How William Always Preserves Princess Diana’s Memory Alive made Catherine Moved to Tears
How William Always Preserves Princess Diana’s Memory Alive made Catherine Moved to Tears
Prince William makes sure to actively remember his mother Princess Diana – and a royal expert has revealed one emotional reason he does so.
- The Duke of Cambridge wants to keep Diana’s memory alive for his children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
- Royal commentator Katie Nicholl revealed that William is keen for his children to know all about their late grandmother.
- This follows royal news that Prince William’s 38th birthday will be bittersweet this weekend as he misses Diana.
HOW DOES PRINCE WILLIAM KEEP DIANA’S MEMORY ALIVE?
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge keep Princess Diana’s memory alive in many ways.
Royal commentator Katie Nicholl told OK! magazine, “They have photos of Diana around the house, very deliberately so, and he speaks about her to the children.
“He and Kate share stories with them about how Diana helped people and they tell the children how much they would have loved their grandmother.”
Prince William celebrates his 38th birthday this Sunday – the same day as Father’s Day – but it will be bittersweet for him as he misses Diana.
Speaking in his recent BBC documentary Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health, William explained that the pain of losing his parent still affects him.
“You feel pain like no other pain. And you know that in your life it’s going to be very difficult to come across something that’s going to be even worse pain than that,’ he said.
“But it also brings you so close to all those other people out there who have been bereaved.
“So you instantly, when you talk to someone else, you can almost see it in their eyes sometimes and it’s a weird thing to say but when someone’s desperate to talk about bereavement, you can kind of pick up on it quite quick.”
Speaking on how Diana’s absence will play a part on his birthday, Katie Nicholl added, “William misses his mother. It must be emotional for him that she’s not here to share this.
“She’s still a significant part of his life so inevitably, on his birthday, his thoughts will be with her.”
The Princess of Wales’ £390k engagement ring from Prince William has a connection to snake bites. Yes, really!
Prince William’s proposal to his then-girlfriend Kate Middleton was as romantic as it gets, with the royal popping the question to his university sweetheart during a private holiday to Kenya.
The Prince of Wales famously proposed with his late mother’s diamond and sapphire engagement ring, which she had picked out from Garrard ahead of her marriage to King Charles in 1981.
12 years on, the Prince and Princess of Wales are still happily married, and Princess Kate’s heirloom ring remains one of the most recognisable royal engagement rings in the world – but did you know it bears a strange, secret symbolism?
Princess Kate’s sentimental sparkler would have cost approximately £28,500 at the time of Princess Diana’s proposal, which would make it worth £102,501 in line with the Bank of England’s inflation calculator today. However, other reports have suggested the value could now be up to £390,000.
It’s not the cost that is symbolic, though. According to Justin Daughters of Berganza, the prestige of sapphires holds a seriously impressive history.