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'MUM WAS A TOTAL KID'

Princes Harry and William reveal Diana had a motto ‘you can be as naughty as you want, just don’t get caught’

The princess smuggled her boys into cinemas and took them on road trips in her flash BMW convertible

PRINCESS Diana was a mischievous mum who hid sweets in her son's socks and told them to be naughty, the brothers said.

The Princess of Wales loved rude cards and was a child at heart, the princes revealed.

 Naughty Princess Diana with Princes William and Harry on Loggers Leap ride at Thorpe Park
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Naughty Princess Diana with Princes William and Harry on Loggers Leap ride at Thorpe ParkCredit: Rex Features
 Prince Harry sticking his tongue out with his mother on the Buckingham Palace balcony
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Prince Harry sticking his tongue out with his mother on the Buckingham Palace balconyCredit: Getty Images

Prince Harry said: "Our mother was a total kid, through and through." He added: "One of her mottos to me was '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, you know, smuggle sweets into our socks.

"And I mean like literally walking back from a football match and having sort of five packets of Starburst.

"And just the whole shirt was just bulging with sweets and then sort of looking around, open the tuck box, throw it all in, lock it up." Prince William said: "She loved the rudest cards you could imagine.

"And I would be at school and I'd get a card from my mother.

 The Princess of Wales stuffed sweets in her sons socks before football games
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The Princess of Wales stuffed sweets in her sons socks before football gamesCredit: Rex Features

"Usually she found something very embarrassing, a very funny card, and then wrote very nice stuff inside.

"But I dared not open it in case the teachers or anyone else in the class had seen it."

The Princess of Wales smuggled her sons into the cinema and took them on road trips in her flash BMW with the top down.

Desperate to give them a normal life, she left the cosseted world of Kensington Palace to take them on down to earth trips to burger joints.

And she let the young royals feel the wind in their hair on country roads in her convertible, blaring out Enya.

Prince Harry recalled: "My mother cherished those moments of privacy and being able to be that mother rather than the Princess of Wales.

 Diana holding up Prince Harry in Highgrove House Garden, Gloucestershire, in 1986
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Diana holding up Prince Harry in Highgrove House Garden, Gloucestershire, in 1986Credit: Getty Images
 The princess and her boys don shades during a skiing holiday in Austria 1991
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The princess and her boys don shades during a skiing holiday in Austria 1991Credit: Rex Features

"She made the decision that no matter what, despite all the difficulties of growing up in that limelight and on that stage, she was going to ensure that both of us had as normal a life as possible.

"And if that means taking us for a burger every now and then or sneaking us into the cinema or driving through the country lanes with the roof down of her old-school BMW listening to Enya, I think it was - God, a blast from the past - all of that was part of her being a mum."

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have put pictures of the princess around the house so their children George and Charlotte will feel like they’ve grown up with her.

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