William & Harry's Greatest Regret
Globe|August 21 2017

‘SHE WAS THE BEST MOTHER EVER’

William & Harry's Greatest Regret

PRINCES William and Harry are haunted by their last phone call with their mother — because they cut it short.

Just hours before her death in Paris, she telephoned her sons at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where they were staying with their father, Prince Charles, her ex-husband.

“Harry and I were running around, playing with our cousins, having a good time,” confesses William.

“Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say ‘goodbye,’ ‘see you later,’‘can I go off?’”

But, of course, they never got the chance.

Diana and her boys hadn’t seen each other for almost a month. They were all looking forward to a reunion in London the day after the phone call.

Instead, her sons awoke to the shattering news their mother was dead.

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