‘There’s a special photo here of the two of you... I thought it was quite sweet’
SITTING in the sunshine, wrapped in his mother’s embrace, Prince Harry beams with blissful delight in one of the last images of mother and son together.
The photograph – above – was taken on holiday and, remarkably, Harry saw it for the first time only recently.
As he explains in tomorrow’s ITV film, it was from Princess Diana’s personal photo collection, which he had been reluctant to go through. ‘Part of me never really wanted to look at them and part of me was waiting to find the right time where we could sit down and look at them together,’ he tells his brother.
William and Harry are filmed poring over the images and the exchanges they provoke – some playful, some touching – demonstrate their close bond.
Opening one of the albums, William highlights the holiday picture of his brother and mother saying to Harry: ‘This photo here I thought you’d like to see. It’s quite a special picture of the two of you, which I thought was quite sweet.’
Harry asks: ‘Where was this, do you remember?’ William replies: ‘This was out on holiday’
Harry adds: ‘I just remember having the skinniest legs and still do. Skinniest of legs. Chicken legs.’ Laughing, William interjects: ‘You’ve got some good bushy blond eyebrows going on there as well. And your freckled nose. Your freckles have gone quite a lot now. You used to have such freckles.’
Harry says: ‘No, they come back every now and then,’ before musing: ‘Happy memories, good smiley faces… She smothered us with love that’s for sure.’
Then William notes that ‘it’s really nice looking back at it and reminding yourself... it brought back so many memories’.
Many of the pictures they look at in the film, including the holiday snap, have been publicly released to make the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death. One of the most striking is of Diana, in a pink jumper, holding William, while pregnant with Harry, below, which she had captioned ‘W and Harry’. ‘Believe it or not, you and I are both in this photograph,’ says William. ‘You’re in the tummy.’ Harry replies: ‘Oh, nice... You look excited that you’ve got a brother or sister coming.’ William: ‘I think I was looking forward to beating you up, maybe you’re right! I thought that was quite a funny photograph, it was quite sweet.’ Harry: ‘She seems happy there as well.’ Talking about a picture of the pair dressed in policemen’s helmets, Harry says: ‘We were dressing up – thinking we were looking really cool.’ William replies: ‘Yeah, that’s brilliant. We used to have great fun mucking around, didn’t we?’