{"id":615172,"date":"2026-09-29T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615172\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:14:09","slug":"princess-diana-prince-william-turns-down-30th-anniversary-requests-while-prince-harry-courts-mothers-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615172\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana: Prince William turns down 30th anniversary requests while Prince Harry courts mother\u2019s friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to the Telegraph, Prince Harry has spoken with some of Diana\u2019s friends and associates about potential anniversary projects.<\/p>\n
A source told the newspaper that the Duke of Sussex was \u201cstill considering the most meaningful way to honour her legacy during this important anniversary year\u201d. <\/p>\n
Multiple reports have suggested a documentary is among the options being explored, although no project has been formally announced.<\/p>\n
Page Six reported that Harry has also been seeking the involvement of Diana\u2019s brother, Charles Spencer. <\/p>\n
In Spencer\u2019s recent memoir Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, he wrote that he had declined numerous documentary requests about his sister, including one from a \u201cnephew\u201d, though he did not identify which nephew.<\/p>\n
The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince William, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry and the then-Prince of Wales following the coffin of Diana, Princess Of Wales. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
The renewed focus on Diana\u2019s life has also coincided with the release of Spencer\u2019s memoir, which contains a number of claims about events following Diana\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Diana died aged 36 after a car crash in Paris in August 1997.<\/p>\n
Spencer wrote that King Charles, formerly the Prince of Wales, \u201csounded giddily elated \u2013 like a lottery winner\u201d on the night Diana died three decades ago.<\/p>\n
That allegation was strongly disputed by Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n
William and Harry previously worked together on documentaries marking the 20th anniversary of Diana\u2019s death in 2017, including Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy. <\/p>\n
In the years since, relations between the brothers have deteriorated, with public appearances together becoming increasingly rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Telegraph, Prince Harry has spoken with some of Diana\u2019s friends and associates about potential anniversary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[202466,1443,534,4624,29816,31468,10632,634,62240,8668,107137,2794,6097,156,6043,593,1445,226,9859,4507,32739,6178,30510,2510,111,139,69,5202,4940,28821,3263,17182,9478,9871,199,1361,165,32951,6123,10744],"class_list":["post-615172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-30th","tag-about","tag-amid","tag-anniversary","tag-approaches","tag-brother","tag-courts","tag-death","tag-declined","tag-diana","tag-dianas","tag-documentaries","tag-down","tag-entertainment","tag-exploring","tag-film","tag-friends","tag-growing","tag-harry","tag-late","tag-marking","tag-mother","tag-mothers","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-part","tag-prince","tag-princess","tag-project","tag-reportedly","tag-requests","tag-speculation","tag-take","tag-that","tag-their","tag-turns","tag-while","tag-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}