{"id":161532,"date":"2026-03-11T15:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=161532"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:53:16","slug":"princess-diana-was-preparing-prince-harry-to-be-king-according-to-her-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/princess-diana-was-preparing-prince-harry-to-be-king-according-to-her-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana was preparing Prince Harry to be king, according to her friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports revealed <strong>Princess Diana<\/strong> was preparing her second son, <strong>Prince Harry<\/strong>, to be king, according to her friend, who shared all her feelings in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>On March 11, the princess&#8217; confidante and friend, the veteran royal writer <strong>Richard Kay<\/strong>, attended the Daily Mail&#8217;s Palace Confidential podcast, where he talked about the late royal&#8217;s feelings on <strong>Prince William<\/strong>&#8216;s shyness and reticent reaction about his future royal role.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Certainly, when his mother was still alive, she would tell me that she never really thought that William wanted the &#8216;top job,&#8217; as she called it. The idea that he would one day wear the crown.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;She, in her mind, was preparing the way for the possibility that it would be Harry who succeeded his father,&#8221;<\/strong> he said and continued revealing that <strong>&#8220;she had a nickname for Harry: she used to call him &#8216;Good King Harry&#8217;\u2014a throwback to medieval days.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-161536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Diana-was-preparing-Prince-Harry-for-the-throne-with-this-nickname.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Diana-was-preparing-Prince-Harry-for-the-throne-with-this-nickname.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Diana-was-preparing-Prince-Harry-for-the-throne-with-this-nickname-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Diana-was-preparing-Prince-Harry-for-the-throne-with-this-nickname-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Diana-was-preparing-Prince-Harry-for-the-throne-with-this-nickname-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Diana-was-preparing-Prince-Harry-for-the-throne-with-this-nickname-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Diana-was-preparing-Prince-Harry-for-the-throne-with-this-nickname-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Diana-was-preparing-Prince-Harry-for-the-throne-with-this-nickname-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Princess-Diana-was-preparing-Prince-Harry-for-the-throne-with-this-nickname-860x573.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Kay made evident that the former wife of <strong>King Charles III<\/strong> was dedicated to preparing her two children for their future royal life, and he concluded by saying, <strong><em>&#8220;Things haven\u2019t worked out like that, and I think we are all rather grateful that they haven\u2019t.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent reports revealed Princess Diana was preparing her second son, Prince Harry, to be king, according to her friend, who shared all her feelings in a recent interview. On March 11, the princess&#8217; confidante and friend, the veteran royal writer Richard Kay, attended the Daily Mail&#8217;s Palace Confidential podcast, where he talked about the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":161538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1795],"tags":[1627,1686],"class_list":{"0":"post-161532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-royal-family","9":"tag-prince-harry","10":"tag-princess-diana"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}