Mother's Day isn't easy for Prince William – it stirs up the palpable "emptiness" he says he feels since losing his mother, Princess Diana, more than 10 years ago.

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William was only 15 when his mother died in 1997, and he and Prince Harry were watched by millions of people around the world as they walked behind the carriage carrying her coffin. They rarely speak about her death and the pain that they felt, People writes.

But, now 26, William has accepted a new responsibility – royal patron of the Child Bereavement Charity, to which Diana was closely linked through her life – and he addressed families at a London event about how “losing a close family member is one of the hardest experiences anyone can endure.”

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