By Katherine Tinsley
5:48pm PDT, Sep 2, 2025
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Prince Harry reflected on his last conversation with Princess Diana in the 2017 documentary Diana, Our Mother. While neither Harry nor his older brother, Prince William, could have predicted her untimely death nearly three decades ago in August 1997, the two siblings couldn’t help but wish their final moments with their late mother had played out differently…
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In the documentary, Prince Harry opened up about his super-short final phone call with Princess Diana. “I can’t really, necessarily, remember what I said. But all I do remember is probably, you know, regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was,” the Duke of Sussex recalled. “And if I’d known that was the last time I was going to speak to my mother — the things I would have said to her.”
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Prince William, who is more private than Prince Harry, also reflected on what it was like finding out Princess Diana had died. “I remember just feeling completely numb, disoriented, dizzy,” the Prince of Wales shared. “You feel very, very confused. And you keep asking yourself, ‘Why me?’ All the time, ‘Why? What have I done? Why? Why has this happened to us?”
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Prince Harry and Prince William walked behind Princess Diana’s coffin at her funeral when they were 12 and 15, respectively. “My mother had just died and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands watching me while millions more did on television,” Harry said in the documentary. “I don’t think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances. I don’t think it would happen today.”
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Prince William also shared how destabilizing losing Princess Diana at a young age was for him. “There’s nothing like it in the world. There really isn’t. It’s like an earthquake has just run through the house and through your life and everything,” William said. “Your mind is completely split. And it took me a while for it to actually sink in.”