--- title: Prince William on Mourning Princess Diana description: The British royal opened up about dealing with the loss of Princess Diana while visiting a center for children also suffering a loss. canonical: https://time.com/4632875/prince-william-on-mourning-princess-diana/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-12T17:12:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:07.232Z og:title: Prince William Discusses Losing His Mother to Comfort Kids og:description: The English royal shared advice on dealing with the loss of Princess Diana og:url: https://time.com/4632875/prince-william-on-mourning-princess-diana/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6ffe0faa4607c3ca/6988b54e196cf4ef0703e762/william-and-kate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5240 og:image:height: 2948 og:image:alt: The Duke & Duchess Of Cambridge Visit A Child Bereavement UK Centre og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince William Discusses Losing His Mother to Comfort Kids twitter:description: The English royal shared advice on dealing with the loss of Princess Diana twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6ffe0faa4607c3ca/6988b54e196cf4ef0703e762/william-and-kate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Prince William Opens Up About Princess Diana to Comfort Grieving Children > Sponsored content. 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WPA Pool—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 12, 2017 5:12 PM UTC [Prince William](http://time.com/4627279/prince-william-duchess-kate-holiday-card/?iid=sr-link2)—one half of England’s royal couple along with [Kate Middleton](http://motto.time.com/4625718/kate-middleton-35-birthday-best-outfits/?iid=sr-link1)—paid a visit to a charity facility dedicated to children dealing with grief on Wednesday in Stratford, England, where he sympathized with kids and shared some of his own experience of loss after the death of his mother Princess Diana nearly twenty years ago. “You know I lost my mummy when I was very young too. I was \[15\] and my brother was 12,” he told one young girl at the Child Bereavement UK Centre event, [according to ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/prince-william-consoles-grieving-girl-lost-mummy/story?id=44717152). “So we lost our mummy when we were young as well.” The royal added that communication was key in dealing with feelings. “It’s very important to talk about it. Very, very important,” he said. They also participated in a memory exercise. In the past, William’s brother Prince Harry [has mentioned that he wished](http://time.com/4421319/prince-harry-diana-death-mother/?iid=sr-link1) he had been more communicative about grief himself. “You know, I really regret not ever talking about it,” he said in July. The royal brothers, it seems, are trying to teach a new generation to be a open about their emotions. \[[ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/prince-william-consoles-grieving-girl-lost-mummy/story?id=44717152)\] > [](https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/819200665230737409) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4632875/prince-william-on-mourning-princess-diana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4632875/prince-william-on-mourning-princess-diana/"},"headline":"Prince William Opens Up About Princess Diana to Comfort Grieving Children","datePublished":"2017-01-12T17:12:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:07.232Z","description":"\"It’s very important to talk about it.\"","url":"https://time.com/4632875/prince-william-on-mourning-princess-diana/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","royals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6ffe0faa4607c3ca/6988b54e196cf4ef0703e762/william-and-kate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6ffe0faa4607c3ca/6988b54e196cf4ef0703e762/william-and-kate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Duke & Duchess Of Cambridge Visit A Child Bereavement UK Centre","caption":"The Duke & Duchess Of Cambridge Visit A Child Bereavement UK Centre","creditText":"WPA Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4632875/prince-william-on-mourning-princess-diana/","name":"Prince William Opens Up About Princess Diana to Comfort Grieving Children"}}]}] ```