Princess Diana would be the ‘only person who could fix Harry and William’s rift’, expert claims 

Princess Diana would be the ‘only person who could fix Prince William and Prince Harry‘s rift’ as her sons ‘meant the world to her’, a royal expert has claimed.

Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond – who met with Diana several times before her death in 1997 – said the late royal was ‘so clearly proud’ of her two boys.

Speaking to Ok! magazine, the expert claimed Diana said the UK was ‘lucky’ to have William as a future King.

However, the expert said Diana worried about how Prince Harry would forge his own path in the Royal Family.

Jennie said: ‘Diana was an absolutely devoted mother and her sons meant the world to her.’ 

Princess Diana pictured with Prince William and Prince Harry on the Duke of Sussex’s first day at Eton college in 1995

Speaking on what would have been Diana’s birthday, Jennie said: ‘I’m sure her greatest wish would be to hug her boys again and find some way of resolving the rift between them. 

‘If anyone could sort things out, it would have been Diana.’

What’s more, the expert commented on the royal’s loving approach with her sons.

Princess Diana allegedly told the former royal correspondent that she ‘showered’ Harry and William with ‘love and cuddles’ because she hadn’t been shown much affection during her childhood. 

In his bombshell biography Spare, Prince Harry claimed his older brother physically attacked him when he was still living in Nottingham Cottage within the grounds of Kensington Palace.

William is said to have branded Meghan ‘difficult’, ‘rude’ and ‘abrasive’ and insisted he was trying to help his younger brother during a meeting about ‘the whole rolling catastrophe’ of their failing relationship and Harry’s rows with the Press. 

Harry accused his brother of ‘parroting the Press narrative’ about his American wife before a screaming match ensued, ending in a physical altercation, the book claims. He says he gave the heir to the throne a glass of water and said: ‘Willy, I can’t speak to you when you’re like this’.

Describing what he claims happened next, and insisting he was scared, the former soldier said: ‘He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. 

BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond said the late Princess was ‘so clearly proud’ of her two boys (pictured in 2018)

Pictured: Jennie Bond was the BBC’s royal correspondent for 14 years and met with Diana on several occasions 

‘He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out’. 

Elsewhere in the biography, Prince Harry also claimed his brother and Kate Middleton told him to wear a Nazi uniform costume to a fancy dress party they were all attending in 2005. 

Harry claims he was considering either the Nazi uniform or a pilot’s outfit to a ‘Native and Colonial’ themed event and called his brother and sister-in-law for their opinion. 

‘They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.’

The outfit became a huge scandal when Harry, then 20, was photographed wearing the Nazi regalia.

The story made global headlines after an image of Harry in the costume featured on the front page of The Sun newspaper.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle pictured in December 2022 – a month before the Duke of Sussex’s memoir was published

While promoting Spare in January, Prince Harry appeared to blame his family for the feud in an interview with The Telegraph. 

He said: ‘It was all so avoidable. But they just couldn’t help themselves.’

The Duke of Sussex added that he could not understand why it seemed ‘shocking and outrageous’ for him to tell what he said was the ‘truthful’ side of the story.

Harry also claimed he felt a ‘responsibility’ to reform the monarchy in the interests of his two young children.

He also described how therapy had helped him, but said he was unable to ‘get through’ to his family to agree with him.

He said: ‘That’s when I started trying to explain to them how some of their decisions and some of the things they were doing – or not doing – was going to reflect on them. Badly.

‘Especially across the global stage, especially across the Commonwealth, with relation to my now wife. And I couldn’t get through to them. And it wasn’t one or two people that I was trying to get through to.

‘It was a mindset. It was a culture, within a bubble within a bubble, that while I was there was unbreakable.’