Prince Harry and Prince William’s Sweetest Quotes About Mom Princess Diana Will Fill Your Heart With Joy

“All I want to do is make my mother incredibly proud,” Harry shared with People. “That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do.”

“We will do whatever we can to make sure she’s never forgotten, and carry on all of the special gifts, as such, that she had and that she portrayed while she was alive. I hope that a lot of my mother’s talents are shown in the work that I do,” the Duke of Sussex told Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts.

“Losing a close family member is one of the hardest experiences that anyone can ever endure. Never being able to say the word ‘Mummy’ again in your life sounds like a small thing. I too have felt —and still feel — the emptiness on such a day as Mother’s Day,” William once said in 2015 after he became patron of the Child Bereavement Charity.

“She was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. Behind the media glare, to us, two children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world,” Harry said in an emotional eulogy on the 10th anniversary of her death.

“To myself and William, she was just the best mother ever. She would just engulf you and squeeze you as tight as possible, and being as short as I was then, there was no escape. You were there for as long as she wanted to hold you. Even talking about it now, I can feel the hugs that she used to give us,” Prince Harry admitted in the Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy documentary.

“She was our mom. She still is our mom. And of course, as a son I would say this — she was the best mom in the world. She smothered us with love, that’s for sure,” Harry noted in the film.

“Behind closed doors she was a very loving, caring mother and an incredibly funny person. I think she lived a lot of her life, especially in private, through us and I think that childish fun element really came out when she was spending time with us,” Harry gushed about Diana in the documentary.

“I would like to have had her advice. I would love her to have met Catherine and to have seen the children grow up. It makes me sad that she won’t, that they will never know her,” Prince William admitted about his mom to British GQ in 2017.

“Every day, depending on what I’m doing, I wonder what it would be like if she was here, and what she would say, and how she would be making everybody else laugh. Who knows what the situation would be, what the world would be like, if she were still around,” Prince Harry told Good Morning Britain in 2016.

“I never realized quite how much of an impact she had. I applaud her for all her dedication and drive, and I think the infectious enthusiasm and all the energy she had really rubbed off on me for causes such as [AIDS research in Africa],” Prince William once said.