Princes’ William and Harry have invited Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall to the memorial service to mark the tenth anniversary of Diana’s death.
LONDON: In a move which will probably make their mother Diana, Princess of Wales, turn in her grave, Princes’ William and Harry have invited Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall to the memorial service to mark the tenth anniversary of Diana’s death.
The young Princes’ had witnessed first hand, the misery their mother went through due to their father, Prince Charles’ adulterous affair with Camilla. Diana had publicly blamed Camilla for the break-up of her marriage to Charles. “There are three of us in the marriage,” Diana had famously said of Camilla in a TV interview to journalist Martin Basheer just before her divorce.
However, over the last decade since Diana’s death, Charles has slowly made Camilla a non-negotiable part of his life finally culminating in the marriage over a year ago. William and Harry have also bonded with Camilla and whole-heartedly supported her marriage to their father. They have grown close to Camilla’s family — especially her children by her first marriage, Tom and Laura Parker Bowles — and even attended the funeral of Camilla’s father Major Bruce Shand.
Their invitation to Camilla to attend a ceremony so directly connected with their dead mother is an obvious attempt to put the sorrows of the past behind them.
The service will be held in London on 31 August next year and it is believed that the boys are keen that it be in a more ‘intimate’ venue rather than enormous St Paul’s Cathedral or Westminster Abbey.
All the members of the Royal family including the Queen and Prince Philip, with whom Diana shared a ‘not too cordial’ a relationship, have been invited. Diana’s own Spencer family including her brother Earl Spencer, who pointedly attacked the Windsors at her funeral are also expected to be there. “The service is going to include both sides of the family, our mother’s side and our father’s side — everyone is getting together,” explained Prince Harry.
The memorial service will be held on Diana’s death anniversary, while a charity concert at Wembley Stadium to celebrate their mother’s life is being organised by William and Harry for 1st July next year, when Diana would have turned 46.
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