Princess Diana Thought Prince Harry Might Become King Instead of ‘Shy’ Prince William

Princess Diana reportedly had different plans regarding who she thought should take the throne.

Instead of Prince William, the eldest of her two sons, Diana believed Prince Harry would be a better fit for the job, according to her close friend Richard Kay.

“I think William has been a bit of a surprise. He was a shy young man,” the veteran royal writer said during an appearance on the Daily Mail’s Palace Confidential podcast on Tuesday, March 10.

“Certainly, when his mother was still alive, she would tell me that she never really thought that William wanted the ‘top job,’ as she called it,” Kay continued. “The idea that he would one day wear the crown.”

Diana, who tragically died in a car crash at the age of 36 in 1997, and Kay became friends when he first began covering the royal family.

Diana was allegedly “preparing the way for the possibility that it would be Harry who succeeded his father,” and the late princess would often call her younger son, 41, “Good King Harry.”

“Things haven’t worked out like that, and I think we are all rather grateful that they haven’t,” Kay explained, comparing the situation to how some people believed Princess Margaret would have been better for the role of queen than Queen Elizabeth II.

He added, “The consensus was ‘we got the right one.’ And, I think we got the right one in William as Prince of Wales.”

Kay said that he admired how William, 43, is “coming up with some quite different ways to approach royalty.”

“He recognizes that some of the aspects of modern monarchy are antediluvian and doesn’t resonate well with the modern public, and I think he is aware that he’s going to have to make some big changes to ensure its survival,” the longtime British journalist concluded.