Princess Diana's brother : 'I was lied to' over funeral procession - BBC News
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- Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer says he was lied to about Prince William and Prince Harry wanting to walk behind their mother's coffin.
He told the Today programme it was a "bizarre and cruel thing" for the princes to do and the funeral procession was "the most horrifying half an hour of my life".
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I knew they didn’t want to do it , and i don’t blame them , a 15 year old and 12 year old who have just lost their beloved mother walking behind her dead body in her coffin with thousands watching them , it’s heart breaking
Harry says that he’s glad he did it. William says it was a group decision.
He should have been carrying the casket. They do around here to honor!
Character & Self control!
Millions watching. Not thousands
@@lauralutz4538 You can develop that WITHOUT walking behind your mother's coffin, as a CHILD, under the gaze of millions of people.
all secrets will come out after the queen dies.
Hopefully
It will all come out in 100 years when we are all dead. That's history
It will come out eventually when either when the queen finally goes or when they think that nobody will be bothered anymore either way the truth will come out and honestly I think we all know the things we've been told are all nonsense but we just have to wait for the truth when it does come out she will finally be able to rest in peace
@@angelaprince3482 Maybe when my generation is in their 80s.
You can be sure the flood of mumbojumbo dezinformations and speculative mindrapings will - and that is no secret.
Whoever thought it was such a bright idea for those two young boys to walk behind their mothers coffin was a cruel insensitive beast.
@Sandy Brown Good question, why did The Queen allow it? Exposing these boys to such public exposure right after their mothers death, when they should have only been walking into the church from a back door, not walking for miles behind her coffin. Prince Charles as the father should have stopped it.
It was either The Queen or Prince Charles who made them, no-one else would have had the power to neither way. It was disgraceful and completely heartless. My gut says Prince Charles. Someone knows who it was, one day we may find out.
@@lee-annebarrett366 Prince Charles allowed it but his father was the fool who really pushed it.
Apparently, Prince Philip asked William if he wanted to walk behind his mother, William said that if he walks with him he will do it. Idk about Harry.
@@taylisseraga7021 Then Prince Charles and The Queen should have stopped it. The faces of those boys is heartbreaking Prince Harry as a very young boy looks terrible. Maybe William could have, but lm not sure about that, Prince Harry was to young.
They should never have been exposed like that.
@@lee-annebarrett366 I agree, but if they wanted to do it, then they should’ve respect their decision. I don’t think they would’ve forced them to do it.
The lady who was so full of life and love and the willingness to help people didn't get appreciated by her companion..... Rip lady Diana. Love
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EVERY time I see them walking behind their mothers coffin.. all these years later I still get tears in my eyes. Especially now that I am a mother, I would never, never want my babies to be forced to do that.
Makes them more of asses for having them of done that. The grownups in that family had no sense whatsoever!
@@tinahuttner7280 they did not make them do
@@vivianebeget The boys were guilt tripped into doing it. Their grandfather them ”Youll regret it if you dont”. That's pressure 101.
They were not forced. And they were not babies.
William was mid teens and a young man who needs a bit of gumption about him. He will one day be King.
Harry was a few dayts off his 13th birthday.
It was sad. It was a terrible day for both of them.
But PUBLICLY HONOURING their Mother was appropriate for tw teenaged boys.
If Harry had been told he was not old enough, and should ride in the car with Grandma, then he really WOULD have something to complain about.
Treating him like a littel child, while William was treated like a man would have been truly humiliating.
@@MandyJMaddison What utter ignorance : Harry has himself stated in an interview that they didn't want to do it ; of course they were morally blackmailed into doing it ; my own son is 13 and I wold NEVER expect him to do that , far less if it were such a public funeral , which mine never will be . It would have been enough for them to have attended the funeral service and , optionally , the private family service where she was laid to rest at Althorp . Their odious father is responsible for this outrage . You clearly think you know better than Harry or their uncle !
Isn't he the brother who doesn't want Diana to stay at his house when Diana wanted to because she was depressed and needed help? Uh-huh.
Horror Pill--You must understand that things in England concerning the royals run by far different rules than those for non-royals and those who live outside the UK and British Commonwealth of nations. The aristocracy are to support the monarchy, not take issue with it (it CAN be considered treason) and, since much of their livelihood in their estates hinge on the grace and favor of the monarch and royals, they aren't about to bite the hand that feeds them. Charles Spencer, then recently made Earl Spencer upon the death of his father, spoke truth to power at Diana's eulogy, and the royals gritted their teeth and stiffened their upper lip while he did so. Charles then found it expedient to move to the Spencer estates in Africa for a number of years. Now, Charles, Earl Spencer is no more a saint than Diana was (he's on wife number 3 now), but that ought to give you an idea of how much power the "royals" and the monarch hold over the aristocracy. So Diana, with a crumbling marriage, wasn't about to be taken in when she had access to so many homes as the heir's wife and mother of his sons AND Charles Spencer was going through the collapse of his first marriage at the same time (divorced Victoria Lockwood in 1997).
