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How Prince William, Prince Harry Impact Diana’s Causes 28 Years After Her Death
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- Prince William and Prince Harry are separately backing causes that Princess Diana championed during her life
- Tessy Ojo of The Diana Award tells PEOPLE that when the men speak to young people about Diana, “There is a sense of immense pride: ‘Wow, my mother did that!’ “
- The Prince of Wales was introduced to the cause of homelessness by his mother, while the Duke of Sussex has adopted her advocation of landmine clearance
Prince William and Prince Harry are keeping the legacy of their late mother, Princess Diana, alive.
The princes may be estranged, something that saddens many of their family friends and those who knew the late Princess Diana, but separately, they have continued to forge paths on behalf of missions that Diana began.
For William, 43, that has meant backing the campaign to help the unhoused and developing that into a broad, practical bid to find new solutions to tackle the issue.
Meanwhile, Harry, 40, championed young people of southern Africa, especially amid the HIV and AIDS epidemic, a journey that began almost 20 years ago by creating the charity Sentebale. He has also adopted the landmine clearance organization Halo Trust, for which Diana made an iconic walk through a minefield in Angola, Africa, in the year that she died, 1997.
Both have worked to bolster support for people struggling with mental health challenges, something Diana was at the forefront of recognizing, and help for young people.
“The world witnessed who she was and witnessed what she did and collectively grieved for her,” says Tessy Ojo, CEO of the Diana Award, which both princes support.
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“They are both young men who have families, and from a sense of love and a place of keeping that memory alive, it is a no-brainer that they’d want to keep that memory alive. This is not just for their family but also for the wider world,” Ojo adds.
“I’ve seen how they watch young people who never met their mother articulate the impact she’s had on them,” Ojo tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “There is a sense of immense pride: ‘Wow, my mother did that!’ ”
They also bring her intuitive touch to the ordinary people they meet. Mick Clarke, CEO of homelessness charity The Passage, has seen Prince William at work on many occasions, including when he came privately during the COVID pandemic.
“He spends hours with people, and there is an awful lot of hugging!” Clarke tells PEOPLE.
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He adds, “When you’re at you’re lowest and knowing that someone who is going to be the future king says, ‘You are valued, you are important,’ it reinforces and affirms the human dignity,” Clarke adds.
“One of the most distressing things about homelessness is you lose all dignity and feel a failure through no fault of your own,” he continues. “And to have someone of his status saying, ‘You’re important and valued.’ From our point of view, to have someone who is our patron saying, ‘You’re in the right place, these guys can help,’ is immensely welcomed.”
The HALO Trust
It is a two-way street, with the princes picking up from the young people.
Ojo says, “When I see them listen, I also see they are learning something from someone who never met their mom but has learned something of her values. I love moments like that.”
“I also see the smile, the pride, and I see that they are thinking, ‘My mom did that.’ It feels like a re-commitment. If that person is doing this in my mum’s legacy, I have to do more. Almost like a re-ignition of that passion if that third party who never met my mom feels this strongly. This is my interpretation of the expressions I see,” she adds.
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Prince William and Prince Harry regularly, but separately, take part in Diana Award events, recognizing young people from around the world for the impact they are having on their own communities.
“They see that next generation who are instilling her legacy and values into generations to come,” Ojo says. “I’m sure they do it with their own individual families, but what the Diana Award does is continue that legacy and pass that legacy and values on to generations of young people who would never have met her.”
Ojo says that both sons reflect the values of their mother: duty, service, empathy, selflessness and “that ability to ally with, and think about others, and empathy to see – so that other people’s plights become visible.”
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She adds, “We live in an increasingly polarized world. The values that we uphold are around empathy and selflessness and the ability to step into other people’s shoes. It is drilling back into our humanity rather than some form of identity politics.”
In 2017, Prince Harry pledged his support to make the world free of landmines by 2025 in a powerful speech at Kensington Palace on International Mine Awareness Day, and last year Valdemar Fernandes, HALO Angola Program Operations Manager, and witnessed Diana’s memorable walk through the landmine in Angola told PEOPLE how the prince is continuing his mother’s work. “He is doing very well…He’s taking this seriously, he wants this job to be finished, and I think we’ll get there,” Fernandes said.
