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For William, that hesitation may have mattered as much as anything Charles actually said.
His father had spent a lifetime inside an institution where emotion was controlled, appearances protected, and private difficulties handled behind doors the public was never supposed to see.
Especially after Diana died.
He was only fifteen when his mother was killed in Paris in August 1997.
The world remembers what came afterward through iconic images.
Crowds lining London streets.
And behind it, two boys walking through an ocean of public grief while experiencing something painfully private.
Millions watched them.
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