Kate Beckinsale has told how she can empathise with Prince Harry and Prince William over the death of Princess Diana having also lost a parent at a young age.
The 47-year-old actress was just five when her father Richard, best known for his role as Lennie Godber alongside Ronnie Barker in Porridge, died of a heart attack aged 31 in 1979.
Speaking on Dax Shepard’sArmchair Expert podcast, she said: “I remember when their mother died, I was in New York, and seeing them in the context of other people sort of grieving for somebody they didn’t know… I thought, ‘Oh my God, I really know what that feels like’.”
But she added: “There is something incredibly special and comforting about how much other people loved him, that, sort of the longer it goes on, [it’s] lovely.”
