The butler disclosed the young Prince William’s earnest commitment to his mother at the time. “When she was distraught over HRH’s death, she told me how he sat with her one night and wrapped his arms around her and said, ‘Don’t worry, Mummy.’ When I become King, I will return it to you.’ “In his book, A Royal Duty, Burrell wrote: According to Burrell, the conversation left the Princess in tears.

Princess Diana, however, will never see her son rise to the kingdom because she died in a car accident in 1997, just a year after the divorce was finalized.

Prince William was devastated when he lost his mother at a young age, and it took him years to come to terms with it.

“…I’d gladly talk about my mental health difficulties if I had them. I suppose the closest I came was the trauma I went through when my mother died, the magnitude of the sadness, and I still haven’t dealt with it as effectively as I could have over the years “GQ quoted Prince William as saying.

Prince William remarked, “It took me years to one up about her,” when asked how long it took him to one up about her “I’m in a better position about it than I’ve been in a long time, where I can talk about her more openly, honestly, and remember her better, as well as publicly talk about her. It took me nearly 20 years to reach to that point.”