"Remembering My Mother Every Day"... UK Prince Releases Unpublished Photo of Princess Diana

Prince William, Eldest Son of King Charles III, Remembers His Mother

Died in Car Accident in Paris, France in 1997

British Royal Family Excludes Andrew from Mother's Day Photos

Prince William, the eldest son of King Charles III of the United Kingdom, has released an unpublished photo of the late Princess Diana.

Prince William of the United Kingdom and Lady Diana in 1984. Kensington Palace Instagram

According to Yonhap News Agency, on March 15 (local time), Prince William posted a photo on Kensington Palace's social media account in celebration of the UK's Mother's Day. Prince William wrote, "Today, and every day, I remember my mother. Thinking of everyone who is remembering loved ones today. Happy Mother’s Day."

According to the BBC, this photo was taken in 1984 at the royal family’s private estate in Highgrove, Gloucestershire, showing two-year-old Prince William with his mother, Princess Diana. It was a privately kept family photo and has been made public for the first time now.

Princess Diana died in a car accident in Paris, France in 1997 at the age of 36. It was a little over a year after her divorce from Prince Charles, and at the time, William and his brother Prince Harry were 15 and 12 years old, respectively. Her death garnered immense global attention, and an estimated 2.5 billion people watched her televised funeral.

Since Princess Diana’s death, Prince William has avoided the public eye and focused on official duties such as addressing the climate crisis and homelessness. Appearances at local events and other public engagements have mainly been carried out by Crown Princess Kate Middleton. However, following King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis in 2024, the activities of Prince William, who is first in line to the throne, have attracted significant attention.

Crown Prince William and Crown Princess Kate Middleton attending a local event. Photo by AP Yonhap News

Meanwhile, on the same day, Buckingham Palace’s official account also posted a Mother’s Day message accompanied by three photos. The photos include one from 1953 showing the late Queen Elizabeth II sitting on a bench at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with her eldest son, now King Charles III, and her eldest daughter, Princess Anne; another of Queen Elizabeth II walking with her mother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, as they pose together; and one of Queen Camilla with her own mother.

Notably, there was no appearance of Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Queen Elizabeth II’s second son, in the photos posted by Buckingham Palace. He was stripped of his prince title last year due to allegations of involvement in the case of American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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