Royal commentator Duncan Larcombe has said “mistakes were made” in the first few days following Princess Diana’s untimely death in the early hours of Sunday 31 August 1997.
While nobody could have foreseen the scale or the intensity of the public reaction, Diana’s sons, Princes William and Harry, found the response was bewildering, with the Duke of Cambridge later admitting he found the public’s grief “very peculiar”, especially as he and Harry – themselves in a “state of shock” – felt obliged not to cry.
Both princes have since questioned the decision to make them walk behind their mother’s coffin at her funeral, with William saying it was “one of the hardest things I’ve ever done”.
Speaking to OK!, Duncan said: “You look back at that period and in those first few days, mistakes were definitely made.” Harry agreed that it was too much for someone so young, saying, “I don’t think it would happen today.” In addition to the public's grief, there was anger – at the paparazzi, for the part they had played in the crash that killed her – but also at the Queen, for her failure to react to the shocking news.
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