to be – erm, to be let out.

“The ten years that I was in the Army I just sort of dug my head in the sand and was just – it was just white noise.”

He says he remembers looking at the sea of floral tributes left by members of the public for Diana at Kensington Palace and thinking: “How is it that so many

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom