Prince Harry Doesn’t Think There Would Be a Rift With Prince William If Princess Diana Was Still Alive: ‘There Is No Way’

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Prince Harry thinks his relationship with brother Prince William would look a lot different if Princess Diana was still around.During an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, which aired on Tuesday, January 10, Harry, 38, addressed how the loss of his mother affected where he and William, 40, stand now.“We wouldn’t have got to this moment,” the Duke of Sussex shared while promoting his Spare memoir. “It’s impossible to say where we would be now — where those relationships would be now — but there is no way that the distance between my brother and I would be the same.”Harry noted that he has felt a deeper connection to his late mother since stepping back from the royal family.“I’ve said quite a lot recently in different interviews that I’ve really felt the presence of my mom, especially in the last couple of years,” he continued. “And I detail in the book my brother and I talking at her grave and how he felt as though she had been with him for a long period of time and helped set him up with life and that he felt she was now moving over to me.

And I have felt her more in the last two years than I have in the last 30.”The late Princess of Wales died at age 36 after sustaining injuries in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.

Harry, who was 12 when his mother passed away, reflected on the fact that he is now two years older than Diana when she died.“Well, she died at 36, and I was 36 when this all kicked off,” he explained on Tuesday, referring to his and wife Meghan Markle‘s move to California in an attempt to create distance between them and the British monarchy. “January of 2020 was when my wife and I basically said, ‘Enough, we can’t cope.