Fayed and the driver were killed on impact, while Diana died due to injuries sustained during the crash at a nearby hospital. At the time, Prince William was 15 years old, and Prince Harry was just 12.
In the BBC documentary Diana, 7 Days released in 2017, Prince William recalled "just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy" upon learning about his mother's death. "You feel very, very confused," William, now 41, said.
Prince Harry was 12 and Prince William was 15 when their mother, Princess Diana, died tragically in a car crash on August 31, 1997. The two boys, up at Balmoral in Scotland with their family, were told the next morning by their father.
During her funeral procession, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer and her two children, Prince William and Prince Harry, walked behind her coffin. At the time, William and Harry were just 15 and 12 years old, respectively.
So: Did Dodi really propose to Diana with the Dis Moi Oui ring? Did she really reject him? Not to our knowledge. By all accounts—except that of Mohamed Al Fayed (we'll get to that)—the two were not engaged at the time of their deaths.
Diana's former husband, sons, mother, siblings, a close friend, and a clergyman were present. Diana's body was clothed in a black long-sleeved, three-quarter length woollen cocktail dress designed by Catherine Walker which she had chosen some weeks before, a pair of black pantyhose, and a pair of black shoes.
In the book, referring to Diana's death, Harry said he thinks that he is unable to cry in public because of his family's preference for not showing emotion. According to The Telegraph, Harry wrote, "I disliked the touch of those hands. What's more, I disliked how they made me feel: guilty.
In the 2021 book Elizabeth & Margaret: Inside the Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, Andrew Morton wrote (via the Daily Mail), "Margaret experienced a deep sense of hurt and betrayal as she watched Diana's historic interview." As a result, she reportedly cut ties with Diana altogether.
She respected the loss of her great-nephew's mother without being hypocritical as she wasn't personally fond of Diana. I think the fact that the Queen bowed her head and Margaret didn't made the Queen's gesture more powerful.
In the book, he revealed that in 2022, he took his wife Meghan Markle to visit the grave just days before his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II died. It was the 25th anniversary of Diana's own death and came two years after Harry and Meghan dramatically split from the monarchy.
Harry remembers how Charles broke the news to him and William. In the BBC documentary “Diana, 7 Days," Harry recalled how he learned of Diana's death and he prided his father for telling him what had gone on.
Also the fact he tried to apparently to call her the night she died but couldn't reach her as she changed her number breaks my heart. But it's a bit disappointing how they focused more on Dodi - Diana relationship when they only dated for two months.
King Charles' raw emotions over Princess Diana's death have recently surfaced in a newly revealed letter. The then-prince commiserated with his friend Peter over the passing of “dear Liz,” explaining how he himself felt “unbearable emptiness” nearly four months after the death of the then-Princess of Wales.
Prince William is ultimately found alone, freezing and soaking wet some 14 hours after he was last seen, according to programme makers. But the scene was branded untrue by Dickie Arbiter, the Queen's former press secretary who was in charge of media at the time of Princess Diana's death.
"I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail [in Spare] about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt, and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace," he said.
Hasnat Khan - 1995 to 1997
Khan, described by Diana as 'Mr Wonderful', was a British-Pakistani heart and lung surgeon thought by friends to have been the 'love of Diana's life'.
Princess Diana loved both her sons. Not only did her sons have different destinies, they had very different personalities.
When she was in her early 20s, she fell in love with Group Capt.Peter Townsend, a war hero who had served as an equerry to her father.
Among their revelations, the brothers describe how they are haunted by the final phone call Princess Diana made to them from Paris, hours before her death. The boys cut the conversation short because they were busy playing with their cousins - something that has caused them heartache to this day.
In real life, there was talk that the queen was simply following protocol in not addressing the nation -- Diana and Charles had divorced and therefore she wasn't technically a member of the royal family any longer -- however, those close to the monarch have said mostly that her actions were meant as a protection of her ...
The Princes were cared for by their father who was ably assisted by the boys' favourite nanny, Olga Powell. Mrs Powell, was in the employ of Charles and Diana before they went off to school. She died at age 82 in 2012. Both Princes attended her funeral.
After Princess Diana died in 1997, Charles, then the Prince of Wales, wore a navy suit to her funeral. At the time, royal watchers read his outfit choice as a tribute to the late princess; Diana was said to have preferred men in navy.
In 1986, Fayed married model Suzanne Gregard. They divorced eight months later. According to her memoir, Babylon Confidential, Claudia Christian had an on-again, off-again romance with Fayed. In 1997, Fayed reportedly became engaged to American model Kelly Fisher.
Princess Diana sold 79 of her dresses at Christie's Auction in 1997 when her son Prince William suggested she do so to raise money for charity. That auction raised $3.25 million for cancer and AIDS research.