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It’s a day in history that will never be forgotten.
At just 15 and 12 years old, Prince William and Prince Harry walked behind their mother Princess Diana’s coffin at her funeral in 1997.
But the young princes didn’t walk alone.
Not only did their father, Prince Charles, and their uncle, Diana’s brother Earl Spencer join them – their grandfather Prince Philip walked too.
For years, many questioned why Prince Philip would choose to walk behind the coffin, as he was said to have had an “intense dislike” for Diana.
But now, in royal author Ingrid Seward’s latest book My Husband and I: The Inside Story Of The Royal Marriage, the reason behind Prince Philip’s baffling decision has finally been explained.
Originally, Diana’s brother Earl Spencer wanted to be the only person to walk behind Diana’s coffin.

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This is interesting, as I have read that Prince Philip liked and respected Diana, and took her part in the marital difficulties.
I was thinking that too. You wonder if the whole "The Royal Family despised Diana" was a bit of a beat up to make it a little more acceptable that Charles went back to Camilla, making out he was not as bad as we think.
The press will present the perspective that suits them on the day (so long as it doesn't make Saint Diana look bad, of course).
I had heard for years he tried to help Diana, recently published letters between the pair suggest the same (though he had asked if some of the blame belonged to her behaviour in the marriage as well), that there was a mutual respect.