Diana, William and Harry

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Princess Diana is often remembered for many things, from being the People's Princess to her devotion to humanitarian work to her iconic sense of fashion. But being a mother to her two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, is perhaps what she was best known for. Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for an easy job-but when he tries to protect an American woman, nothing is what it seems in a web of money, betrayal, and murder . . . This gets my blood boiling when an author wants to dupe his audience. James Patterson name in books is a brand, nothing else. When it comes to non-fiction. He tries to come up in innovative ways to promote his brand. Not for the love of his craft. As much as William found a home with the Middletons, it would take eight years, and one brief breakup with Kate in 2007, before he asked her to marry him. William did not agree to be interviewed for Junor’s book (although he gave permission for friends, staff and many of the charities he is patron of to share their views), so she can only speculate about his commitment issues. Part of it, she believes, was a question he had to resolve for himself: could he remain faithful to one woman after the betrayals that scarred his upbringing? She also admitted to “playing amateur psychologist.” He lost his nanny, he lost the trustworthy Sandy Henney when she was forced to resign as press secretary for a mistake not of her making. His mother’s death was the “ultimate abandonment,” said Junor. “I think he was possibly testing Kate to see if she would also abandon him. I think that’s why he waited eight years before finally asking her to marry him.” She did not. During their breakup, she maintained her dignity and discretion, while looking stunning as she stepped out on the town with friends. William soon realized what he had lost. While much has been made of the pair’s fractured relationship, the two seemed at ease during the event, warmly greeting guests and sharing jokes with the small group of attendees.

I became breathless, I needed oxygen. I went as red as a guardsman’s tunic. I stuttered, “Er, Your Royal Highness, in as much as I can see under your suit, they seem, um…perfect to me. I wouldn’t worry.” Royal fans will devour this well-paced biography that gives new insight into the House of Windsor. You’ll tear through it by sundown and walk away thinking about the Princess of Wales and her two sons with new perspective .” – Men’s Journal I should have realized when I started this book I would be vastly disappointed. I do not like James Patterson's writing. There, I said it. Some of you may want to tar and feather me, but if you are still reading, you must have a similar opinion of his writing as I. Today, on what would have been our mother's 60th birthday, we remember her love, strength and character — qualities that made her a force for good around the world, changing countless lives for the better," William and Harry said in a joint statement. In the first half, the boys are barely mentioned, and in the second half Diana is barely mentioned. I thought this would be a look at the relationship and special bond between mother and sons and the influence she had over their characters both when they were young and still yet today. I do think they each thought highly and fondly of the other but I learned that from other sources throughout the years, and all the coverage of all that is Diana. I did not get that sense from this book., which ultimately is a disappointing rehash of previous reports with very, very little new information.The marriage was already in trouble by the time of Harry’s arrival in 1984, some 27 months after William’s birth. Charles grew frustrated and depressed as he failed to win the respect and support of his young wife. Diana had wild mood swings: carefree and compassionate one moment, brooding, insecure and sarcastic the next. Much of it, Junor believes, was rooted in Diana’s difficult childhood. Her home life was marked with unhappiness and there were frequent violent arguments between her parents. Her mother fled the marriage for another man and lost custody of the children when Diana was six. “In [Diana’s] mind, the matter was simple,” Junor writes. “Her mother didn’t want her, therefore she must be worthless.” Harry had travelled from his home in California while Meghan remained in the US with their two children, Archie, two, and newborn Lilibet, whose middle name, Diana, honours the late princess. Sometimes I’d like a time machine…” Diana says as William and Harry grow up, never imagining they’d have less than a lifetime together. Even after she’s gone, her sons follow their mother’s lead—and her heart. As the years pass and William and Harry grow into adulthood and form families of their own, they carry on Diana’s name, her likeness, and her incomparable spirit.

