Prince William and Prince Harry reminisced on Wednesday about their childhood visits to the gardens outside the Kensington Palace home they shared with their mother, Princess Diana.
William, 35, recalled that he remembered “seeing the pigeons and squirrels,” adding, “We used to come here a lot.
”The princes, along with Princess Kate, visited the Sunken Garden on the Kensington Palace grounds, which has been redesigned as an all-white garden in honor of Diana’s favorite color.
Noting that he and Harry used to feed the fish in the garden’s pond, William said, “there never used to be this many in here” — before being told some of the koi carp are so old that they are the same ones from his youth.
William, Kate and Harry were given a tour of the plants by Sean Harkin, head gardener, and Graham Dillamore, who worked on the Kensington Palace grounds when Diana lived there.
“It does look really different,” Kate, in a floral-patterned Prada dress and L.K. Bennett heels, observed. “I love the semi-wildness.”
Prince Harry told staff that when the summer opening of the White Garden wraps, he would like to keep some of the plants and flowers alive, transporting them to his own Kensington Palace plot to tend them. Flowers include the William and Catherine roses, Forget-Me-Nots, and white roses chosen particularly for their perfume.
“[William and Harry] were very interested in hearing about the flowers,” says Harkin. “Prince Harry is quite green-fingered himself and asked lots of questions about what we were growing. We were talking about the importance of having plants rather than paving over.”
William, Kate and Harry also met with representatives from eight charities closest to Diana’s heart, including the English…
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