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Princess Diana shocked the nation when she sat down for a revealing interview with journalist Martin Bashir on BBC Panorama in 1995. During the interview, the Princess of Wales spoke of the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles.
In the Daily Mail, royal author Robert Lacey said the implications of the interview “hit young teenager William at a particularly vulnerable time.”
He claimed Princess Diana had ignored the emotional effect the revelations would have on her eldest son.
Mr Lacey said Princess Diana only thought about how this might impact her sons after the interview is over.
He wrote: “According to Simone Simmons, the princess’s confidante and faith healer, it took a phone call from house master William’s Eton, Dr. Andrew Gailey, to entice Diana.
“Gailey had read the pre-advertisement in the newspapers and phoned her to tell her that it was ‘imperative’, in her opinion, that she come and explain things to William, face to face.
According to Mr Lacey, Princess Diana told Prince William: “I did an interview for television.
“It will air tomorrow night and I didn’t want it to surprise you.”
When the interview aired, Prince William sat alone to watch his mother reveal Prince Charles’ affairs to him.
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“And he knew his friends would laugh at him, which they did.
“He felt like she was making fun of herself – and him.
Prince Harry, however, reportedly did not watch the interview when it was first broadcast on TV.
Mr Lacey said it was unclear how Prince Harry subsequently reacted to the revelations from his mother’s interview.
The royal author went on to explain how Prince William found himself in a “fragile place” when the Panorama interview was published.
Mr Lacey wrote: “It was only his first few weeks at Eton, right after undergoing the famous college ‘club welcome’.”
Prince William was “furious” with his mother for mentioning her affair with James Hewitt and speaking badly about his father, according to Ms Simmons.
According to Mr Lacey, Princess Diana told Ms Simmons: “[Prince William] started screaming and crying and when she tried to put her arms around him he pushed her away.
The Duke of Cambridge then apologized to Princess Diana, but she felt “irreparable damage” had been done, Mr Lacey wrote.
The author added: “It was the moment when William seems to have experienced that decisive act of detachment from the parent which marks the advent of adulthood. The iron had entered his soul.
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