Princess Diana, Prince Harry and Prince William.Photo: Antony Jones/Julian Parker/UK Press via Getty Images
The CrownportraysPrincess Dianahaving a final phone call with her sons,Prince WilliamandPrince Harry— something that happened in real life.
In the documentary, Prince William said he recalled his last conversation with Princess Diana but did not reveal details. He shared that he and his brother were having a good time with their cousins at Balmoral when the call occurred.
Prince William and Princess Diana in 1991.Rebecca Naden/PA Images via Getty
Rebecca Naden/PA Images via Getty
Prince Harry confirmed that Princess Diana was in Paris when the phone call took place.
“I can’t really necessarily remember what I said but all I do remember is probably regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was,” the Duke of Sussex said.
He added, “If I’d known that that was the last time I was going to speak to my mother, the things that I would – the things I would have said to her…”
Princess Diana, Prince Harry, Prince Charles and Prince William in 1985.Diana Archive/Getty
Diana Archive/Getty
Richard Kay, a longtime royal reporter and friend of Princess Diana,looked back on the telephone conversationthat would turn out to be the Princess of Wales' last for a 2021 documentary.
“I spoke to her that night,” he recalled. “[The] police said that the last call she made was to me.”
She was “in quite a good place,” shared Kay. But above all, “she wanted to come back and see her boys.”
“You guys were the, almost the last people to see my mother,” Harry told them in the documentary. “Well, you saw my mother more recently than I did, I guess.”
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As children of divorced parents, William and Harry also spent time traveling between the two homes in the years before Diana’s death.
“There was the point where our parents split and . . . we never saw our mother enough or we never saw our father enough,” Prince Harry said in the documentary. “There was a lot of traveling and lot of fights on the back seat with my brother — which I would win.”
“There was all that to contend with,” he added. “And — I don’t pretend we’re the only people to have to deal with that, but it was an interesting way of growing up.”
source: people.com
