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Post by Admin on Dec 26, 2020 4:13:12 GMT
It's usually kids who have a hard time waiting until Christmas morning to open their presents, but Princess Diana admitted she struggled with waiting to tear into her gifts even as an adult! And her oldest son Prince William apparently shares this trait. “A parcel of any shape or form has never been safe with me,” Diana wrote in a 1985 letter to a friend. “And I fear that William has also picked up this dreadful habit from his mother, as I find wrapping paper undone in the most extraordinary places.” Christmas has always been a special time for the royal family. When Prince William and Prince Harry were small, Diana and Prince Charles included plenty of fun along with royal duties such as walking to church while greeting the public, which the boys began to do at ages 6 and 4, respectively. In a 1990 letter, Princess Diana shared how much her sons adored the holiday. “The boys are thrilled at the prospect of Christmas on the horizon and have searched high and low for any parcels that might be coming their way!” she wrote. It's usually kids who have a hard time waiting until Christmas morning to open their presents, but Princess Diana admitted she struggled with waiting to tear into her gifts even as an adult! And her oldest son Prince William apparently shares this trait. “A parcel of any shape or form has never been safe with me,” Diana wrote in a 1985 letter to a friend. “And I fear that William has also picked up this dreadful habit from his mother, as I find wrapping paper undone in the most extraordinary places.”
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Post by Admin on Jan 30, 2021 5:04:53 GMT
A statue is being installed of the late Princess of Wales in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace and is due to be unveiled on July 1, what would have been Diana’s 60th birthday. The statue, the installation of which has already been delayed due to coronavirus, aims to help those who visit the Palace to “reflect on [Diana’s] life and her legacy”. The unveiling is set to be a beautiful moment of unity for the brothers, especially after all the claims of a feud and the conflict over Prince Harry’s decision to leave his royal duties behind. Harry has been living in the US with his wife Meghan Markle after the couple stepped down as senior royals last year. At the time of stepping down, they said they wanted to split their time between the UK and US and therefore kept Frogmore Cottage as their British residence. However, the coronavirus pandemic and the resultant travel restrictions in both the US and UK have prevented the Sussexes from making it back to the UK at all since settling in California. With the crisis far from over amid worrying numbers of new cases in deaths on both sides of the Atlantic, it looks like 2021 will also have to be full of compromises. This summer, several big events are supposed to be coming up for Harry including the Invictus Games in The Hague in May, which is looking increasingly likely to be cancelled.
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2021 6:16:13 GMT
It's been almost 20 years since Princess Diana died tragically in a car accident and this year we've seen several documentaries celebrating her. The latest, called Diana Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, which airs on ITV and HBO on Monday, features personal interviews with her son, Prince William. In the documentary, William opens up about how he's kept his mother's memory alive with his own children, George, 4, and Charlotte, 2. In addition to decorating his and Kate Middleton's home with pictures of his late mother, William says he talks about her "constantly" with his kids, according to People. “It’s hard because obviously Catherine didn’t know her, so she cannot really provide that—that level of detail,” he says. “So, I do [when] regularly putting George or Charlotte to bed, talk about her and just try and remind them that there are two grandmothers, there were two grandmothers in their lives, and so it’s important that they know who she was and that she existed.” So what kind of grandma would Diana be if she were still around today? A "nightmare" according to William. “She’d be a nightmare grandmother, absolute nightmare,” he joked. “She’d love the children to bits, but she’d be an absolute nightmare. She’d come and go and she’d come in probably at bath time, cause an amazing amount of scene, bubbles everywhere, bathwater all over the place and—and then leave.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2021 6:52:26 GMT
The royal brothers were once very close but in recent years have fallen out. The Duke of Sussex first publicly hinted that he and his brother were no longer on friendly terms in an interview with Tom Bradby during a tour to South Africa in 2019. Harry told the ITV presenter that he and his older brother were on "different paths". The rift has since shown no sign of healing, as Harry confided to Oprah Winfrey during his infamous interview on March 8. Harry told the media mogul that their relationship was still one of "space at the moment." However, royal author Anna Pasternak believes that William and Harry will try and bury the hatchet in memory of their deceased mother. She told Fox News: "The greatest hope of reconciliation lies in the memory of their mother. "That is what will unite them still today. "I believe they will put their differences aside for her. "And I believe there is a possibility of us witnessing that at the unveiling."
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2021 20:12:38 GMT
One of Princess Diana's close confidants is revisiting their final phone call on the night of her shocking 1997 death in Paris. Richard Kay, a longtime royal reporter and friend of the princess, looks back on the telephone conversation that would turn out to be the Princess of Wales' last for the upcoming Diana documentary, airing Thursday night in the U.K. "I spoke to her that night," he recalls - though only later, once the 36-year-old had died in a car crash resulting from a high-speed paparazzi chase, would Kay realize how significant that call was. "[The] police said that the last call she made was to me." The mother of Prince William and Prince Harry, then 15 and 12, was "in quite a good place," shares Kay, according to The Mirror. But above all, "she wanted to come back and see her boys." Diana was also eager to turn a new page in her life. "She was desperate to try and make a fresh start and do something different," says Kay, "to explore a different kind of royalty." What Diana would tragically never come to realize, in fact, was that even in death she would reshape the monarchy, setting off ripples through her legacy, her love for her children and her compassion. Kay is just one the of many friends and family members who are coming forward to remember "The People's Princess" in the weeks ahead of July 1, which would have been her 60th birthday. Her sons will also be coming together - reuniting for the first time since the funeral of their grandfather Prince Philip in May - to commemorate their mother on her birthday by unveiling a statue dedicated to her on the grounds of Kensington Palace.
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