@irishxxkelt--When it comes to funding the running of an estate, blood is a LOT less thick than water.
irishxxkelt Not true! The Althorp Estate has 100 “cottages” on it. The one Diana wanted would have provided difficulties to accommodate Diana her two sons, and security officers that travel with them everywhere. At that time her sons, had three protection officers each, she had one. That particular cottage was not able to accommodate 10 people comfortably, it was also too close to the main road. That posed a security treat to her, and her sons. Her brother offered her another cottage, but she had refused. Instead when she visited her family estate , she like other Spencer family members stayed in the main house. She visited her brother, and his family in South Africa. He too attended a function on her last Birthday, for a charity she supported. That was the last time he saw her. Her sister Sarah talked to her, the day before she died.
What kind of brother he was
EXACTLY 🥀
DIANA, PRINCESS WAS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN INSIDE & OUT.
Well, Anthony...... are you one of the very numerous line-up of men who know what she was like on the inside?
I'm princess Diana 💗😂💗😂 cousins with my sister as well.
We missed her badly.
VERY PAINFUL FOR PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY.
What do the princes think
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You MUST continue your mother's vision&mission: To be good royal who work for better world&planet. You can ALWAYS enjoy this life: Holiday in the beach with chocolate and then back to your duty. Duty isn't bad, it's job, so we can eat &drink satisfiedly!
@Tavia Williams it's not a case of growing up you cruel hearted beast
@Tavia Williams Are you living in the 16th century still?
True...both of them WILLIAM and HARRY...NOT JUST HARRY...William also Diana's son
This brother refused to have Diana in his place by the time she asked for help.
Please, don’t judge. We don’t know everything. The family was dysfunctional but whose family isn’t?
To be fair, it would have meant huge concerns over security at his home with Di living there. He had his young children to think about.
True also.
We dont know why Diana and her brother had a riff. It mustve been hard for him too that they didnt patch up before she died.
Imagine some new age Margot Robbie or angelina jolie coming and staying in your house and you could not afford security for yourselves and for her. It's a nightmare. Diana's security was the responsibility of the crown, she won't have been mobbed by people and paparazzi if she hadn't married into the family.
NO, that is not what happened at all.
Althorp is a huge estate with a stately home about as big as Buckingham Palace, and numerous farms and dwellings. Diana asked specifically for a particular house that was occupied by a family who were farming the land that surrounded it. Her brother said No.
I heard that Harry hated it so much that he had to dig his nails into his hands to keep from crying.
May she rest in peace . . . Amen . . .
Charles her brother did not help her when she asked him for help if we believe what we've been told but it's he who has to live with the guilt and the thought of what if?he played his part in her fate but I'd say the main blame lies with the royal family and imparticular Charles.if Diana had closed her eyes and kept her mouth closed in order to allow that self indulgent prick to carry on having his cake and eating it then there is no doubt she would be alive today and a well worn doormat but she didn't and more power to her for it.she called him out and made sure everyone knew what type of man and I use the word man very reluctantly he was and is.but I believe in justice some call it karma whatever you want to call it and I believe he will receive it in the future in whatever form it comes.
I know he will. Praise God
Still not
You are correct. He’s an hypocrite. Period. As a guardian to her nephews, what did he do when the British media & press wanted to tear Meghan in to shreds? East did Earl Spencer do?
Yeah and this is why I'm kind of elated that Netflix made The Crown. I know it's dramatize and not all true, but it's more than enough to teach the world that Prince Charles, Camilla, and the royal family are pretty much messed up as Diana has always said and showed. Diana might be dead, but I think right now she's having the last laugh.
She should have kept her legs closed too. People tend to forget that while she was crying, and gaining sympathy because of the 'other woman', she was the 'other woman' in her many indiscretions. They were all adulterers - Charles, Diana, Camilla, and Andrew Parker Bowles.
Princess Diana is missed forever.
