Why JFK Jr. didn’t call Prince William and Harry after Princess Diana’s death — despite wife Carolyn’s plea

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president’s son to contact Diana’s children after she was killed in a car crash while being chased by paparazzi in 1997. JFK Jr., 38, dealt with the pain of losing a parent when his father, President John F.

Kennedy Jr., was assassinated in 1963.“Carolyn tried to get John to call Princes William and Harry to give his condolences when it came out that Diana had hoped for her sons to emulate John’s modesty in the face of media obsession,” Beller wrote in “Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy,” according to a People excerpt.

But JFK Jr. was hesitant to talk to Prince William, then 15, and Prince Harry, then 12, when they lost their mother because “he didn’t know them and thought that their situations greatly differed.” Still, JFK Jr.

was affected by the death of Diana, whom he “had met once or twice.”“The fact that she had died while being chased down by paparazzi, he was aware of the fact that their [he and Carolyn’s] lives were becoming overwrought with attention and he was upset,” Beller wrote.The author said that Bessette-Kennedy’s suggestion for her husband to call Diana’s sons “was lovely,” but he didn’t do it.“He was, by all accounts, a lovely, gracious person, but maybe that moment was too difficult for him to be able to reach out and say something to someone who’s just lost their parent in a very public and dramatic way,” Beller said about JFK Jr.Two years after Diana’s death, JFK Jr.