NEARLY three decades after Princess Diana’s death, her sons and their families are still finding very public, very personal ways to keep her in the picture — sometimes literally.

Prince William and Prince Harry opened up about her most intimate mum-moments in the 2017 documentary Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy. Harry described the “no escape” hugs that swallowed him whole as a child, saying he still misses that kind of compassion. William said he and Princess Kate make sure their children — Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — know who Diana was, with photos around the house and regular chats about her.

Some tributes have been stitched right into royal milestones. William proposed in October 2010 with Diana’s 18-carat sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring, saying it was his way of making sure his mum didn’t “miss out”. And when William and Kate welcomed their daughter in 2015, they gave her the name Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.

Harry and Meghan’s wedding in May 2018 also carried a nod to Diana: guests sang “Guide Me, O Thy Great Redeemer”, the same hymn used at Diana’s 1997 funeral and at William and Kate’s 2011 wedding. In 2019, Harry and Meghan included Diana’s sisters, Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale, in Archie’s christening — while Kate wore the same Collingwood pearl earrings Diana wore to Harry’s own christening in 1984.

Flowers have become a quiet through-line. Forget-me-nots — Diana’s favourite — appeared behind a Mother’s Day 2019 photo of Archie’s feet and were also included in Meghan’s wedding bouquet. Meghan later said forget-me-nots were among the “sweet little moments” hidden in the illustrations of her children’s book The Bench.

The next generation is involved too. For U.K. Mother’s Day in 2021, William and Kate shared that George, Charlotte and Louis make cards each year remembering “Granny, Diana” for William — including one from Charlotte saying, “Papa is missing you.” That same Mother’s Day, Harry arranged for flowers to be laid at Diana’s grave at Althorp.

In recent years, the tributes have kept coming: Harry dedicated his memoir Spare to his mother, and William posted a previously unseen childhood photo with Diana for Mother’s Day in March 2026, writing, “Remembering my mother, today and every day.”