The first time I cried was at the funeral on the island…and only since then, maybe once," Harry said in the documentary. Diana breathes a quiet sigh, already looking forward to the reception, where she can’t wait to tuck into all the good food and sweets.

Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around August 15, 2022. Harry, now 39, wrote in his memoir Spare, released early this year, that he was woken up by his father and informed of the crash. The narrative gets off to a good start with Anderson’s nostalgic memories of her childhood in coastal Vancouver, raised by very young, very wild, and not very competent parents.Diana’s invited to celebrate Charles’s thirty-second birthday—on Friday, November 14—at Sandringham, the royal family’s country estate. 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. As he recently told Next Avenue, "I have a couple of new collaborations that I'm doing, which are really cool. And my mother used to play all sorts of songs to kind of while away the anxiety of going back to school”, the prince said for an episode of Apple’s Time to Walk.

It's all just rehashed info from what is already out there, then arranged into bite-sized, easy-to-swallow pieces. Like Patterson’s memoirs, I found myself easily drawn into this one quickly, the pages turning fast, and my full attention and immersion was sealed quickly. Encounters with a variety of hardworking dancers, drag queens, and pimps, plus an account of the complexities of a first love with a drug-addled hustler, fill out the memoir with personality and candor. In the years following Princess Diana’s fatal car crash on August 31, 1997, her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, remained notably silent about her tragic death, refusing to make any sort of official statement about their grief.

In a 2017 interview with Newsweek, Harry explained how difficult it was for him to handle the news of his mother's death. There is one photograph of Diana hugging Harry, and I think it tells you everything about their relationship,” they said. This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book. Gazing across the hall now, the Queen Mother feels compelled to compliment the father of the bride, Lord Spencer, on young Lady Diana’s warmth and grace.