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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
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Prince William Is Steering Princess Kate Into Princess Diana’s Footsteps, Former Royal Butler Says

Prince William and Kate Middleton attend an event.

Back in 2010—the year that the Prince and Princess of Wales (then Prince William and Kate Middleton) got engaged and the year before they married—William and Prince Harry appeared in an ITV interview, where Harry said, poignantly, “Every day—I know I do and I’m sure William does as well—whatever we do, wherever we are, and whoever we’re with, I particularly always wonder what she’d think, what she’d be doing if she was with us now,” he said of Princess Diana, the mother they lost as a result of a car accident on August 31, 1997. “If she’d be sitting here having a laugh, whether she’d be in the background sticking her tongue out, or whether she’d be playing football with the children. That’s what keeps us going every day—that thought of what would she be like if she was around today.”

Diana died when William was 15 years old, and Harry just 12. (Image credit: Getty)
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