What's wrong with them walking behind the coffin though? I'm not British so this may be a cultural difference but family members usually follow the coffin to the burial site and say goodbye there. It's like staying with the person and taking a final walk, better than sitting home and wondering how the funeral went
British people dont walk behind the coffin... they tend to ride along on cars hidden from sight... what those boys were told to do was appalling so young and in the glare of publicity... the RF made therm do it cos their popularity had hit rock bottom they knew that using those boys was worth a gamble and the public didnt dare say anything or do anything with the boys there but by god... if they hadn't been the RF would have been lynched!
I have to admit I would be willing to walk beside my parents coffin when that day comes I did the same with my grandfather’s coffin when I was 13 but I guess it’s a personal preference and I didn’t have a thousand pairs of eyes on me
None of Diana's family bothered with her so why is her brother getting so annoyed he was living in Austrialia and didn't care iether....
Bollocks, he was the Earl Spencer, living all but the winter at Althorp. Try to keep up.
@@lizziebkennedy7505 After Diana and Charles divorced, she asked and begged her brother to allow her to live back at Althorp. It was the only place she felt comfortable. It was her home. Earl Spencer told her no she couldn't move there. But it is true that her family didn't bother with her and offered her no help when she really needed it.
Could be guilt. But also, we'll never know the full story
That is exactly right. I heard her butler interview and was like, wow
Regardless, that's his sister. Just because he wasn't right with her...doesnt mean he would want her children to suffer.
Besides Earl Spencer’s Eulogy of his sister, the son’s/ family procession behind her coffin was THE MOST poignant moment of the funeral for me.
I guess the public has COMPLETELY forgotten when Dianna asked her brother for help and he denied her EVEN that. At the time of her death, Dianna was NOT even speaking to the four-times married charles spencer. I guess the public has forgotten EVERYTHING that chick-chit brother of dianna's & ALL the hurt he caused her. SHORT MEMORIES, HUH??
that's not true. JUST GOOGLE It
Help her with what?
and what makes you assume that the public have forgotten anything at all about that?
josh gordon actually it is true. It was in letters her butler had. It was shortly after the separation.
He wasn’t married four times.
Poor boys, heartbreaking
Some commenters here seem unable to differentiate between 'children walking behind their mum's coffin as it goes into the church at a private funeral' and 'children being forced to walk behind their mum's coffin for half an hour in front of millions of people'.
When I watched Diana's funeral, the sight of the boys walking behind their mother's coffin horrified me. It moved me so deeply, including the flowers with the note that said mummy. I wept so hard that day.
I agree that Diana would not have wanted that. I do not mind that her funeral was state instead of private- to me that seems appropriate, considering how loved she was- but the boys could have been given more privacy.
I still wonder if it was truly an accident, or if she was murdered. Charles had a strong motive.
I miss her so much.❤
Do you think that Diana's death was mysterious?
he could not marry that other women whilst Diana was alive... pretty obvious!
I agree, although technically it was not a State funeral. Because her Royal status was removed, but she was still HUGELY popular and beloved, it was decided to give Diana the feel of a State funeral but with representatives of her favorite charities following behind rather than full military brigades as for a Monarch or a Statesman like Churchill.
Well it was part of the protocol... the people and him were histeric that she wasnt going to have an official royal funeral
It may have been the worse day of their lives but I think it was totally right for them to have walked their mother those last steps to her final rest. Sometimes there are no second chances in a situation, and your parents funeral is one of those times. It was hard on them but they should never look back and say I wish I hadn't done that or been there. They showed their metal that day and they were the only true loves of Diana's life walking with her.
Thank you. I agree. Absolutely the right thing to do, as they were her most loved sons. They can look back on this moment of their lives with utmost pride. And say " I am glad i could do that".
They both said in an interview on Diana that it upset them then but later they were both glad they did. I did see the interview and remember being relieved because I found it very emotional to watch.
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William spoke just the other day about walking behind his Grandmother coffin brought back all the trauma he felt walking behind his mother's, it damaged those two boys. It was hard enough now he is a 40 year old man, never mind a 15, and 12 year old boys.
