Princess Diana saw Harry as the wingman for William in Wills role as future king

Posted by Mittie Cheatwood on Friday, May 24, 2024

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We can play the “what would Princess Diana have thought about this or that” game all day long. The truth of the matter is that everything would be so different if Diana had survived the car crash in 1997, or if she had never been in the car (or in Paris) in the first place. I tend to believe her sons would not be the men they are today – for better and for worse – nor would Harry and William have chosen the wives they chose, had Diana still been around. There would have been a completely different timeline, reality and royal vibe. But sure, if William had still ended up married to Kate and Harry had still married Meghan, and the brothers had some kind of crazy rift, Diana would be pissed. So says Andrew Morton:

Princess Diana wanted nothing but for her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, to be best friends and sources of support for one another as they faced the pressures of royal life. And now that the two brothers are embroiled in a “fierce and bitter” argument, one of her close confidants says there’s “no question” she would have been heartbroken by the rift.

“Diana said to me quite clearly on several occasions that she saw Harry as the wingman for William in what ultimately would be a very solitary, somber job as future king,” shared Andrew Morton on Friday’s episode of the U.K. talk show Loose Women.

“She would have been very upset at the way these two have split apart,” added Morton, who clandestinely worked with the princess on the 1992 biography Diana: Her True Story.

Morton believes Diana would have taken an active role in repairing the fractures in the brothers’ relationship: “Knowing [the brothers’] personalities intimately, as a mother would do, she would be working out, perhaps with Prince Charles by her side, a way to reconcile them.”

[From People]

Eh. Maybe Diana saw Harry as a “wingman” or whatever. Maybe she did say that to Morton, who knows. She said to many people that Harry would make a better king temperamentally though, and one of her nicknames for her younger son was “Good King Harry.” Her nickname for William was “Basher” because he was always throwing tantrums and bashing things. I think she picked up on the fact that William’s temperament was always going to be an issue and that’s why William “needed” Harry. But in that scenario, she never expected Harry to forgo having a life beyond being William’s wingman. Plus, in her last years, she and William were growing apart. He apparently screamed at her for doing the Martin Bashir interview, and just recently William called his mother gullible and a paranoid liar. My guess? Diana would be upset about her sons’ rift, but mostly she would be so frustrated that William turned out so much like his father.

From Left to Right:- HRH PRINCESS OF WALES (HRH Princess Diana): HRH PRINCE HARRY: HRH PRINCE WILLIAM: HRH PRINCE OF WALES (HRH Prince Charles). (Seen on Prince William's first day at Eton College) COMPULSORY CREDIT: UPPA/Photoshot Photo URK 010

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