his last phone conversation with Harry and William still haunts them

Lady Diana lost her life on August 31, 1997 in a road accident in the tunnel under Place de l’Alma in Paris. Prince Charles’ ex-wife left behind her two sons, William, 15, and Harry, 12. Nothing and no one could imagine that the princess of hearts would know such a fatal fate, starting with his children. As they revealed in the documentary Diana, our mother: her life, her legacybroadcast in 2017 on the channel ITV in England, they were lucky to hear his voice a few hours before his death.

While the boys were on vacation in Scotland, Diana Spencer called her sons to check on them. A brief call, during which the children and their mother only exchanged formalities. However, a few hours later, Lady Diana tragically died of her injuries. In 2017, twenty years after the fact, princes William and Harry shared their regrets about this brief conversation. Words that still haunt them today.

What William and Harry remember from the last conversation with Lady Diana

In the documentary Diana, our mother: her life, her legacythe two brothers remember having cut short the phone call to go back to play with their cousins. Naturally, they could never have imagined that it was the last time they heard their mother’s voice. “If I had known what was going to happen, I wouldn’t have been so jaded on the phone”revealed in particular the Duke of Cambridge, before adding: “Harry and I were in a rush to say ‘goodbye’, to say ‘see you soon’. But that call still sticks in my mind, a lot.”

As for Harry, despite his young age at the time of the events, he shares the same sorrow and the same regrets as his eldest : “Looking back on it now, it’s incredibly difficult. I’m going to have to deal with this for the rest of my life. This conversation might have turned out differently if I had any idea that his life was going to be taken that night. It was her speaking from Paris, I can’t really remember what I said, but I will probably regret the rest of my life that this call was so short.