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Prince William\u2019s childhood vow to Princess Diana revealed<\/p>\n
Prince William reportedly made a heartbreaking promise to his mother, Princess Diana, one year before her tragic death.<\/p>\n
The Prince of Wales was only 14 years old when his mother, Princess Diana, had to drop “Her Royal Highness” title following her divorce from then-Prince Charles in 1996.<\/p>\n
Because of the shift, Diana had to perform formal greeting called curtsy to her ex-husband, her sons, and other senior members of the royal family.<\/p>\n
During this emotional moment, William promised his mom, “Don\u2019t worry, Mummy, I will give it back to you one day when I am king.”<\/p>\n
For the unversed, a curtsy is a traditional way for women or girls to greet someone by slightly bending their knees and lowering their head.<\/p>\n
Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell, revealed the promise by the teenage Wliiam left the princess with loads of emotions, via Radaronline.com.<\/p>\n
“Diana was incredibly touched by what William said \u2013 she told friends it was one of the kindest things he\u2019d ever done for her,” a source told the outlet.<\/p>\n
“Even as a teenager, William was remarkably empathetic,” they continued. “He could see how much the loss of her title hurt her, and he just wanted to take that pain away in the only way he knew how.”<\/p>\n
However, a year after the divorce, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.<\/p>\n
A second palace source said, “It\u2019s heartbreaking when you think about it. Diana\u2019s loss was the defining wound of William\u2019s life, and that small promise became symbolic of everything he couldn\u2019t protect her from.”<\/p>\n
“The tragedy is that he\u2019ll never get to fulfill it \u2014 no matter what kind of king he becomes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William\u2019s childhood vow to Princess Diana revealed Prince William reportedly made a heartbreaking promise to his mother,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-508000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115392090851130329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508000","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=508000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}