Formality and no direct contact, courtiers handling all details is the way of avoiding reality. They wanted all of it swept under the carpet. Involving the sons of Diana was a safety issue for the royal family. Charles was afraid of being killed by somebody in the crowd. Queen had to realize the public was against her. During church service in Balmoral on the Sunday after Diana’s death she wasn’t mentioned, boys were attending, pretense necessary nothing worth mentioning has happened. They wanted the Spensers to handle the funeral, far away from London. Let’s forget she ever existed..... it started with how she was treated during the marriage and the divorce. Taking away the HRH meant her security reduced to practically nothing. Monetary settlement ridiculously meager, no place to take the boys during holidays. Her brother Charles was preoccupied with his own problems, wives and children during summer holidays. Diana to her detriment brought hordes of photographers, tabloid press along with her wherever she went. Only extremely wealthy and/or royal people with remote islands, castles, yachts and 24 hour security staff could handle that. From being a virgin bride to a whining self important 32 year old prince of Wales, 12 years her senior, she was abandoned. Being a single mother of two small boys and having the institution of the royal court against her she had to endure insinuations of not living a “moral” read virginal life. God forbid having a boyfriend, craving love and affection, not wanting to continue the pretense of a non existing marriage. If her anorexia/bulimia had killed her, or she had become an alcoholic (Margaret), or a drug dependent mentally unstable aging woman with boy toys in her luggage, they could have pretended it was all her own shortcomings to blame. Instead she had her own causes in life that she dedicated her life to, she became better, stronger, more resilient, more intelligent and aware of the value of truth to one self and her children. When she died and we shall never know exactly why all those bizarre circumstances came together on that night, she was on her way up, improving herself and the world around her. We wish that she would have had more time to show them what a princess she was, what a rare jewel of a human being, shining, sparkling not to be crushed by envy, falsity or attempts to ignore her existence. She left her mark on our world, her sons and the royal family. 22 years later she is still a presence, Charles will go down in history as Diana’s undeserving husband, he can’t help who he is.
I don't see how this is so wrong...
I always thought ( at least at the time) that they walked behind the coffin because they wanted to do it for their mother. I wasn't much older than William when my mum died and I was in the funeral car right behind the one carrying her coffin, and could clearly see it. Before that her coffin had been in our house for a few hours. No one made me go through that...I was an only child and my dad gave me the choice about what we should do. I wanted her to be at home with us before we finally let her go for the last time. If it had been a procession like Diana's procession I would have wanted to walk behind her. Yes it hurts, but to me that would feel like one last thing you could do for a dead parent. My 2 sons carried their paternal grandmother's coffin when they were aged 17 and 19 ( with their dad and dad's brother) because they wanted to do that for her. It seemed very apt for my mother in law's 2 sons and 2 grandsons to carry her on her final journey. It broke my heart to see William and Harry suffering at their mother's funeral like I had at a similar age, but yet I never thought it was wrong for them to walk behind her coffin.
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It was wrong because they didn't want to do it but were forced to do it. Being in public and dealing with this obviously scarred Harry in a way that maybe if he was allowed to grieve in private it wouldn't have done.
It is interesting that you talk about choice here because that's what makes these boys walking behind their mother's coffin wrong, the mere fact it wasn't a choice for them but an obligation they had to do because that's how the firm decided it would be done. It's concerning that even years later the institution is still stuck in its old ways which don't make sense anymore.
@@Kashish4Eijaz I honestly can't remember all the details now of what was said about them doing this, but I seem to remember Prince Philip being mentioned, as having talked to them about doing it. There's one thing that I always tend to think though, which is this....maybe they would have regretted it years later if they hadn't done it. I've known of kids who either chose not to go to a parent's funeral at a young age, or weren't allowed to, which could have resulted in regret years later. I know I was older ( yet a 17 year old back then was less mature than today's 17 year olds) but I would have deeply regretted it if I hadn't gone to my mother's funeral. I have had a lot more than my fair share of close family deaths, and have always both gone to their funerals and seen them in their coffins. Bar 1. It was my mother's sister who I was very close to, and for some reason I didn't go to see her in her coffin, and to this day I regret it ( and I'm 60 now). I know it's not really the same thing, but it's sligtly similar and involves later regret. I still feel bad and like I betrayed her.
I have 2 sons and at the ages of 17 and 19 they carried their paternal grandmother's coffin with their dad and his brother. There was no kind of force or guilt tripping them into it....they wanted to. Again, kind of similar.
@@amandadavies.. I am sorry to hear about your losses. A family death and the funeral is never easy. Even after it takes a long time to recover.
With this case, it's obvious Harry took it more badly than William.. I think William doesn't regret the walk as he's said he's proud he was part of it. But with Harry it haunts him and has had a devastating impact on his life and mental health. So I think it comes down to each individual person and how they deal with grief. Harry is a lot like Diana.. something not only he but Diana's closest friends say too. He wears his heart on his sleeve and makes decisions from the heart while I think with William he's someone who thinks from the mind which is probably because he's trained to do so.
@@Kashish4Eijaz I've just realised that I repeated some stuff that I had already said in my original comment ( sorry about that).....I only just re read the whole thing, but I really should have done that before I commented again. It certainly is personal choice, but I think Harry being the younger one also played a part.William will have been influenced due to being a future king.
