• After Princess Diana passed away, Prince William was concerned about maintaining a brave façade.
• The Duke of Cambridge, who was only a teenager when his mother passed away, made the decision that the tragedy would not “break him.”

William said in the 2017 ITV documentary “Diana, Our Mother”: “It will either make you or break you. And rather than letting it destroy me, I wanted it to forge me. She should be pleased with the person I’ve become, I thought.

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“I didn’t want her worried or her legacy to be, you know, that William and/or Harry were completely and utterly devastated by it.”

He said: “People wanted to grab us, to touch us.

“They were shouting, wailing, literally wailing at us, throwing flowers, and yelling, sobbing, breaking down, people fainted, collapsed. It was a very alien environment.

“I couldn’t understand why everyone wanted to cry as loud as they did and show such emotion as they did when they didn’t really know our mother.

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“I did feel a bit protective at times about that. You didn’t even know her – why and how are you so upset? Now looking back, I have learnt to understand what it was she gave the world and what she gave a lot of people,” he established.