Topics: King Charles III, Prince Harry, Prince William, Princess Diana, Royal Family
The sad thing Prince William said after parents Princess Diana and King Charles divorced has been revealed.
The pair wedded 44 years ago on 29 July 1981, when Diana was aged 20 and Charles was 32.
750 million people in 74 countries tuned in to watch the televised event, where they saw Lady Diana opt out of using the word 'obey' in her vows.
Despite them being the most adored couple in the world, things would turn sour after the pair welcomed their sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.
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In the years that followed, Charles and Diana both made admissions about infidelity, and appeared in separate TV interviews to talk about their marriage and divorce.
And Harry and William's reactions to Charles and Diana divorcing were written in former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown's book, The Palace Papers.
According to Brown, after the couple’s TV interviews, Prince William allegedly said something very heartbreaking for his young age.
Aged only 15 at the time, the young prince was subjected to hearing all about his parents' wrongdoings during the marriage, such as King Charles stating he was 'forced' to marry Diana, all while having an affair with Camilla, who is now his Queen Consort.
But unlike what you’d expect a teenager to say amid all of this family drama, Brown claims Will said: "I hope you will both be happier now."
Brown claimed that William said the eight words 'with heartbreaking maturity, after both boys had shed their tears'.
According to Brown, it was Charles’ TV interview with Jonathan Dimbleby that hit the boys the hardest.
"They were heartsick at their father's admission...that he had been forced into marriage to Diana by Prince Philip, and that he had been unfaithful to Diana with Camilla," Brown claimed in her book.
The interview meant that the boys were forced into witnessing a ‘deluge of dirty laundry’, which left the Queen worried about how it would impact William.
"The Queen told a palace source that she was worried [Prince William] was going to have a breakdown," Brown alleged.
After Princess Diana's infamous Panorama interview, where she talked about there being ‘three’ people in her marriage, Queen Elizabeth reportedly asked them to divorce and officially split.
The mother-of-two passed away alongside partner Dodi Fayed on 31 August 1997, just one year after her divorce, following a car chase involving paparazzi in Paris.
Reports determined her vehicle crashed in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, where Fayed was also killed in the collision and died on impact while Diana passed away in hospital a short time later.