For god sake let it go. She has been dead over 20 years. Earl Spencer will never give up. Earl Spencer wouldn’t let Diana live at Althorpe when she had no where to go. So he isn’t such an angel of mercy is he. She begged him and he said no. Brotherly love. I don’t think so.
I remember watching it on tv here in Australia and my heart just completely broke for those poor boys having to do that when their world had just fallen apart.
Perhaps though, it was extremely successful as a “marketing ploy” or branding exercise or whatever you might call it. I’m still much more interested in those boys now than I ever was before, and way more interested in them than any other royals. It’s like after seeing that done to them, I’ve wanted to see them grow up and find happiness and change the system they’re stuck in. They touched my heart that day and I now truly care about them, and I suspect without that day it’d be more of an oh yeah, whatever type attitude towards them.
Walking behind the coffin of a loved one is for the living in order to deal with grief and they were old enough to it, I think to have kept them from doing so would have been just more loss on top of loss. Even young children should witness a close death, to exclude them is not doing any kind of favor for them.
Is he the guy who made that hurtful speech at her funeral and then it came out that he had ditched his wife who was Ill to take up with another woman.
Yes one and the same
Earl Spencer who during his divorce proceedings in South Africa, was forced to admit, that he had had eight affairs during his marrage ,and has done very well out of his sisters death, with his Diana museum.
Quite a hypocrite isn’t he ?
I was very impressed with the Princes to do that. In my culture children are not considered weak and fragile. Since we were the original people we worked together as civilized people.
It was torture for the public to watch, and hell for the princes
I totally agree she would not have had , or appreciate knowing that they had her boys walking behind her dead body .
You don’t know that we can only assume. In New Zealand sons carry the coffins of loved ones, this really is a family decision, not ours!
The boys walking behind Diana,s coffin ! I was crying so hard too! Plus the mummy card n her coffin from Harry !
I'd forgotten that card.
She was also Williams mother too not just Harry.. William was devastated also.
Plus the mummy card on her coffin from William and Harry
That really gutted me when I saw that.
I think the RF was freaked at the potential picture of Spenser walking alone, or the two Charleses, Spenser and Windsor. So they added Princes Phillip, William and Harry. It would not have been so weird for them if their father and uncle were not so obviously furious with each other!
I wish the boys hadn’t walked.....it just made it more grueling and heartbreaking. There was no point in it. And I agree. She wouldn’t have wanted them to go through that.
Princess Diana Was the Queen 👑 of People's Hearts 💕 and she will Forever be Remembered in Our Hearts 💞 R. I. P 😢
The courtiers have always been lying over many years. They are one of the reasons why Prince Harry moved. They are closer to the Queen than her own. That’s why retired workers in the palace like Dickie Arbiter behave as if they are related to the Queen. They whisper & gossip as well. It’s no life actually in that palace. Arthur Edwards is not a worker but their favourite photographer. But he has warNed up so much with Charles & his mistress turned wife Camilla that they even allowed him to lay a wreath at the cenotaph of remembrance on Remembrance Day this year & Prince Harry who put his life on line for Britain in Afghanistan was refused a laying of wreath. Horrible & strange. Isn’t it?
The Courtiers are treacherous. They will ruin the life one one they do not like. Diana was convinced they were spying on her when she moved to Kensington Palace post her divorce. She was convinced Charles and court would set her up.
They are dangerous and sneaky.
No Harry gave up his privileges when he moved to America.
In India, we burn instead of bury. In my culture, there is a ceremony that literally translates to "plucking flowers". I had never been to this ceremony and didn't know what happened.
The first death that rattled me was my grandma's. My parents just said let's go do this ceremony. Didn't ask any questions as I was still under shock and went with them. Apparently, when they burn the person, they do not completely burn. Some pieces of bones are left. So in this ceremony you actually go to the place the next morning where you burned them and pick the pieces of bones that were left. Collect the ashes and the bones and then in another ceremony you put these in a river.
I was horrified when I came to know what I was expected to do. It was hurting me but something inside me didn't want to stop. But looking back I am glad I was there for her. She was a second mother to me. She was scared of dying. And I am glad I could be there with her at every step till the end.
And despite knowing this...people criticise Harry for calling out the institution and saying they do lie to get their way.
Life is cruel. She would of been a wonderful grandmother. And so proud of her son's!!!!!!
It's sad if the boys were forced. If that was my mother going to her grave, I would want to take that last walk with her.
