British actress Kate Beckinsale shared she related to Prince Harry and Prince William, who lost their mom when they were young. Kate’s father, actor Richard Beckinsale, died when she was only five years old.
During an interview with Dax Shepard on his podcast, Armchair Expert, Kate Beckinsale shared how she relates to Prince Harry and Prince William, after losing their mom when they were young.
The Underworld actress shared she and her family weren’t following the Royal Family, but “it lives in you,” if you’re from England. She recalled: “I remember when their mother died, I was in New York, and seeing them in the context of other people sort of grieving for somebody they didn’t know … I thought, ‘Oh my God, I really know what that feels like.'”
Prince William was 15 years old, and Prince Harry was just 12, when Princess Diana died at age 36 in a car accident. The two brothers came together as they unveiled their mom’s statue on what would’ve been her 60th birthday.
Kate continued: “It was hard at the very, very beginning because it did feel like you were having this very personal, horrible crisis — and so was everybody else, but you didn’t know them.”
“People would talk about how terrible they felt that they had lost him, but then say, ‘Oh, but you probably don’t remember anything, do you, because you were a child.’ That would really upset me as a child. I found that really difficult.”
The Pearl Harbor actress continued, “But then the person you’re sharing it with is saying, ‘You have less right to this than I do,’ which is really odd. I found that, as I’m older, I’m less offended by it. There is something incredibly special and comforting about how much other people loved him, that, sort of the longer it goes on, [it’s] lovely.”
You can listen to the full episode here.
