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Princess Diana wears a pink floral dress and pink hat to hold Prince William on August 4, 1982 at his royal christening.<\/p>\n Princess Diana wears a pink floral dress and pink hat to hold Prince William on August 4, 1982 at his royal christening.<\/p>\n
While Prince William’s christening<\/a> on August 4, 1982, may have looked like a regal affair<\/a> to outsiders, Princess Diana<\/a> wasn’t a fan of the official royal event<\/a>. In fact, during an interview with her biographer, the former Princess of Wales<\/a> revealed why the milestone<\/a> was so “ghastly<\/a>,” and made worse by other members of the Royal Family<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Andrew Morton’s book, Diana: Her True Story<\/a>\u2014In Her Own Words, the princess recalled attending Prince William’s christening. Having welcomed her first child on June 21, 1982, Princess Diana was experiencing postpartum depression<\/a>, and she felt as though her husband’s family didn’t support her.<\/p>\n “Nobody asked me when it was suitable for William,” Diana said of the date and time of the christening (via the Daily Mail<\/a>). “11 a.m. couldn’t have been worse. Endless pictures of The Queen, Queen Mother, Charles, and William. I was excluded totally that day.”<\/p>\n Diana further explained, “I felt desperate because I had literally just given birth<\/a>. William was only 6 weeks old and it was all decided around me. Hence the ghastly pictures.” Reflecting on the most difficult aspects of the day, Diana told Morton, “I wasn’t very well and I just blubbed my eyes out. William started crying too. Well, he just sensed that I wasn’t exactly hunky dory.”<\/p>\n Further conflict arose when it came to giving William his moniker. “Charles wanted to call his first son Arthur and his second Albert, after Queen Victoria<\/a>‘s consort,” Morton revealed in his biography of Diana. “William and Harry<\/a> were Diana’s choices<\/a> while her husband’s preferences were used in their children’s middle names.”<\/p>\n Sadly, it sounds as though William’s christening wasn’t the favorable moment it should have been for his mother Diana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Diana wears a pink floral dress and pink hat to hold Prince William on August 4, 1982…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1500,7709,7714,7713,4044,5686,5681,533,12,5683,5682,5684,2832,532,2831,7710,519,5685,7711,7712,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-316171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-catherine","11":"tag-catherine-middleton","12":"tag-daily-news","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-inkl","15":"tag-kate-middleton","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-news-app","18":"tag-news-headlines","19":"tag-news-today","20":"tag-prince-of-wales","21":"tag-prince-william","22":"tag-princess-of-wales","23":"tag-royal-families","24":"tag-royal-family","25":"tag-today-news","26":"tag-uk-royal-family","27":"tag-william","28":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114968388245285730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dsUWUENd8fwQGjmZMEhX3k.jpg\")
“I was excluded totally that day.” (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7dkErZVWfRMTNPRFYNfWsj.jpg\")
“William started crying too.” (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n