noise.”
Diana’s favorite phrase at tucking-in time: “Who loves you most?”
In the matter of her sons’ nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who Diana felt was getting far too close to her sons
and
her husband, Diana said, “I am the boys’ mother, thank you very much.”
“I am only too aware of the temptation of avoiding harsh reality, not just for myself but for my own children, too. Am I doing them a favor if I hide suffering and unpleasantness from them until the last possible minute? The last minute which I choose for them may be too late. I can only face them with a choice based on what I know. The rest is up to them.”
Talking to nurses at Marlow Hospital, where Prince William was taken after a classmate accidentally fractured his skull with a golf club: “It was a nasty wound which needed twenty-four stitches, but at least he’s fine now, sitting up in bed at the Palace. I’m very relieved.”
“Only when the baby [Harry] is a lot older will he realize how lucky he is not being the eldest. The second child will never have the same sort ofpressures or problems that poor William will always have to put up with.”
“Prince William and Prince Harry can be little devils sometimes. But when they are, they get a whack where they can feel it. It’s tiring work looking after children. I know because I have to look after my two boys and by Sunday I’m a stretcher case. But I love being with children and I miss them when they are not beside me.”
During a visit with a young woman dying of cancer, the woman’s mother told Diana that her son had pierced his navel. “God,” Diana said, “if William ever did that, my mother-in-law would hit the roof.”
On William: “He opens doors for women and calls men ‘sir.’”
At a children’s hospital in Surrey, she said, “William and Harry had lots of games for Christmas. I spent ages trying to work out how to play them by reading the instructions. But I found the instructions harder than the game. I’m as thick as a plank.”
On William’s first day of school: “Well, I was [sad] because it’s opening another chapter in my life, and certainly William’s. But he’s ready for it. He’s a very independent child. He’s surrounded by a tremendous amount of grown-ups, so his conversation’s very forthright. He was so organized that day that he chose his shorts and shirt, and it’s best to let him do that if you want him to smile at the cameras…. He was just so excited by it all, his first day of school, and there was a tremendous spirit of conversation. He was trying to get it all out. He just adored the children. He’s very much an organizer which might be helpful in the future years; he really loved it. William’s a typical three-year-old, enthusiastic about things. He’s not at all shy, but very polite, extraordinarily enough, whereperhaps Harry is quiet and just watches; he’s certainly a different character.”
Comedian Joan Rivers remembers the day she met Diana. William had just gone off to Eton, and she asked Diana whether she’d redecorated his room yet. Diana replied: “I don’t know whether to make it a sauna or a gym.”
“Sometimes [William] sounds like a thirty-year-old.”
“I want to bring them up with security. I hug my children to death and get into bed with them at night. I always feed them love and affection; it’s so important.”
On William: “He’s a deep thinker.”
“Charles and I have talked about how difficult their lives are going to be. We decided together to tell them everything before they read it or someone told them about it.”
She told
Majesty
magazine’s editor in chief, Ingrid Seward: “I have no wish to upset what is essentially part of William’s inheritance, whether he likes it or not.”
Her assessment of her sons in 1992: “William is a typical Gemini—very sensitive and emotional. Harry is a happy-go-lucky character who takes things in his stride. Harry is most at ease
Diana’s favorite phrase at tucking-in time: “Who loves you most?”
In the matter of her sons’ nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, who Diana felt was getting far too close to her sons
and
her husband, Diana said, “I am the boys’ mother, thank you very much.”
“I am only too aware of the temptation of avoiding harsh reality, not just for myself but for my own children, too. Am I doing them a favor if I hide suffering and unpleasantness from them until the last possible minute? The last minute which I choose for them may be too late. I can only face them with a choice based on what I know. The rest is up to them.”
Talking to nurses at Marlow Hospital, where Prince William was taken after a classmate accidentally fractured his skull with a golf club: “It was a nasty wound which needed twenty-four stitches, but at least he’s fine now, sitting up in bed at the Palace. I’m very relieved.”
“Only when the baby [Harry] is a lot older will he realize how lucky he is not being the eldest. The second child will never have the same sort ofpressures or problems that poor William will always have to put up with.”
“Prince William and Prince Harry can be little devils sometimes. But when they are, they get a whack where they can feel it. It’s tiring work looking after children. I know because I have to look after my two boys and by Sunday I’m a stretcher case. But I love being with children and I miss them when they are not beside me.”
During a visit with a young woman dying of cancer, the woman’s mother told Diana that her son had pierced his navel. “God,” Diana said, “if William ever did that, my mother-in-law would hit the roof.”
On William: “He opens doors for women and calls men ‘sir.’”
At a children’s hospital in Surrey, she said, “William and Harry had lots of games for Christmas. I spent ages trying to work out how to play them by reading the instructions. But I found the instructions harder than the game. I’m as thick as a plank.”
On William’s first day of school: “Well, I was [sad] because it’s opening another chapter in my life, and certainly William’s. But he’s ready for it. He’s a very independent child. He’s surrounded by a tremendous amount of grown-ups, so his conversation’s very forthright. He was so organized that day that he chose his shorts and shirt, and it’s best to let him do that if you want him to smile at the cameras…. He was just so excited by it all, his first day of school, and there was a tremendous spirit of conversation. He was trying to get it all out. He just adored the children. He’s very much an organizer which might be helpful in the future years; he really loved it. William’s a typical three-year-old, enthusiastic about things. He’s not at all shy, but very polite, extraordinarily enough, whereperhaps Harry is quiet and just watches; he’s certainly a different character.”
Comedian Joan Rivers remembers the day she met Diana. William had just gone off to Eton, and she asked Diana whether she’d redecorated his room yet. Diana replied: “I don’t know whether to make it a sauna or a gym.”
“Sometimes [William] sounds like a thirty-year-old.”
“I want to bring them up with security. I hug my children to death and get into bed with them at night. I always feed them love and affection; it’s so important.”
On William: “He’s a deep thinker.”
“Charles and I have talked about how difficult their lives are going to be. We decided together to tell them everything before they read it or someone told them about it.”
She told
Majesty
magazine’s editor in chief, Ingrid Seward: “I have no wish to upset what is essentially part of William’s inheritance, whether he likes it or not.”
Her assessment of her sons in 1992: “William is a typical Gemini—very sensitive and emotional. Harry is a happy-go-lucky character who takes things in his stride. Harry is most at ease
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