As long as she was around, Diana wanted her sons to be 1,000% sure they were loved, but she also didn’t want them to have any illusions about her life — or life in general.
“When I grow up, I want to be a policeman and take care of you, Mom,” a young William is said to have told her, and Harry quickly countered, “Oh no, I can’t. I have to become one. king.”
Diana explained that she changed her approach to raising William, born second to the throne, “in a subtle way. People don’t know about it, but I do. I won’t. never rip out their cage, the monarchy, because when I think my mother-in-law has been doing it for 40 years, who am I to change it like that? . He didn’t hide upstairs with the tutor.”
In fact, Diana cleverly raised William to the throne, saying, “If I could write my own screenplay, I would say that I hope that my husband will go, go with his wife. his wife and arrange that and leave me and the children with Welsh names until William takes the throne. And I’ll be behind them all the way and I can do this job much better on my own. ; I don’t feel trapped.”
