Why Princess Diana Would Have Been ‘Absolute Nightmare’ If She Was Alive

She is still seen as the People’s Princess and missed 22 years after her death, but it appears that in some ways, she might have been a hassle if she was still alive today.

According to resurfaced comments that Prince William made before the birth of his third child, Prince Louis, the Duke of Cambridge joked that while he would have loved to have his mother around to meet his children, she might have been difficult to deal with as a grandmother.

“She’d be a nightmare grandmother, an absolute nightmare,” he said in the documentary “Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy,” according to Express UK. “She’d love the children to bits, but she’d be an absolute nightmare.”

“She’d come, probably at bath time, cause an amazing scene, bubbles everywhere, bathwater all over the place, and then leave.”

However, he also admitted that while she might have caused some mischief for both him and Kate Middleton with how she would have been, she also would have been an amazing grandmother overall. Had she not passed away in a tragic car accident in Paris in 1997, she would now be a grandmother to four children—William's kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, as well as Prince Harry’s son, Archie Harrison.

Prince William’s comments also come as reports resurfaced that his parents’ divorce caused him to have some heavy burdens on his shoulders as a young boy and teen.

According to Diana’s former protection officer Ken Wharfe in the documentary “Prince William at Thirty,” the stress of the divorce led to her leaning on her older son for support.

“Diana did put tremendous responsibility on William’s shoulders, as someone to comfort and to talk to and to be with,” he said in the film.