How young Prince William wanted to be a policeman to 'protect' his mother Diana

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The controversy around the collapse of the royal marriage between Princess Diana and Prince Charles was extraordinary and was the centre of the media for some time, but it was heightened to another level with Andrew Morton’s tell-all book, Diana: Her True Story.The book - published in 1992 - covered Charles and Diana's loveless marriage, Charles’s alleged infidelity, and the princess’s struggles with bulimia, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.

And heartbreakingly, when the marriage finally ended in 1996, Prince William told his mother he wanted to become a policeman to protect her in case she was stripped of her royal title. “He once told her he wanted to be a policeman so that he could protect her,” says royal expert Robert Jobson. “When the divorce was finalised and it emerged that the princess would be stripped of her royal title, it was William who threw his arms around her and exclaimed, ‘Don’t worry, Mummy.

I’ll give it back to you one day, when I’m king.’” Nothing could have prepared William - who has turned 40 - and Prince Harry for the devastation of their mother's death, which ripped through the family the following year.

He and Harry - who has reached out to a psychic since his mother's death - were on holiday at Balmoral with their father Charles when they learned of Diana’s passing.