Just ten days before her tragic death, Princess Diana let slip a rare, almost whispered confession during a moment suspended far from public view. It was a confession that spoke neither of scandal nor of crowns, but of an intimate, visceral regret connected to her two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.
A confession shared away from the spotlight
In the summer of 1997, Diana Spencer took a brief escape to Greece with one of her closest friends, Rosa Monckton. The setting was peaceful, almost timeless. Yet as their conversations unfolded, a sensitive subject resurfaced: the interview she had given two years earlier to the program Panorama.
With disarming honesty, Diana confided that she regretted agreeing to that interview. Not because of what she had said about herself, but because of the impact it might have had on her sons. According to Monckton, Diana believed that this public exposure had hurt William and Harry, who were then just 15 and 12 years old. It was a mother’s worry—simple and universal—that stood in stark contrast to the global scale of the event.