Lady Diana had made a prophecy when William and Harry were still very young: her words could dramatically come true.
As Carlo discovered the hard way, the life of an heir to the throne of England is very hard, since childhood. The reason is that expectations on the heir are very high, so he has been coming since he was a child loaded with many responsibilities and especially subjected to a very strict education.
Obviously not everyone is born with the strength of character necessary to play such an important role, but also with the right nature to be a good monarch. To give a very painful example, Queen Elizabeth’s uncle decided to abdicate because he did not want to give up marrying the woman he loved: a sign that he did not intend to sacrifice all of himself to the Crown, as is required of a monarch.
According to the news, Lady Diana was not at all sure that William had the right qualities to reign. Probably the mother of the future King was convinced of this because William, as a child, was not at all enthusiastic about having to sit on the throne sooner or later and it seems that he often cried at the mere thought.
It seems like once Harryto console his brother, said that he would reign in William’s place if the older brother didn’t feel like it. Diana was thrilled, so much so that he gave his youngest son the affectionate nickname of “Good King Harry.”
Diana’s prophecy could come true: the drama
Obviously Diana had not foreseen the dramatic developments in her children’s lives, nor the fact that Harry would decide to leave the Royal Family and shirk his public duties. She couldn’t even have predicted it Charles and Kate’s illness, which left the Crown of England terribly weakened.
As the journalist Antonio Capranica underlined, the illness of the King and Princess of Wales opens up terrible scenarios. If both Charles and Kate were to succumb to the disease, in fact, there is a great probability that William may decide to renounce the throne, distraught over the loss of the mother of his children.
At that point, the heir to the throne would be George and, after him, the honor would belong to Charlotte and Louis. William’s children are too young anyway: George would need a regent until reaching the age of majority.
According to the line of succession to the British throne, Harry would have the right to ascend the throne as Regent Monarch in the name of his nephew George. Diana’s prophecy, therefore, could come true, even if at the cost of a lot of pain for the Royal Family.
