With Diana's life and presence still vivid in our hearts and minds, her son Prince William is quickly growing up.
A striking young man--looking so very much like his mother--he has shown enormous sensitivity and strength of character, particularly in the exceedingly difficult years since his mother's tragic death.
"Prince William is blessed--some might say cursed--with Princess Diana's dazzling looks. Tall, blond and handsome, he might have been a 21st-century heartthrob even if he weren't a living reflection of the most famous face in the world. On Wednesday, his 18th birthday, William comes into his mother's unintended legacy--international celebrity at its most daunting." Audrey Woods, AP
Prince William in Canada
"We have a king-in-waiting who is well-mannered, charming and seems eminently ready to embark on the next stage of his life." historian Andrew Roberts
One of the final photographs taken of the Princess and her sons, on vacation in St. Tropez. Strawberry blond-haired Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, walks between his mother and brother.
With his uncle Earl Charles Spencer, fifteen-year-old Prince William bravely follows his mother's coffin toward Westminster Abbey.
Saturday, September 6, 1997
Historian David Cannadine once called Diana "the most spectacular royal celebrity and media star there ever has been....For years to come there will be many people who will find it impossible to comtemplate [William's] slim, long-legged body, his thatch of red-fair hair, and his bashful, downcast, through-the-eyelashes look, without seeing in them the image of his mother. In a very real sense she will live on through him."
