Prince William, who was furious with mum Diana after the BBC interview

The Prince William has had an unfinished business with the for years Bbc for the very famous interview than his mother Lady Diana released in 1995 to the reporter Martin Bashirin which he recounted all the details of his wedding “a little too crowded” in front of millions of viewers. According to the Duke of Cambridge that interview was obtained by deception and an independent investigation “to restore the truth” is still underway.

Because of that interview, frictions also arose with Netflixwhich in the fifth season of The Crownavailable from the end of November, to Lady D’s televised confessions dedicated an entire episodeignoring the William’s explicit request never to broadcast “that public outburst again extorted by dishonest methods“.

But behind spasmodic attention that Prince William – even more than his father Charles – dedicates to that interview, there is not only the desire to respect of his mother’s memory. There is above all a 13-year-old boy who had watched the interview with Eton, his eyes filled with tears.

He reveals it Tina Brown in the book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor-The Truth and Turmoilout April 26, explaining that that initiative by Lady Di caused a lot of tension between mother and child. “William, who had watched the interview in his director’s office in Eton, revealed to a classmate that as soon as he saw his mother’s face appear on the screen he had a thrill of terror»Writes Brown. “And when the director Andrew Gailey he went back to his study to take William and his friend back to their room, he found the prince sunk in the sofa, his eyes red from tears“.

A few hours later Gaily himself answered the phone to Diana herself, but when she tried to pass it to William, the boy refused to answer her. “He was furious,” he had revealed to Daily Mail in 2020 the historian Robert Lacey“He couldn’t tolerate his mother talking so badly about his father, that he even mentioned it James Hewittso when the following Saturday (the interview had aired on Monday) he returned to Kensington Palace he let it out: he cried, screamed and when his mother tried to hug him to calm him he pushed her away. Diana became convinced that her son would never forgive her“.

However, it seems that the next day, the young William is immediately sorry offering his mother a bundle of flowersbut Diana, thanking him, felt that ‘the damage was done irremediable“. And talking to the psychologist about him, Simone Simmonsa few days later, he asked himself: “What have I done to my children?”certain that with William something had broken forever.

But William didn’t have time to hold a grudge against his mother: unfortunately he lost it too soon. Two years after that infamous interview, the car Diana was traveling in crashed into a tunnel pillar in Paris, leaving orphans him and his brother Harry. Growing up, William worked out and understood so many things that when he was little he was naturally unable to understand. But the ache and the shame of that child in front of the TV, there quarrel with mom and remorse tried must have engraved deeply in his soul enough to make it want to erase forever those images and words from collective memory. In order not to renew every time the feelings felt on that Monday evening in 1995 in Eton.