Sharing some of their earliest memories of their mother, Harry revealed the secret stash of sweets Diana would hide on him, while William admitted he was left blushing when his schoolboy poster crushes attended the palace.
Speaking as part of a 20th anniversary documentary, the Royals will also reveal the final contact they had with Diana before her tragic death in August 1997 before discussing how they felt in the aftermath of losing their mother.
Harry, 32, said: “Our mother was a total kid through and through. When everybody says to me, ‘So she was fun, give us an example,’ all I can hear is her laugh in my head. And that sort of crazy laugh of where there was just pure happiness shown on her face.
“One of her mottos to me was, you know, ’You can be as naughty as you want, just don’t get caught’. She was one of the naughtiest parents.
“She would come and watch us play football and smuggle sweets into our socks. I mean like literally walking back from a football match and having sort of five packets of Starburst.
“The whole shirt would just be bulging with sweets. Then I’d be looking around, open the tuck box, throw it all in, lock it up.”
Older brother William, 35, said: “She was a massive card writer. She loved the rudest cards you could imagine. And I would be at school and I’d get a card from my mother.
“Usually she found something very embarrassing, a very funny card, and then sort of wrote very nice stuff inside. But I dared not open it in case the teachers or anyone else in the class had seen it.”
Revealing one particular sticky situation involving model Naomi Campbell, William continued: “There’s a couple of memories I have that are particularly funny.
“Just outside this room where we are now, she organised, when I came home from school, to have Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell waiting at the top of the stairs.
“I was probably a 12 or 13-year-old boy who had posters of them on his wall. I went bright red and didn’t quite know what to say and sort of fumbled, and I think I pretty much fell down the stairs on the way up.
“I was completely and utterly sort of awestruck. But that was a very funny memory that – that’s lived with me forever about her loving and embarrassing and sort of, you know being – being sort of the joker.”
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy airs tomorrow on ITV at 9pm.
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