The Duke of Cambridge told ITV in 2017 that thoughts about Diana’s legacy kept him going. He described feeling numb when he was told that his mother had died in a car crash in Paris back in 1997. William had been staying at Balmoral with Harry, Charles and the Queen.

He said: “It’ll either make or break you. And I wouldn’t let it break me.

“I wanted her to be proud of the person I would become.

“I didn’t want her worried or her legacy to be that William and/or Harry were completed and utterly devastated by it.”

Prince Harry added that Prince Charles had been “there for us” and that he “tried to make sure we were protected”.

Both princes supported the Queen’s decision to keep the family in Scotland away from the public and the press.

When they went to London for Diana’s funeral, people lined the streets to mourn her passing.

William recalled finding it “peculiar” that people who had never met his mother were “wailing in the streets”.

He said that sometimes people tried to grab him and Harry.

Both princes opened up about their decision to walk behind Diana’s coffin – with William saying it was the hardest thing he’s ever done, while Harry added he was glad to be a part of it.

However, Harry also spoke of the anger he still feels about the circumstances surrounding his mother’s death. 

He said: “She’d had quite a severe head injury, but she was very much alive on the back seat.

“And those people that caused the accident, instead of helping were taking pictures of her dying on the back seat.

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“And then those photographs made their way back to news desks in this country.”

William and Harry marked the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death in the garden at Kensington Palace created in her name.

Earlier in the year they commissioned an ITV documentary entitled ‘Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy’ in which they opened up about their feelings.

William reflected on the fact that Diana never got to meet her four grandchildren.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have one baby, Archie Harrison.

William joked that Diana would be a “nightmare grandmother”, causing havoc whenever she came round.

He said: “She’d love the children to bits, but she’d be an absolute nightmare.

“She’d come, probably at bath time, cause an amazing scene, bubbles everywhere, bathwater all over the place, and then leave.”

Harry and Meghan are on the last day of their Africa tour, during which Harry visited Angola.

This is a special tribute to Diana, who visited the country in 1997 as part of an effort to free it of landmines, a cause close to her heart.

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