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In the first half, the boys are barely mentioned, and in the second half Diana is barely mentioned. I thought this would be a look at the relationship and special bond between mother and sons and the influence she had over their characters both when they were young and still yet today. I do think they each thought highly and fondly of the other but I learned that from other sources throughout the years, and all the coverage of all that is Diana. I did not get that sense from this book., which ultimately is a disappointing rehash of previous reports with very, very little new information. Julia" is Julia Samuel, who was one of Diana's closest friends and is a godmother to Prince George. William has followed in his mother's footsteps as patron of Samuel's charity Child Bereavement UK. The psychotherapist met Diana at a dinner in 1987 and, as she told the Daily Mail in 2015, "here was something about her and something about me that just worked. It was a lovely thing." Sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley depicted Diana with short cropped hair, in the later years of her life. Kensington Palace said the statue aims to reflect Diana’s “warmth, elegance and energy”, while three children beside her represent the “universality and generational impact of the princess’s work”. Neither William nor Harry have divulged details about what was said during their conversation with The Crown instead imagining what the trio talked about. Prince William reveals that he had been out hunting during the day while the brothers both joke about Diana’s romance with Dodi Fayed, with William nervously asking if she is going to marry him after seeing speculation in the news, something which Diana promptly denies. When an alternative plan was suggested to have just William walk alone behind the casket, Harry objected - saying he didn’t want his older brother to go through the heartbreaking moment on his own. “It didn’t seem right that Willy would have such a hard time without me,” Harry wrote in Spare.
Prince Harry, left, and Prince William greet their aunts, Sarah McCorquodale, left, and Jane Fellowes, right. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/APAs she fell in love, first with Prince Charles and then with her sons, William and Harry, the world fell in love with the young royal family - Diana most of all. The Royal Family has not normally done this, three members of the family pulling together to focus on one thing. Normally things are quite disjointed, we follow our own interests and see where it goes, but we thought, well, if we tied it together and had a focused approach, how would that work? We wanted to see the impact we could have,” Prince William said in the GQ piece.
The highly anticipated engagement was the first time the brothers have been seen together publicly since the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April. William and Harry lived at Kensington Palace with their mother before she died in a car crash in 1997. With one son destined to be King and one needing to find his own way, she taught them lessons about royal tradition and also real life. 'William and Harry will be properly prepared,' Diana once promised. 'I am making sure of this.' Several days later, on September 6, both of Diana’s sons famously had to walk behind her coffin during her funeral in front of a crowd of thousands of people.
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Earl Spencer concluded by saying, "I would like to end by thanking God for the small mercies he has shown us at this dreadful time, for taking Diana at her most beautiful and radiant and when she had joy in her private life. Above all, we give thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to call my sister: the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana, whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds."
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