William and Harry share their memories of Diana's funeral: "She was walking with us"
The princes made the statements in the documentary "Diana, seven days", which recounts the events that occurred during the week following the fateful accident in which Lady Di lost her life.
The image is indelible and traveled the world: William and Harry, aged 15 and 12 respectively, along with their father, Prince Charles; Her grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, and hers, her uncle, Earl Charles Spencer, walked behind her mother's coffin on a horse-drawn carriage, to accompany her on her farewell to the abbey. Westminster. Thousands of people watched his journey, charged with recollection and emotion. It was September 6, 1997, a week after Lady Di lost her life together with her then partner Dodi Al-Fayed, in a tragic car accident that occurred in the tunnel of the Alma, in Paris, when they were chased by paparazzi .
And today, almost 20 years later, William and Harry shared their memories of that moment in a documentary prepared by the BBC. "That walk was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life," William said. "It felt like she was walking right next to us," he added. On his side, Harry remembered the support they received from those present that he -remembered- "had their hands wet from the tears that had just dried." "Diana, seven days", which will be broadcast on the British network on August 27, recounts the events that occurred during the week following the fateful accident in the French capital.
This is a new opportunity for William and Harry, to open up and make public their feelings related to the death of their mother, which they have kept in reserve for 20 years. However, as they have affirmed in previous interviews this year, both considered that the twentieth anniversary of Lady Di's death was a good opportunity to talk about her mother "because we feel that we must (...) defend her name and remember her everyone the character and the person she was. " According to the Daily Mail, in another documentary recently broadcast on Channel 5 ("Diana: Seven Days That Shook the World"), Anji Hunter, the personal assistant to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, claimed that William refused to walk behind the coffin. from her mother, because she wanted to spend the sad moment in private. Hunter added that it was the Duke of Edinburgh who finally persuaded his grandson to do so.
It should be remembered that last July, Count Charles Spencer claimed that royal officials lied to him on the day of his sister's funeral, assuring him that his nephews agreed to walk behind the coffin of his mother. "They lied to me and told me they wanted to do it, which of course was not true, but I did not realize that," Spencer said in an interview with a BBC radio program. Diana's brother described the moment as "distressing" and assured that "it was the most horrible half hour of my life", although he acknowledged that for his nephews it was "millions of times worse".
