Prince William has revealed joining the solemn procession as his late grandmother made her final journey from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday brought back heartbreaking memories of his mother Princess Diana. William, now the Prince of Wales, said the moment had been “very difficult”.
Daily Express royal coresspondent Richard Palmer tweeted: “Prince William told a woman sympathising with him at Sandringham that the procession yesterday had been ‘very difficult’ and had reminded him of walking behind his mother’s coffin. He told another woman: ‘Don’t cry now, you’ll start me.'”
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‘Don’t cry’: William reveals Queen’s procession brought back heartbreaking Diana memories
Princes William and Harry walked behind the Queen’s coffin in a doleful scene reminiscent of when, as boys 25 years ago, they followed the casket of their mother Princess Diana as it was taken on a similar procession through central London.
By REBECCA PERRING
13:50, Thu, Sep 15, 2022 | UPDATED: 19:23, Thu, Sep 15, 2022
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Prince William has revealed joining the solemn procession as his late grandmother made her final journey from Buckingham Palace on Wednesday brought back heartbreaking memories of his mother Princess Diana. William, now the Prince of Wales, said the moment had been “very difficult”. Daily Express royal coresspondent Richard Palmer tweeted: “Prince William told a woman sympathising with him at Sandringham that the procession yesterday had been ‘very difficult’ and had reminded him of walking behind his mother’s coffin. He told another woman: ‘Don’t cry now, you’ll start me.'”
Roya Nikkhah, Sunday Times royal editor, tweeted: “The Prince of Wales has said walking in the #Queen’s cortège yesterday brought back memories of walking behind his mother’s coffin for Diana’s funeral procession in 1997 when William was 15, while viewing tributes to #QueenElizabethII in Sandringham with the Princess of Wales.”
Princes William and Harry walked side by side behind their grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s coffin on Wednesday.
The scenes were reminiscent of when William, now the Prince of Wales, and his brother Harry had walked behind the coffin of their mother Diana, Princess of Wales during her funeral in 1997, aged just 15 and 12. In 1997, after Diana was killed aged 36 in a car crash in Paris, William and Harry, aged 15 and 12, walked through central London in her funeral cortege, one of the defining images of their lives.
Both brothers have spoken in the past of the lasting trauma they endured after their mother’s death and that long, gruelling walk, during which they maintained a stoical facade despite the grief and turmoil they were feeling.
William said in 2017 that the shock of Diana’s death still lingered within him.
