Secret Revealed On How Princess Diana Die? The facts about her death 26 years later…See More

Prince Harry has called it “a wound that festers” in his life, while his older brother, Prince William, has referred to it as “a pain like no other pain.”

Both men were referring to the event that forever altered their lives when they were still just boys — the devastating death of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

The year was 1997, and though Diana had been separated from her king-to-be husband, then-Prince Charles, for five years and divorced from him for one, none of that had done anything to diminish the 36-year-old’s global fame. She remained a popular humanitarian, an admired royal rebel and an international style icon.

The fascination with the former Lady Diana Spencer made her a fixture in newspapers and on tabloid and book covers. She was the most photographed woman of her time. She was beloved.

Then, suddenly, she was gone.

Read on to learn about her death and the timeline of remarkable incidents that both preceded and followed the tragedy.

In their ITV documentary “Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy,” the late princess’s sons, Prince Harry and Prince William, shared that they spoke to their mother for the last time in the hours just before her death. The two reflected on receiving a call from her at Balmoral Castle in Scotland and were “blasé” about speaking with their mother.

“I can’t necessarily remember what I said, but all I do remember is regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was,” Prince Harry said during the documentary. “If I’d known that that was the last time I was going to speak to my mother, the things I would have said to her.”

“Looking back at it now, it’s incredibly hard,” he continued I have to deal with that for the rest of my life: not knowing that it was the last time I’d speak to my mum, how differently that conversation would have panned out if I’d had even the slightest inkling that her life was going to be taken that night.”

Prince William admitted to similar regrets, adding that “Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say, ‘Goodbye, see you later, can I go off?’”

“If I’d known what was going to happen, I wouldn’t have been quite so blasé about it,” he continued. “That phone call sticks in my mind quite heavily.”