Diana’s Tragic Final Phone Call To Will & Harry
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Princes William and Harry are haunted by their last phone call with their mother, Princess Diana — because they cut it short!
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Just hours before her death in Paris, she telephoned her sons at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where they were staying with their father, Prince Charles, her ex-husband. “Harry and I were running around, playing with our cousins, having a good time,” confessed William. “Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say ‘goodbye,’ ‘see you later,’‘can I go off?’” Diana and her boys hadn’t seen each other for almost a month. They were all looking forward to a reunion in London the day after the phone call. Instead, her sons awoke to the shattering news their mother was dead.
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The brothers say they’ll always regret spending just five minutes on the phone with her. “If I’d known that was the last time I’d speak to my mother, the things I would have said to her …” said Harry, who stifles tears at the memory. “I have to deal with that for the rest of my life.” In their most candid and emotional interview ever, the young royals reveal their devastating grief at being robbed of their mom. William was just 15. Harry was 12. “It’s like an earthquake had just run through the house,” William remembered. “You don’t quite know where you are, what you’re doing and what’s going on.”
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Now 32-year-old Harry, who admitted shutting down his emotions for years, says he’s only cried twice since she died. He says he grew up thinking “not having a mother was normal.” The boys spoke out for a documentary, "Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy," marking the 20th anniversary of her passing. “To myself and William, she was the best mother ever,” said Harry. “Even talking about it now I can feel the hugs she used to give us and I miss that.” Added William, “We felt incredibly loved. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of her.”
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The brothers also reveal the impact of “bouncing” between their warring parents after the marriage imploded. “We never saw our mother enough or we never saw our father enough,” said Harry. “We spent far too much time on the phone rather than speaking to each other.” Now, says 35-year-old William, he constantly talks to his children, 4-year-old Prince George and 2-year-old Princess Charlotte, about fun-loving “Granny Diana,” the grandmother they never met. “It’s important that they know who she was,” he said. “She’d love the children to bits.”
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Princes William and Harry are haunted by their last phone call with their mother, Princess Diana — because they cut it short!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Just hours before her death in Paris, she telephoned her sons at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where they were staying with their father, Prince Charles, her ex-husband. “Harry and I were running around, playing with our cousins, having a good time,” confessed William. “Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say ‘goodbye,’ ‘see you later,’‘can I go off?’” Diana and her boys hadn’t seen each other for almost a month. They were all looking forward to a reunion in London the day after the phone call. Instead, her sons awoke to the shattering news their mother was dead.
Photo credit: Getty Images
The brothers say they’ll always regret spending just five minutes on the phone with her. “If I’d known that was the last time I’d speak to my mother, the things I would have said to her …” said Harry, who stifles tears at the memory. “I have to deal with that for the rest of my life.” In their most candid and emotional interview ever, the young royals reveal their devastating grief at being robbed of their mom. William was just 15. Harry was 12. “It’s like an earthquake had just run through the house,” William remembered. “You don’t quite know where you are, what you’re doing and what’s going on.”
Now 32-year-old Harry, who admitted shutting down his emotions for years, says he’s only cried twice since she died. He says he grew up thinking “not having a mother was normal.” The boys spoke out for a documentary, "Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy," marking the 20th anniversary of her passing. “To myself and William, she was the best mother ever,” said Harry. “Even talking about it now I can feel the hugs she used to give us and I miss that.” Added William, “We felt incredibly loved. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of her.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
The brothers also reveal the impact of “bouncing” between their warring parents after the marriage imploded. “We never saw our mother enough or we never saw our father enough,” said Harry. “We spent far too much time on the phone rather than speaking to each other.” Now, says 35-year-old William, he constantly talks to his children, 4-year-old Prince George and 2-year-old Princess Charlotte, about fun-loving “Granny Diana,” the grandmother they never met. “It’s important that they know who she was,” he said. “She’d love the children to bits.”
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