![]() ![]() ![]() (Harry was serving in Afghanistan.) In a touching reminder of her close relationship with the brothers, she requested that mourners make donations to Harry's charity Sentebale.Īlexandra Pettifer (known as Tiggy Legge-Bourke before taking her husband's surname) had a family history with the royals before being hired as a nanny for Prince William and Prince Harry in 1993: her mother had been a lady-in-waiting to Princess Anne. On the day of Powell's funeral, William canceled four high-profile engagements to attend her service. Yet Powell was far more than a nanny: She helped support the brothers during Charles and Diana's divorce and comforted them after Diana's death in 1997. "If they saw a muddy puddle, they wanted to jump in it, and if there was something to climb, they wanted to climb it." ![]() "I have a very normal relationship with them," Powell told the Hertfordshire Mercury ahead of William's 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton.ĭespite their extraordinary birthright, "their parents wanted them to have as ordinary a childhood as they could," she said. Olga Powell joined the royal family when Prince William was 6 months old and became a beloved figure for both Prince William and Prince Harry until her death in 2012 at age 82. ![]() Prince William, Princess Diana, Prince Harry and Olga Powell. ![]()
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