{"id":251,"date":"2023-12-05T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2023-12-05T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:22:39","slug":"prince-williams-last-ever-words-to-diana-breaks-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Prince William\u2019s last ever words to Diana breaks our hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"5c53f654ecb6b2e2c397431cfdb6dd0a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:99px 0 99px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M926082ScriptRootC1556461\"><\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/m\/a\/makamuki.com.1556461.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Princess Diana\u2019s death was a shock to the world. Millions worldwide mourned the \u201cPeople\u2019s Princess,\u201d and her funeral became the most-watched broadcast in history. Many felt that they had lost a family member. But for some, that was their reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prince William and Prince Harry were only children when they lost their mother and famously walked behind her coffin before she was laid to rest. The brothers were at Balmoral at the time of the accident, and what went on the following day was nothing short of a significant trauma.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prince William and Prince Harry spoke with their mother earlier, the same day she was involved in the horrific car crash in Paris that took her life. In an interview about their mother, the Prince of Wales revealed the heartbreaking last words he ever told her.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-11.png 680w, https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-11-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately 12.23 am, in the early hours of August 31, 1997, Princess Diana\u2019s car crashed in The Pont de l\u2019Alma tunnel in Paris, France. She and her boyfriend, the Egyptian-born film magnate Dodi Fayed, were traveling in the car together from the Ritz Hotel \u2014 accompanied by a driver and bodyguard. They were pursued by paparazzi journalists and crashed at high speed in the Paris tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-princess-diana-s-tragic-death\">Princess Diana\u2019s tragic death<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Diana\u2019s partner, Dodi Fayed, and the car\u2019s driver, Henri Paul, were found dead inside the vehicle. Meanwhile, her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beloved princess received lengthy treatment by medics at the scene but suffered a cardiac arrest while in the ambulance. By six minutes past two in the morning, Diana had reached the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon arrival at the hospital, Diana underwent an X-ray that revealed she had suffered severe internal injuries. As a result, she immediately received a blood transfusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just 15 minutes after arriving, Diana suffered another cardiac arrest. Surgeon MonSef Dahman performed a surgical procedure, but the princess\u2019s injuries were too grave. Her heart would not restart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MonSef Dahman became the one in charge of trying to keep Diana alive. In an interview with the&nbsp;<em>Daily Mail<\/em>, he told the story of what happened that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe thought that you have lost an important person, for whom you cared personally, marks you for life,\u201d he told the British news outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe tried electric shocks, several times and, as I had done in the emergency room, cardiac massage,\u201d Dahman explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dahman and his medical team fought to keep Diana alive. But in the end, there wasn\u2019t much they could do. He explained that the Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re hospital was one of France\u2019s best centers for these types of emergencies, and saving people brought in made him \u201chappy and proud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-12.png 676w, https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-12-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Diana\u2019s case, he felt hope at the beginning. But ultimately, they couldn\u2019t save her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While surgeons in Paris fought to keep Princess Diana alive, far away, at Balmoral in Scotland, her two children, Prince William and Prince Harry, stayed with their father, King Charles, and their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How William and Harry found out about Diana\u2019s passing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>William was born two years before Harry, but both brothers had a wonderful childhood. Their mother knew the importance of their future. But she also understood that \u2013 even though they weren\u2019t like other children \u2013 they had to be given a childhood as close to normal as possible. It was something that, later in life, Prince William and his wife, Kate, would apply to their children\u2019s upbringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Princess Diana died, the royal family was, of course, in shock. Though Diana and Charles had divorced less than a year earlier, her eldest son, William, would one day become King, and Harry was tipped to have an essential role within the monarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The children \u2013 William, then age 15, and Harry, then, age 12 \u2013 were asleep when the news broke. When they woke up, Queen Elizabeth II knew how important it was to protect the two princes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She instructed her staff at Balmoral to let the young boys sleep in before telling them to hide all the TVs and radios in the Castle. Then, when they went to church the following morning, Her Majesty forbade everyone from mentioning Diana\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry claimed in his book&nbsp;<em>Spare<\/em>&nbsp;that his father \u201cdidn\u2019t hug him\u201d after Diana\u2019s death. The two children were, of course, in shock and were devastated. Speaking in the documentary<em>&nbsp;Diana, 7 Days<\/em>, William recalled how he felt \u201ccompletely numb,\u201d \u201cdisorientated,\u201d and \u201cdizzy\u201d when the tragic news arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou feel very, very confused. And you keep asking yourself, \u2018Why me?\u2019 All the time, \u2018Why? What have I done? Why? Why has this happened to us?\u2019\u201d William said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-13.png 676w, https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-13-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing like it in the world,\u201d he explained in the documentary&nbsp;<em>Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy<\/em>. \u201cThere really isn\u2019t. It\u2019s like an earthquake has just run through the house and through your life and everything. Your mind is completely split. And it took me a while for it to actually sink in.