Prince William: Only now am I coming to terms with my mother’s death

The Duke of Cambridge has spoken of his regret that his mother never lived to see his children as details emerged of the panicked response in the royal family to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Prince William said in a magazine interview that it had taken him almost the full 20 years since her death to come to terms with the events. He also spoke of the difficulty in processing his own grief when it was shared by so many.

Referring to the forthcoming twentieth anniversary of his mother’s death, on August 31, he said: “I am in a better place about it than I have been for a long time, where I can talk about her more openly, talk about her more…