Prince Harry’s return to the United Kingdom is partly motivated by plans to produce his own television film or documentary about his late mother, Princess Diana.
According to royal expert, Richard Kay, the Duke of Sussex, has begun approaching Princess Diana’s old friends to take part in a film about his mother,.
Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the princess’s death in Paris, with a string of events and tributes already planned.
Speaking on Palace Confidential, Kay told host Luke Blackall: ‘Diana has dominated the thinking of both William and Harry for the last ten years.
‘When they made, nine years ago, those documentaries to mark the 20th anniversary of their mother’s death, that was the last time they were really in step together.
‘I am told that one of the reasons Harry’s here is to make a television film, his own film, about his mother. I know he has been reaching out to his friends and others who knew her, asking them to contribute. That’s going to occupy a lot of his headspace over the next 12 months.
‘Of course, it throws up that old canard. People always link Harry to Diana, but she was the mother of two boys. William is just as much his mother’s son as Harry is, and Harry has tried to claim the Diana legacy for himself, to William’s intense frustration.
‘He does not bang on about his mother all the time, though he has at several points. This issue of trying to use Diana, the Spencer brand, the Spencer name, to divide himself away from the House of Windsor, I think is something we’re going to see even more of.
‘Let’s not forget who Harry spent time with when he was here in July, it was Diana’s family at Althorp.’
Harry, Meghan and their children Archie and Lilibet stayed with the Spencers at the family’s Althorp estate during their visit to Britain in July.
