Princess Diana and Prince Charles married in their spectacular royal wedding in 1981. The Prince and Princess of Wales welcomed Prince William in 1982 and Prince Harry in 1984. However, it was an image from Prince Charles' childhood in 1954 that had a “lasting effect” on how Diana approached her parenting of their two sons. Related articles How the Queen could NOT understand Diana: 'Millions of housemaids!' Prince William’s HEARTBREAKING last conversation with Diana revealed The newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth II returned from her longest ever tour of the Commonwealth and came home to her children Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who had been left behind. Andrew Morton, in his 2011 book “William and Catherine”, describes the scene: “On greeting her eldest son, then aged five, after an absence of six months, the new Queen shook his hand rather than hugging him.” He writes: “That image was to have a lasting effect on Diana, Princess of Wales. “As she began to find her way inside the Royal Family, she resolved that her own children would never suffer such emotional remoteness. An image of the QUeen with Prince Chalres had a "lasting effect" on Diana (Image: Getty) The Queen returns home from the six-month long tour in 1954 (Image: Getty) “It set William’s (and, later, Harry’s) upbringing on a trajectory that fused, sometimes uncomfortably, the traditional royal stiff upper lip with behaviour that was informal, relaxed and approachable.” In contrast to the Queen’s lengthy touring duties that took her away from the young Prince Charles, Diana and Charles chose to take the toddler prince on royal tour to Australia in 1983. This was echoed by William himself and Kate Middleton when they took eight-month-old Prince George to Australia, too. Mr Morton also describes how Diana’s approach to parenting sometimes bemused the Royal Family. Diana resolved to bring up William and Harry with more emotional warmth (Image: Getty) He reports how the Queen exclaimed: “I don’t understand why Diana has to do this. “There’s millions of housemaids.” With newborn arrival Archie Harrison now on the scene, many are turning towards Princess Diana’s example as an indicator of how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may choose to parent the new royal baby. This month, royal biographer Angela Levin told US television presenter Gayle King: “The most important thing for him about his mother was that she kept him safe. “We talked about how she sparkled and laughed and he thought that she was the best mother in the world.”All rights reserved for this news site express.co.uk and under his responsibility