A return to UK soil will likely be trying for Harry who recently disclosed in his AppleTV+ series that London was previously a mental health “trigger” for him following his mother’s death. He talked of how Diana, who died in 1997 in a car crash in Paris after the breakdown of her marriage to Charles, now the king, would have been heartbroken, too, at the collapse of what he called the “pact” between him and William never to turn the British press against each other.analysis A landmark case opens the door for thousands of sexual abuse survivors — and lawyers are already firing off letters Perhaps understandably, the William who arrived at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland was cautious, insecure and a bit bereft. He hid under the bill of a baseball cap, was unduly quiet in lectures, often wrote his essays at the local police station, away from prying eyes, and steered clear of the American girls who threw themselves at his feet. He gravitated to familiar faces in his residence, among them Kate Middleton, one of the “least pushy girls he met in that first year,” Junor writes, quoting a friend of the couple. She, too, was away from her family and comfort zone. Like him, she had volunteered in Chile during her gap year with the same charitable group, though at different times. The Patterson juggernaut continues to expand into the nonfiction world with this account of the royal family. Alex Cross races against time as a series of crimes stuns Washington, D. C.—and he might be facing his most brilliant enemy yet. Now, that doesn’t mean there were things that I struggled with. There were at least two things I must mention. The first is that Patterson’s writing style favors short chapters, and in this case, it came across at times as if each chapter were a newspaper story or article, and all of them added up together equaled a book. The transitions between chapters bounced around, causing the book to read in many ways like a timeline rather than a cohesive novel, with interconnected chapters that told a unified story. I saw that this bothered some readers, but I was able to deal with it.

The Sunken Garden was created in 1908 at the instigation of King Edward VII, in an area of the palace gardens previously occupied by potting sheds and greenhouses. The layout of the garden takes inspiration from the 17th century Dutch style Pond Garden at Hampton Court Palace. Graham Dillamore, HRP deputy head of gardens and estates, said in the same statement that Diana “regularly admired the changing floral displays in the Sunken Garden” and often stopped to talk with the gardeners who cared for it. The statue – which was originally commissioned in 2017 on the 20th anniversary of her death – was revealed at an afternoon ceremony on what would have been Diana’s 60th birthday. It was the first time William and Harry had been together since the funeral of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in April and will be seen as a healing moment for the brothers after a turbulent past few years.

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But they also spoke of Prince William and Harry and how they hope the statue would ignite a will for the brothers to move on from their recent differences, sparked in part by Prince Harry's bombshell Oprah interview. Another spoke of how she wished she could simply "bang their heads together" and make them see sense. Cinematic ... Full of intriguing anecdotes and sharp character observations, this is an entertaining and persuasive study of the royal family."— Publishers Weekly Her sons put on a united front at Thursday’s event, entering the garden in conversation together before making their way over to greet their aunts and uncle – their mother’s siblings Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Jane Fellowes and Earl Spencer. Also in attendance was the statue’s sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley, garden designer Pip Morrison as well as members of the statue committee. Prince Harry believes his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, would be “heartbroken” at the rift that has developed between him and his older brother William, the heir to the crown.

With one son destined to be King and one needing to find his own way, she taught them lessons about royal tradition and also real life. 'William and Harry will be properly prepared,' Diana once promised. 'I am making sure of this.' The statue was first commissioned by Prince William and Prince Harry to mark 20 years since the death of their mother Diana, the Princess of Wales Diana on a ski vacation with her two sons, William (left) and Harry (right) in 1993. Jayne Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images Royal fans will devour this well-paced biography that gives new insight into the House of Windsor. You’ll tear through it by sundown and walk away thinking about the Princess of Wales and her two sons with new perspective .”– Men’s JournalHarry and Meghan gave up their royal roles and titles and moved across the Atlantic, initially to Canada and then later moving to Los Angeles, after falling out with, chiefly, William and Charles over what Harry said was secret stoking by their press teams of media hostility to Meghan. The portrait and style of dress was based on the final period of her life as she gained confidence in her role as an ambassador for humanitarian causes and aims to convey her character and compassion,” the palace statement added.