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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2020 19:17:56 GMT
The anniversary of the death of the Princess of Wales is on Monday, August 31. With this in mind, it is especially poignant to consider Diana’s own predictions for what the future would look like, given that she never got to see it. The princess tragically died in a car accident in Paris in 1997. Ingrid Seward, author and editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, recalled how Diana made a particular prediction about Harry’s future in remarks dubbed “prophetic”. The princess reportedly said: ”Harry’s full of energy, but he flips from one thing to another and then loses interest.” Ms Seward added in her comments to the Daily Mail last year: “Diana told me William was very sensitive, and Harry was the artistic and lively one who could come with anything. “William was more academic than Harry but he wasn’t finding Eton very easy at that time, although he had lovely friends there. “She said Harry would go to Eton, otherwise he’d be singled out as the one who wasn’t so bright and she worried about his lack of concentration.” Harry was just 12 when Diana died and she tragically never even saw him start at Eton College. However, she was probably correct in that William was the more academic, highlighted by the fact he went to university and Harry did not.
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Post by Admin on Sept 2, 2020 6:41:18 GMT
It's been 23 years since Prince William and Prince Harry lost their mother, Princess Diana. The royal died on August 31, 1997, following a car crash in a Paris tunnel. At the time, her beloved sons were staying at Balmoral Castle, the royal family's Scottish holiday home. William and Harry revealed in the 2017 ITV and HBO documentary "Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy," that they spoke to their mother over the phone hours before her death – and they both wish they’d appreciated the call more at the time. "I think Harry and I were just in a desperate rush to say goodbye … If I'd known now, obviously what was going to happen, I wouldn't have been so blasé about it,” William said in the film, while Harry said he’d regret “for the rest of [his] life how short the phone call was.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2020 0:35:45 GMT
The Crown's fourth season paints Princess Diana's wedding rehearsal not as an event filled with hopeful anticipation and nervous energy, but rather as the site of a breakdown. And while the pictures from the practice ceremony show Diana and Charles with smiles on their faces, the show's depiction is based in fact. As Andrew Morton's biography of the royal Diana: Her True Story—In Her Own Words, describes, "The full enormity of the charade hit her two days before the wedding when she attended a rehearsal at St. Paul's Cathedral. As soon as the camera lights were switched on, it triggered the churning emotions in her heart and she broke down and wept inconsolably." But those tears weren't caught on camera. Prince Edward arrived at St. Paul's Cathedral for the rehearsal, two days before his brother Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. Both Edward and Prince Andrew served as their oldest brother's supporters at the royal wedding, the British equivalent to a "best man." American First Lady Nancy Reagan was also in attendance at the pre-wedding event. "The thing I remember most was how young she was, young and happy," Reagan once said of meeting Diana ahead of her wedding. "I was sure it was going to be a wonderful marriage. We all thought it would be. It really did seem like the fairy tale that people still talk about." Prince Charles's godson, 8-year-old Edward Van Cutsem, served as a page boy at the royal wedding, and naturally was there for the rehearsal. In keeping with tradition, Van Cutsem’s three-year-old niece Grace served as a bridesmaid (and was iconically grumpy) on Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding day.
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Post by Admin on Nov 28, 2020 5:43:27 GMT
Prince Harry was criticized for not speaking up While William issued a statement, Harry did not. This resulted in newspapers criticizing Harry for not supporting his brother and therefore not supporting Diana’s legacy.
A source close to Harry spoke to Entertainment Tonight and assured the public that the Duke of Sussex is aware of the investigation.
“Harry is getting regular updates and is aware of everything that is happening,” the source told ET. “You do not need a public statement to imagine how he is feeling privately, people know how much his mother means to him. He has bravely spoken out in the past about loss and grief, and the immense impact it has had on him.”
The source added that the rumors seemed like an attempt to convince the public there were problems between William and Harry.
“Sadly, some people are not just seeing this as a drive for truth, but also trying to use this as an opportunity to try to drive a wedge between the brothers,” said the source.
Prince Harry on Princess Diana’s death Harry has long been open that his mother’s untimely death affected him. In a 2017 interview with Dave Henson on Forces TV, he shared that two tours in Afghanistan as an Apache pilot forced him to confront how he felt.
“If you lose your mum at the age of 12, you have got to deal with it,” Harry said in the interview. “The idea that 20 years later I still hadn’t really… that 15, 17 years later I still hadn’t dealt with it. Afghan was the moment where I was like, ‘Right, deal with it.'”
Harry also admitted that he experienced panic attacks when he attended public engagements.
“In my case, suit and tie, every single time I was in any room with loads of people, which is quite often, I was just pouring with sweat, like heart beating – boom, boom, boom, boom – and literally just like a washing machine,” he said in the interview.
After encouragement from William, Harry sought out support for his mental health and began counseling.
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Post by Admin on Dec 2, 2020 3:42:51 GMT
Harry revealed how he found "escapism and space" in Africa in the months after Princess Diana died when he was just 12. The Duke of Sussex said he will be "eternally grateful" for the trip with father Prince Charles and brother Prince William as he came to terms with the loss of his mother. http://instagram.com/p/CIQKgc6gMwA His words came as he launched WaterBear Network today, a Netflix-style, digital channel for climate documentaries. Harry said: "I travel all over the world and anyone that's visited Africa says the same thing. "I don't know what it is but there's something in the air or that ends up running in your blood and, no matter what experience you have, it just pulls you back. "You want to be back there again. I first traveled there when I was 12, 13 years old, straight after I lost my mum. "And the sense of escapism and space that this continent of Africa afforded me is something that I will be eternally grateful for." He added: "The smiles and the enjoyment and the energy and life that these communities have, it's so different from the way that everybody over here lives. I just think it's really powerful."
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