Princess Anne, daughter of the late Queen Elizabeth ll, has praised her mother for staying in Balmoral with a young Prince William and Harry when their mother Princess Diana died suddenly in 1997.The former Princess of Wales was just 36 years old when she was killed when the car she was travelling crashed in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris as it tried to evade paparazzi. Princess Anne said the Queen "did exactly the right thing" when she remained in the royal family's Scottish holiday residence with William, then 15 and Harry, 12, rather than returning to London immediately after Diana's death, despite facing backlash from a grieving public.The Queen's only daughter made the comments in an unseen interview from 2017 where she also praised her parents' 73 year marriage, saying that their "partnership was really important".
Diana's 'loyalty to the Queen and public' is her legacy and William carries it on, says friend
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It’s been 25 years since Princess Diana's death, and as we approach the anniversary of her fatal car crash in the Pont de L’Alma in Paris, her former bodyguard Ken Wharfe has told us how he describes her legacy in 2022. The author, 73, told OK!: "It was her unfailing loyalty to the Queen, to the monarchy, and a commitment to making life better for ordinary people, for the homeless, the dispossessed." Ken then admitted that he thinks her eldest son - Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge - has been carrying her legacy on.
He added: "That’s being echoed particularly by William now, and that legacy is one of the reasons why we still talk about her 25 years on." Ken has co-written a book with journalist Ros Coward, Diana: Remembering The Princess, in which he looks back over what he describes to OK! as his “extraordinary journey” with her. He says: “The younger generation who didn’t know Diana are trying to understand, ‘What was the magic with this woman? Why are we still talking about her 25 years on?’” Ken looked back on the first time he met Diana, revealing the way she "embraced" people was magic and he experienced a sense of normalcy from the Princess of Wales.
"I was nervous about meeting a member of the royal family, but Diana made that experience completely the opposite," he revealed. "When I met her at Sandringham, in Norfolk, William and Harry were there.
"William was attempting to play the piano and Harry was being a pest and she said to me, 'I don’t envy you doing this, Ken, looking after my children.They can be a bloody nuisance.'" He added: "I sensed that real sense of normalcy. I thought this woman could be a friend you knew, there wasn’t this division.That was part of her magic, the way she embraced people."
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