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".
For all of the latest updates, sign up for OK!'s Royal newsletter. She said of the Queen after Diana's death: "I think my mother did exactly the right thing.
I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any right-minded parent should believe... [there] would have been an alternative to bring those children down here to London in all that hoo-ha. "I just don't know how you can think that would've been a better thing to do." When asked by ITV News Royal Editor Chris Ship if the Queen was simply putting her grandchildren first, Princess Anne replied: "Absolutely." She continued: "I don't think either of those two would've been able to cope had they been anywhere else. "That was the only good thing that happened was that they were there, and they had that structure, they had people around them who could understand, give them the time." Princess Diana' sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale also defended the.
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