i think it was evident to everybody that they were incredibly close. he s mentioned on a number of occasions that she was never far from his mind. when you re going through these sorts of rites of passage where you re growing up and you don t have that incredibly important figure in your life, it must be incredibly difficult because you think oh, i wish my mum was here for that. rites of passage that were not easy given the difficulty of growing up in a broken home. he went through the pain of the divorce. he then went through the agony of his mother s death, and it must have had an incredibly profound effect on the way he then wanted to conduct his own relationships. reporter: despite diana s best efforts, her sons grew up in the same type of contentious home that she did. diana was just 7, half william s age, when her family was also shattered by a bitter divorce and nasty custody battle. so this is the room where diana was born? yes, this is where diana was born.
with his mother? i think it was evident to everybody that they were incredibly close. he s mentioned on a number of occasions that she was never far from his mind. when you re going through these sorts of rites of passage where you re growing up and you don t have that incredibly important figure in your life, it must be incredibly difficult because you think oh, i wish my mum was here for that. rites of passage that were not easy given the difficulty of growing up in a broken home. he went through the pain of the divorce. he then went through the agony of his mother s death, and it must have had an incredibly profound effect on the way he then wanted to conduct his own relationships. reporter: despite diana s best efforts, her sons grew up in the same type of contentious home that she did. diana was just 7, half william s age, when her family was also shattered by a bitter divorce and nasty custody battle. so this is the room where diana was born? yes, this is wher
for that. rites of passage that were not easy given the difficulty of growing up in a broken home. he went through the pain of the divorce. he then went through the agony of his mother s death, and it must have had an incredibly profound effect on the way he then wanted to conduct his own relationships. reporter: despite diana s best efforts, her sons grew up in the same type of contentious home that she did. diana was just 7, half william s age, when her family was also shattered by a bitter divorce and nasty custody battle. so this is the room where diana was born? yes, this is where diana was born. reporter: mary clark was diana s nanny. she said i will never, ever marry unless i m really in love. because if you are not in love you re going to get divorced and i never intend to be divorced. she never had a happy centered home life. i think she spent all of her adult life searching for that. reporter: christopher anderson, who s written several books about t
tragedy. trying to get away from the paparazzi. trying to learn from lessons of the past and looking forward to seeing what the future holds. reporter: will this time be different? april 29th, 2011, westminster abbey, the location of the much anticipated wedding of prince william and catherine middleton. ironically, it was this abbey where his mother, princess diana, was laid to rest in 1997. and in the years between that memorial and this celebration, the legacy of diana and the tragedy of her life were critical in prince william s journey to the altar. i think she s probably never far from his mind. i think he thinks about her every day. jules knight says he s been friends with prince william for more than a decade. did he give any inklings about the relationship that he had with his mother? i think it was evident to everybody that they were incredibly close. he s mentioned on a number of occasions that she was never far from his mind. when you re going through
reporter: all haunted by memories of a fairy tale turned tragedy. trying to get away from the paparazzi. trying to learn from lessons of the past and looking forward to seeing what the future holds. reporter: will this time be different? april 29th, 2011, westminster abbey, the location of the much anticipated wedding of prince william and catherine middleton. ironically, it was this abbey where his mother, princess diana, was laid to rest in 1997. and in the years between that memorial and this celebration, the legacy of diana and the tragedy of her life were critical in prince william s journey to the altar. i think she s probably never far from his mind. i think he thinks about her every day. jules knight says he s been friends with prince william for more than a decade. did he give any inklings about the relationship that he had with his mother? i think it was evident to everybody that they were incredibly close. he s mentioned on a number of occasions that