I always thought it was such a dignified walk..the ultimate homage meant for a Queen of hearts!
True
Prince Philip.s sister was eight months pregnant .when she and her baby died .he was also very young ,when he walked in her funeral procession .
JFK was buried on his son's third birthday but the little boy still stepped forward to salute his father. Why is Harry at almost 13 such a coddled simp?
I found this to be very terrible to do to those two young boys and Im happy this wouldnt happen today. Princess Diana Will forever be missed!
I just understood it was Charles or Phillip. Phillip said to the boys if you’ll walk I’ll walk with you they agreed and the rest is history
It was their grandfather Prince Philip who said it..
I think it was honoring her. But than again that's just my opinion
That image is always haunting. I can barley stand to look at those two boys walking behind Diana’s coffin. If it was Charles Spencer’s worst half hour, it would have been worse for William & Harry
I just read the Diana: Her True Story and he actually offered to let her stay in the family house for 3 weeks before he told Diana he couldn’t handle the paparazzi showing up, thus telling her stay elsewhere.
Most of the time, Diana kept to herself about her problems because she didn’t want to burden her family. And when they actually knew what was going on after all those years, they were all on her side.
I love Diana and I get the resentment towards her family either way but at least provide some context to not confuse other people that is trying to get to know her story for the first time.
Diana would not have wanted her sons to walk behind her coffin. It’s cruel
Princess Diana was a better example of what royalty should be. Queen Elizabeth should be ashamed of herself. Shame on her and Charles!
MAI L O V E S BB The woman who abandoned her duties to frolics with Muslim oil barons and did everything possible to be the focus of press attention is a better example of royalty than a calm, reserved, revered matriarch who has always tried to ensure order and stability for her family, country and commonwealth?
You people are truly absurd.
Get the fuck outta here.
Emily yeahh,
The story that she was assassinated came from the same man who was trying to maintain his HONOUR, (very important to a Muslim) after he and his son had made a series of disastrous decisions that left three people dead. Taqiyya (in the Quran) is the right of a Muslim person to tell a "righteous lie" to protect themselves. This is what Mohammed el Fayed did when he accused the male head of a Christian family, of murder.
King Edward "Longshanks" I, Hammer of the Scots, Lord of Wales and King of England She didn’t abandon her duties you idiot. She was divorced from Charles, taking on more charity work if her own choosing and falling in love with the surgeon then Dodi. As a single mother with sons at boarding school did you think she didn’t have the right to have a personal life?
just me Be careful, your ignorance is showing 😡
I think William today as he is older is proud of himself and would not want to change it
Let her be, may she rest in eternal peace! I wish all these former protection officers and private secretaries would stop writing books about her, feels like these men are violating what were relationships of trust and confidentiality.
He just needs to shut the hell up. Enough is enough of using her for attention
Whatever else ,I did , do and will, think of how very hard those times were for the prince's. And they can be respected for how kind their hearts are. Especially given they could have turned bitter and mean from how things were going in their lives. I respect them a. Great deal. And pray life is kinder to them from now on.
Who decided this? Prince Charles should be ashamed of himself. I can’t imagine how as adults these two men are going to resolve the legacy of their father. How does one do that to their children? What kind of character in a man does not stand up and say no to a traumatizing event such as this inflicted on his children?
It was actually Prince Phillip who insisted on the walk. Probably to try to regain the respect lost with the families initial lack of expected response to Diana*s death.
@@TheMimiSard No surprise, since the more German than English Philip had a part in murdering her.
Charles has no b lls.
💐😢💐 Agree. Princess Diana would never want her sons to suffer the cruelty of walking behind a coffin carrying their Mother's dead body.
I don’t get it what is wrong with being honourable and walking behind ur mother even at 12 yes!!
Some of the public behave like they owned Princess Diana.....no doubt ,she was a great humanitarian, but she also had a family who she cared deeply about ............maybe even much more than her public image.. .....they must stop criticizing her family, & snooping into their personal lives. .........looking back on what her majesty has done together with the parliament, ever since she has ascended the throne......is great......from the devastation of world war 2......to the progress Great Britain has done to this day is pretty impressive........better days are round the corner......they've got to be patient .... ..
Its nice to walk with someone behind the coffin
They killed her. God sees & he will bring justice and equity
I totally agree they hated her guts and wore so jealous of her being more popular than them she was the peoples princess that's why they took her out there is a cover up of what happend to her RIP Diana!!!
@pauline Mc No. She was murdered.
