10 Times the Royals Got Surprisingly Candid

So much for royal protocol

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Queen Elizabeth on how heavy that crown is

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"You can’t look down to read the speech, you have to take the speech up. Because if you did, your neck would break — it would fall off," she explains in a new documentary called The Coronation

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Prince Harry on no one wanting to be king (or queen)

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"Is there any one of the royal family who wants to be king or queen? I don't think so, but we will carry out our duties at the right time," he told Newsweek.

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Prince William on how he wants to raise George

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"I want George to grow up in a real, living environment, I don't want him growing up behind palace walls, he has to be out there. The media make it harder but I will fight for them to have a normal life," he told GQ.

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Prince Harry on his mental health struggles

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“I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well,” he said during a podcast interview. “I thought that thinking of her was only going to make me sad and not going to bring her back. So from an emotional side, I was, like, ‘Right, don’t ever let your emotions be part of anything.'”

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Princess Diana on feeling lonely in her marriage

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"It was isolating, but it was also a situation where you couldn't indulge in feeling sorry for yourself: you had to either sink or swim. And you had to learn that very fast," she told Frontline.

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Princess Victoria

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“I used to think I was stupid and slow," she said of her struggles with dyslexia.

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Prince Harry on disagreeing with how his mother's death was handled

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"I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television . . . I don’t think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances," he told Newsweek.

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Princess Diana on her struggles with bulimia

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"I had bulimia for a number of years. And that's like a secret disease. You inflict it upon yourself because your self-esteem is at a low ebb, and you don't think you're worthy or valuable. You fill your stomach up four or five times a day - some do it more - and it gives you a feeling of comfort. It's like having a pair of arms around you, but it's temporarily, temporary. Then you're disgusted at the bloatedness of your stomach, and then you bring it all up again," she told Frontline.

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Kate Middleton on the isolation of motherhood

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"It is lonely at times and you do feel quite isolated, but actually so many other mothers are going through exactly what you are going through," she said during a meeting at the Global Academy.

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Prince William on Harry's engagement

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“For me personally, I hope it means he stays out of my fridge and stop scrounging my food, which he’s done for the last few years!” he said of the big news.

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This article originally appeared on Harper's BAZAAR US.


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