{"id":20884,"date":"2026-03-17T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20884"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:43:11","slug":"diana-reportedly-wanted-harry-to-be-king-over-william-due-to-1-never-been-revealed-reason-when-his-mother-was-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20884","title":{"rendered":"Diana Reportedly Wanted Harry to Be King Over William Due to 1 Never-Been-Revealed Reason: \u2018When His Mother Was Still Alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"321\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Princess Diana<\/span><\/span> died nearly 30 years ago, so we can\u2019t know her views on today\u2019s royal family. But she was a devoted mother to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Prince William<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Prince Harry<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"582\">According to royal writer <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Richard Kay<\/span><\/span>, Diana once believed William was shy and unsure about becoming king. Because of that, she considered the possibility that Harry might take the role instead, even nicknaming him \u201cGood King Harry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"584\" data-end=\"753\">Today, that idea seems unlikely\u2014William has grown confident in his role as Prince of Wales, while Harry lives in the U.S., and the two brothers are reportedly estranged.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"875\">Kay also noted that William has matured into his position and is expected to modernize the monarchy to keep it relevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princess Diana died nearly 30 years ago, so we can\u2019t know her views on today\u2019s royal family. But she was a devoted mother to Prince William and Prince Harry. According to royal writer Richard Kay, Diana once believed William was shy and unsure about becoming king. Because of that, she considered the possibility that Harry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20884\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Diana Reportedly Wanted Harry to Be King Over William Due to 1 Never-Been-Revealed Reason: \u2018When His Mother Was Still Alive!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20887,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20884\/revisions\/20887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}