@pauline Mc GOD WILL MAKE JUST
I remember at the time how they sold it as such a brave, dignified move to honor their mother and the boys wanted to do it. Now all these years later its heartbreaking knowing those poor vulnerable boys were used as part of a publicity stunt 😔 so sad even a quarter century later! How awful those boys had to keep a brave face and not lose it for over an hour as they had to walk along while crowds wailed and screamed their mother's name
I think it’s cruel to have her sons walk behind her coffin. Just look at them.devistated.
The problem with the royals in general. You criticise and are the biggest hypocrites.🙄🙄
It is a show for the public but cruel thing for the kids
In LATAM this is actually a pretty common tradition to walk behind the coffin of your beloved. Of course, I cannot compared it to millions of people watching you, that must be one of the hardest things ever.
But, my point is that in some countries is not weird to do this.
In Romania as well. The deceased is also held in his home with an open casket for 3 days for religious services and mourning. A member of the family has to be with the deceased at all times until the time comes for him to be buried. Yes, I believe it is rather macabre but that's how it has been for hundreds of years and people just go with it no question asked. It is believed to be a great show of respect for the dead. Is has a very important religious significance. During Covid lockdown, open caskets held at home were prohibited and people were literally rioting because of this.
@@theresamay5699 yes, something similar here. We call it “vela al muerto”. So I get why many might be shocked, but for others (like us) is actually normal.
Still, in front of millions I understand it was hard for them.
I would walk behind important people in my life caskets without giving it a thought. Great respect for that person.
Dear BBC News,
When I think of the beloved, and very sadly belated Princess Diana.
This won't make any sense to anyone regarding my own personal memory of my life.
But here it goes, I'll brave the truth (crying typing this).. 😭
1980's "War on Drugs".
I wish *so* bad to say this to someone over there. 😖
But online it's impossible to explain. 😔
Survivor:
April 1990- November 1990
Location of facility: Plymouth, Michigan
My heart is so heavy with too much memory. 😫
She visited one of them.
Thank you for reading.
Love from Michigan USA 💖
Peace ✌
I see it as a sign of respect.
well,today Camilla,the former mistress,gets to enjoy the happy family-occasions in the royal family. Her step-children Harry and William seems to have no trouble with it.
I think they just grin and bear it I think it bothers them. She’s the reason their parents fought and divorced in front of them.
@@abutterfly7975 ikr....lots of families these days are blended. Not everyone likes or gets along with each other, but learning to accept the presence of certain people is something some are better at than others. It certainly makes holidays and family events much more tolerable.
In reality, Diana had two children and ex husband, it was really nothing to do with her brother, any part of funeral.
Why didn’t he ask them if they wanted to do it?
I really wish he would shut up. If he had allowed Princess Diana to stay at Althorp she may not have been in Paris and still be with us today!! But he made sure she was buried there he can make money for the estate now keep him going. He should give that money to charity Diana would have liked that !!
The thing is that, the royals have to plan things to service them public. It shows that they are respecting Diana’s memories and they had to walk together. Royals are human but they have privileges given by the public. A lot of things the royals have to do work for the country. That is why to become a public figure, you have to do certain things you may not want to do but as a duty to public before their needs. The public mourn for Diana. They came all the way to see her and send the message for her. They came from all over the world, paid for expenses to come over to see her funeral. The royals have responsibility to give gratitude and take part of something to thank the public. The public may understand if they don’t want to. The queen has to ceremonially to do for the country by showing up and take part. When her father died, she cannot mourn for several days or etc. She has little time to mourn. That is why the public is easily to misunderstand that the royals don’t care about them or keep private. It is something what William said- you need to have tough front. Royalty is a privilege but they have to give back. It shows their sacrifice. They don’t want to, but they sacrifice.
YES she did change them, forever.
is princess diana's brother catholic? why did he make the sign of the cross? i thought they were Anglicans?
I think he is and his mother Frances converted to Catholicism in her later years.
nenabunena do Anglicans not do that? I thought all Christian religions did?
Only catholic Christians do that.
@@scinformation7229 what?
I dont think so?
@@fido4450 anglicans and catholics are not that far off.i was raised catholic but having assisted to anglicans services i realized that they were not dissimilar.anglican is the offsprout of catolishim since Henry the eight decided to take over (just to marry as he pleased) .b4 that the country was catholic.
