25 years ago, the then 15-year-old prince along with his brother Harry, 12, followed on foot the coffin of their mother who was killed in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.
Prince William, the heir to the British throne, admitted today that walking behind his grandmother’s coffin “brought back memories”, 25 years after the death of his mother Princess Diana.
“Yesterday’s procession was a test. It brought back memories,” he said after he and his wife Kate went to see the flowers left for Queen Elizabeth by citizens in Sandringham, eastern England. “It’s those kind of moments where you think, OK, I’m prepared for this. But he was not so prepared. It was very strange,” he explained to the British who went to greet him.
On Wednesday, William joined the procession that accompanied the Queen’s coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster, where it will remain until Monday morning.
“He told us his mother would be proud of him and said yesterday was a difficult day because it brought back memories of his mother’s funeral,” said Jane Wells, 54, who was among the citizens William spoke to in Sandringham. .
25 years ago, the then 15-year-old prince along with his brother Harry, 12, followed on foot the coffin of their mother who was killed in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.
In 2017, he told a BBC documentary that taking part in that procession “was one of the hardest things” he had ever done.
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