Prince William has revealed the intense anger he felt in the wake of his mother’s death, after she was killed in a 1997 Paris road accident.
As we mark the 20th year since Princess Diana’s untimely death, her eldest son William has revealed how he reacted in the immediate aftermath of his mother’s passing.
Speaking to children at an east London bereavement centre, William apparently told Lorna Ireland and her son Shinobi that he was “very angry” and found it difficult to articulate his feelings.
He also told a little girl who had tragically lost her mother: “I lost my mummy when I was very young too.”
According to reporters at the scene, William urged the children not to bottle up their loss, and that they talk to people close to them about how they feel.
As he spoke to Aoife, 9, who recently lost a father to cancer, her mother said she felt “very emotional…I was willing myself not to cry. I almost did.”
The Duke of Cambridge was 15 when Princess Di was killed in a car crash in a Paris tunnel. His brother Harry was just 12.
It’s only in recent years that the pair have begun to talk about their loss, with Harry saying last year that he regrets not opening up sooner about how his mother’s death affected him.
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