What Princess Diana ‘Always Said’ About Prince William and Prince Harry — and Why It Hurts Now

“Diana always used to say she had two boys for a reason — the younger would be there to support the older in the lonely task as future king,” Diana’s biographer Andrew Morton tells PEOPLE in this week’s exclusive cover story.
“There is no doubt Diana would have tried to act as a peacemaker between them,” says Morton, whose latest book, Winston and the Windsors, is out in October. “If she had been around, they would have worked things out in a different way.”
Twenty-eight years after Princess Diana’s death, William and Harry remain devoted to their mother — yet their fractured relationship shows no signs of healing.

The Prince of Wales, 43, and Duke of Sussex, 40, grew up sharing a royal life and experience only they can understand, weathering the scandalous divorce of their parents, Diana and the future King Charles, and enduring the unbearable pain of losing their mother after a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997, when they were 15 and 12.
But now, they’re worlds apart.