WILLIAM HAUNTED BY DIANA

PRINCE William has revealed the “life-changing” experience of having children brought back the emotions he felt following the death of his mother, Princess Diana. Speaking in a new BBC documentary, William said if you live through a “traumatic” event, like losing a parent at a young age, those feelings can resurface during the amazing but scary period of parenthood. William who has three children – George, Charlotte and Louis – admitted he had found things “overwhelming” at times but he and wife Kate supported each other as they went through those “moments” together.

William’s comments will feature in a documentary that examines men’s mental health through the prism of football, during a discussion with former professional footballer Marvin Sordel who struggled with depression when he became a father for the first time a few years ago.

The former Bolton player asked William, with fathers under so much “pressure”, who he went to when he was “struggling”, and William replied: “Having children is the biggest lifechanging moment, it really is, (and) there’s no one there to help you, and I definitely found it very overwhelming.”