Prince William and Prince Harry have had a turbulent relationship over the past few months in the wake of the latter stepping down as a senior member of the British royal family with his wife, Meghan Markle. However, one thing that will always unite the two brothers is the love that they have for their late mother, Princess Diana.

Days before the 23rd anniversary of Diana’s death, the brothers have released a joint statement to honor her. This is the first joint statement that they have issued together since Harry left the royal family and moved to Santa Barbara, California with his wife.

Fox News reported that the brothers’ statement was about a statue that is being erected to honor their mother. William and Harry said that the statue was first “commissioned to mark the twentieth anniversary of her death and recognize her positive impact in the UK and around the world” in February 2017.

“The statue will be installed in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace on 1st July 2021, marking The Princess’s 60th birthday,” the brothers added. “The Princes hope that the statue will help all those who visit Kensington Palace to reflect on their mother’s life and her legacy.”

“Our mother touched so many lives,” William and Harry concluded.

Diana was killed on August 31, 1997 in a car crash in Paris, France.

This comes after True Royalty TV released a special called “The Royal Beat: Finding Freedom,” which delves into the new bombshell book “Finding Freedom,” written by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand.

Host Kate Thornton, who spoke with Scobie for the special, explained that the documentary aims to. give Harry and Meghan a voice after they were silenced by British tabloids. She also said that Scobie and Durand wanted to look into what led to Harry’s alleged falling out with his older brother, who is second in line to the throne.

“I can only imagine [what caused the great hurt for William] is the loss — a temporary loss,” she said. “I am sure it’s a temporary loss. And that’s touched upon in our TV special. These guys will repair. They will heal. But right now there are fractures quite clearly within their relationship. They’re not even living on the same continent. And that’s going to hurt because they… were shoulder to shoulder, brother to brother.”

However, Thornton added that this does not mean the brothers can’t heal their “rift.”

“Because at the end of the day, when you work together and you are family members, I think it’s an extraordinary expectation to expect nobody’s ever going to fall out and nothing’s ever going to go wrong,” she pointed out. “And that you’re not going to butt heads.”

“And what we want for our royal family is for them to be progressive, it’s for them to have an appetite to modernize,” Thornton added. “And you can’t expect them to do that without hitting a few bumps in the road. And I think that’s pretty much what’s happening here.”

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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