Now two photographs are circulating on the net, taken decades later, but, at first glance, in many ways similar. You can see in the first photo Little boys William and Harry at Lady Diana’s funeral in 1997., they walk behind their mother’s coffin with their uncle Earl Spencer and father, Prince Charles. The second is in our day: again Harry and William, again the procession, this time to the death of the queen. Many have wondered if the two brothers did not connect these two circumstances, although different, and now confirmation has come from Prince William. “Yesterday’s walk was difficult,” he said, “it brought back some memories…”.
Ahead of the funeral of Elizabeth II on Monday, members of the royal family meet hundreds of thousands of people across the country every day who want to pay their respects to the queen. William and Kate on Friday went to Sandringham House in Norfolk, the residence where the Queen traditionally spent the Christmas holidays.. They read several memorial postcards left outside the gates of the estate and talked to the people gathered there. Among those they met, one woman, Jane Wells of Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, said she told the prince how proud his mother would be of him. “William was talking about how difficult the procession was because he reminded me memories of mother’s funeralWells told BBC.
It has been 25 years since the death of Princess Diana, but this image still resonates in the media and in the public imagination: it is hard to forget the two very young princes in the procession at the coffin of their mother. At the same time, William and Harry have always been very open to remembering this moment. William spoke of “pain that is unlike any other pain.” and Harry said that today no child would be required to do what was required of him that day. “I feel his presence in almost everything I do,” said the Duke of Sussex a few months ago, and this is all the more true in these days of mourning and loss.
Source: Elle