Princess Diana died at the age of 36 on August 31, 1997, when she was killed in a car crash in the Alma tunnel in Paris, alongside Dodi Al-Fayed and their driver Henri Paul. Prince William and Prince Harry were spending their summer with Prince Charles and the rest of the Royal Family at Balmoral when the tragedy unfolded. The princes, who were 15 and 12 at the time, spoke to their mother that day, and were looking forward to welcoming Diana home to the UK the next day.
Heartbreakingly, Diana was involved in the car crash that killed her that night.
Biographer Andrew Morton, in his 2011 book “William and Catherine”, reports William’s final conversation with his mother, in which he was touchingly worried about his younger brother.
Mr Morton writes: “While Diana lay on the deck of a luxury yacht under the Mediterranean sun, William was concerned about an edict from Buckingham Palace that he had to attend a photocall to mark his third year at Eton.
“It was part of what he considered a Faustian bargain made with the