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cIt was very difficult to communicate\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Family members tried to talk to William and Harry about what had happened. The two had just lost their dear mother, and it was hard to grasp what had happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe family came together, and Harry and I tried to talk as best we could about it,\u201d he said in<em>&nbsp;Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy<\/em>. \u201cBut being so small at that age, it was very difficult to communicate or understand your feelings. It\u2019s\u2026 very complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 6, 1997, Princess Diana was laid to her final rest. An estimated 2.5 billion people watched the funeral, and viewers saw how the two young children, William and Harry, walked behind their mother\u2019s coffin in the cort\u00e9ge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television,\u201d Harry told&nbsp;<em>Newsweek<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t think any child should be asked to do that under any circumstances. I don\u2019t think it would happen today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Princess Diana was buried at her family\u2019s estate of Althorp, on a small island in the middle of the Oval Lake. Naturally, moving on was very hard. However, despite their immense sorrow, they tried to maintain a positive image towards the public and put on a brave face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSlowly, you try and rebuild your life, and you try and understand what\u2019s happened, and I kept saying to myself that, you know, my mother would not want me to be upset,\u201d William said. \u201cShe\u2019d not want me to be down. She\u2019d not want me to be like this. I kept myself busy as well\u2014which is good and bad sometimes\u2014but allows you to kind of get through that initial shock phase.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-14.png 681w, https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-14-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Princess Diana prioritized her children over everything, whether she was a princess or not. She tried to protect them the best way she could, but Diana was afraid she\u2019d lose them when she and Charles were heading towards a divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">William and Harry\u2019s last-ever phone call to Diana<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to biographer Howard Hodgson, author of the 2007 book&nbsp;<em>Charles: The Man Who Will Be King<\/em>, Diana feared that Queen Elizabeth and Charles wanted to separate her from her children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe was well aware that the Queen had the constitutional right and authority under common law to take control of both boys\u2019 care and education,\u201d Hodgson wrote, as quoted by&nbsp;<em>Express<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs such she could become the boys\u2019 guardian or even appoint one: this would probably be their father and that might lead to Diana\u2019s exclusion if she finally burned all her bridges with the Royal Family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hodgson added that Queen Elizabeth never intended to separate Diana from her sons. But Diana believed the Queen and Charles \u201chad already hatched such a plot and were only waiting for the right moment to execute it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diana, William, and Harry always kept in contact, no matter if she was close to home or in another part of the world. The same went for the night of August 30, 1997, when she called her children from Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the documentary&nbsp;<em>Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy<\/em>, William and Harry spoke more about the last time they spoke with their mother, though, Harry said he couldn\u2019t remember what they talked about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-15.png 677w, https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-15-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut all I do remember is regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was. If I\u2019d known that that was the last time I was going to speak to my mother, the things I would have said to her,\u201d the now-estranged Duke of Sussex said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cCan I go off?\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLooking back at it now \u2014 it\u2019s incredibly hard. I have to deal with that for the rest of my life: not knowing that it was the last time I\u2019d speak to my mum, how differently that conversation would have panned out if I\u2019d had even the slightest inkling that her life was going to be taken that night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prince William had some more clear memories of what the call involved. And he will never forget the last few heartbreaking words he uttered to his mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe very last memory I have is a phone call from Balmoral. At the time, Harry and I were running around, minding our own business, playing with our cousins, and having a very good time,\u201d William said. \u201cHarry and I were in a desperate rush to say, \u2018Goodbye, see you later, can I go off?\u2019 If I\u2019d known what was going to happen, I wouldn\u2019t have been quite so blas\u00e9 about it. That phone call sticks in my mind quite heavily.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the horrible car accident that took their mother\u2019s life, William and Harry grew up into respectable men thanks to the love and support of their family. Still to this day, and most likely for all days to come, they will continue to honor their mother\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-16.png 676w, https:\/\/makamuki.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-16-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 1, 2021, on what would have been Diana\u2019s 60 birthday, Prince William and Prince Harry attended the unveiling of a new bronze statue of their mother in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, on what would have been our Mother\u2019s 60th birthday, we remember her love, strength and character \u2013 qualities that made her a force for good around the world, changing countless lives for the better,\u201d the brothers said in a shared statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery day, we wish she were still with us, and our hope is that this statue will be seen forever as a symbol of her life and her legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rest in peace, Princess Diana. 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