This is not even bad I carried the coffin . :(
The Royal family treated Diana horribly but I don't find it bizarre that her sons walked behind her in this procession ... if they really really didn't want to do it of course they should not have been forced to ... but it wasn't bizarre or cruel to ask them to do that ... it's called respecting and honoring your mother ... stirring up resentment in a time of grief is what I find bizarre ... and by the way, where was Earl Spencer when Diana needed him? .... he's no better than the Royals
I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of that vile man's mouth. He hurt Diana badly towards the end and they never did make up. He's a hypocrite.
Nice brother..... wouldn’t give her shelter in her time of need when alive but upfront and center postmortem!
There is nothing wrong with them walking behind, we do it in my culture too, who did you want to walk behind her? Strangers? It's their mother! I wouldn't mind if my kid walked behind infact walk with me, people walk with their parents or loved ones coffin all the time
It was painful to watch it at the time.
The lovely brother. He was soooooo a help for diana.
Why wouldn't Prince William and Prince Harry want to be involved with walking behind their mother, Diana's casket? Anyone who loved their mother, would beg to walk behind her, as a tribute and honor to her.
They were young. Little more than boys, mourning their mom but having every eye upon them, not allowed to grieve privately and hearing all those strangers weeping and wailing , when it was *their* mother who had died.
@S Robin , They could cry if they wanted to. Nobody told them they couldn't. Most loved ones want to be with their deceased family member, every step of the way, until the burial.
Can we just move on it has been nearly 25 years and let Diana rest in peace, nothing said today is going to change anything. Maybe if the BBC hadn't tricked Diana into that interview this wouldn't have happened. DEFUND THE BBC.
Of the men walking behind Diana's coffin, Charles Spencer looked the most regal by a mile. And I note that he was the only one who had the respect to make the sign of the cross.
Walking behind our mothers coffin is the last gesture of love, sacrifice and never ending bond....this is what we do in the Philippines, we dont see it as horrifying for the young and grief stricken mourning children. It is part of our rich culture.
Thanks to Diana, Prince Charles have handsome sons.
Prince Charles has some do of it
They ought not to have been made to walk. This cruel monarchy must be dismantled permanently.
Charles and his consort mustn't be made to sit on any thrones, it is an insult to the people.
I think it was a tribute to Diana to have her loved ones follow her in the procession. Anyone remember John Kennedy Jr at his father's funeral procession. He looked maybe 4 and he stepped out and saluted his father.
That was brief and a child that young doesn't fully comprehend death.
This was a long walk, for older children. Horrible.
the day of his fathers funeral was his 3rd birthday
Poor boys.
The monarchy will do anything to make themselves look good. Including putting those boots through something so horrible that affected them for life!
I think it was good for them to do it no matter how young. Although nothing on this scale we walked behind funeral procession and as a child I was told to go up to open caskets and say goodbye. We are too soft on the youth. Someone in there 20s is called a kid.
Too.much is being shielded from kids and their childhood is being extended, instead of guiding them through life's inevitable sorrows. Effective coping skills are necessary for all of us to continue to function properly as adults and in society.
Right or wrong doesn't come into it. The wishes of the children are what mattered. If they truly did not want to do it, I am so sorry for them. 😪😪
yes. And, this is where.. the elder's knowledge and wisdom comes in, sometimes. For encouragement to do a hard thing.. for future self. I do tend to think with healing,..,. Harry would see the great thing he did.. at such a young age. Harry is still hurting... deeply. Which is why he is saying and doing the things he is.
@@keetahbrough He's getting so much hate from people, but Harry is a victim here. I wonder if he ever got proper psychological help. Sadly he fell into the grasp of a master manipulator who is using him for fame. I hope God protects him and she doesn't destroy him.
That was and will always be the darkest of days in our history . Miss you Diana 💔🌹💖💝🌺
It’s still sad 😞
They want all the perks and privileges of royal life. So they have to play the game.
Who says those boys wanted those things?? They were born into it and had no choice, fool!
@@A2D4 piss off.
💐😢💐 Rest in peace beautiful Princess Diana, the people's princess. 👑💖💞💕💖
I taught it wasn't right to be put in the public eye it made come to tears. At that young age to be walking behind the coffin of your mother.
We ask governments in all countries to unite the bridge pillars as high as one or two meters so that if a car hits a bridge support, it can still slide not as badly as a car crashes into a bridge pillar so that an accident hitting a pillar like what happened to Princess Diana does not happen again
..... Well SAID!
I was 28 when I lost my Father, and I remember the anguish I felt, seeing his coffin. So to have expected 2 children, grieving for their beloved Mother, to walk for 30 minutes behind a coffin, often seemed very, very wrong to me.
RIP Diana 💕 Queen of our Hearts
#️⃣ 25 years on
Oh, but duty before humanity.