The princes have opened up about their relationship with their mother for a new documentary due to air on ITV, Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy.

 

Prince Harry said the documentary was the first time the two of them had spoken about Diana, who died aged 36, as a mother. Princes William and Harry had not seen their mother for almost a month before her death, they have revealed. Her divorce from Prince Charles meant the boys were ‘bounced’ between their parents, losing out on time with both of them, Harry said. She died the day before they were due to be reunited.

Prince William opened up about the last conversation that they had with the Princess of Wales before her death in Paris on 31 August, 1997. He said they had been playing with their cousins in Balmoral and were desperate to get off the phone to continue playing. William said: “Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say ‘goodbye, see you later, can I go off?’, If I’d known what was going to happen I wouldn’t have been quite so blasé about it.”

Prince Harry also expressed regret about the rushed phone call with his mum. “Looking back at it now – it’s incredibly hard. I have to deal with that for the rest of my life: not knowing that it was the last time I’d speak to my mum, how differently that conversation would have panned out if I’d had even the slightest inkling that her life was going to be taken that night,” he said.