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Seyi Obakin, CEO of Centrepoint, which Prince William paired up with at the start of his public life after completing university 20 years ago, has seen the effect the heir can have on the young people who are helped by the charity.
“There may be a group of young people around the table. They’re nervous one minute, and he gets into the room and starts chatting to them, and the nerves fall away,” Obakin says. “And they start telling him things. He knows the right questions to ask, when to back off, when to lean in. It is amazing what he does.”
“And when he leaves, two things happen: One, they are on a high — they have just told the Prince of Wales what they’re going to do — and two, they want to do it. He leaves them in that state because they have said to him, ‘That’s what I am going to do.’ Very few people have that impact on other people.”
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Jon Stewart surprises Stephen Colbert with a surprise serenade from Andra Day

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart was one of Stephen Colbert’s final guests as “The Late Show” continues its final week, and he had quite the going-away present for his old friend.
Stewart, 63, and Colbert, 62, reminded fans that they go back decades to the late 1990s, when they both worked together on “The Daily Show” during Stewart’s first hosting stint.
“One of us has not aged as well as the other,” Stewart says of himself, joking, “One of these people is getting age-defying peptides, and the other is getting a placebo.”
The interview ended with Stewart presenting a gift for Colbert, a new recliner, but he had a surprise up his sleeve, bringing out one of Colbert’s favorite singers, Andra Day, which clearly stunned Colbert.
She came out and blew Colbert a few kisses before breaking into her 2015 breakthrough hit “Rise Up” for the comedy titans.
Stewart is no stranger to Colbert’s position, reminiscing on when he was fired from “The Jon Stewart Show,” which was syndicated through Paramount Domestic Television from 1993 to 1995.
“The term back then was ‘s–t-canned.’ I don’t know what they call it now. We had two more weeks to go, and they put security guards at all the exits … We didn’t have anything of value,” Stewart joked.
Stewart added that his show, ““spiraled so out of control” in those final weeks, “because I was not a mature grown-up like you are.”
Stewart’s final guest for that show was David Letterman, adding, “He said to me something very profound. He said, ‘Don’t confuse cancelation with failure.’ … But then he said, ‘But in this case it is also a failure.’”
Stewart also praised “The Late Show” staff, adding they were always, “So game” for whatever he had pitched to them, including a sketch involving alpacas.
“I am not a particularly good long term planner and I would challenge them. I talked to them and I said wouldn’t it be funny if it showed where I would be living at the time. Wouldn’t it be funny if I had a James Bond bookcase where I opened the bookcase and it revealed more of my lair. Wouldn’t it be funny if when it opened, it was revealed that I was raising alpacas? I was coming on the next day and he says to me, ‘They’ll build the room but the alpacas can’t be here till 1,’” Stewart said.
Colbert also welcomed director Steven Spielberg, who was promoting his new film “Disclosure Day,” which hits theaters June 12.
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Meryl Streep and Martin Short prove romance is still going strong with London dinner date

It’s [not] complicated.
Meryl Streep and Martin Short’s romance was proven to be still going strong after they were photographed together on a dinner date in London.
A fan took to X over the weekend to share that she had been seated near the actors in a restaurant.
“Spending a few days in London, picking a restaurant at random, and ending up eating just a few meters away from Meryl Streep and her husband ❤️,” the fan tweeted alongside a photo of the “Devil Wears Prada” actress and Short leaning in close to one another. (Streep and Short are not married.)
In the snap, the “Only Murders in the Building” actor and Streep were seated on the same side of their dining table and appeared to be looking at the actress’ cell phone.
When the fan was asked if she attempted to get a selfie with the actors, she replied, “No. They were having a great time. Full of laughs and tender gestures.
“No desire to impose myself in the middle of that,” the netizen claimed.
Streep and Short, both 76, first sparked dating rumors in October 2024 when they were spotted looking cozy while sitting together at the 2024 Golden Globes.
However, a rep for the “Father of the Bride” actor denied the gossip, telling People that they were “just very good friends, nothing more.”
In January 2024, Short doubled down on his claims that he and Streep were platonic during an appearance on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.
“We’re not a couple. We are just very close friends,” he claimed at the time.
However, the following month, the “It’s Complicated” actress and Short were spotted catching dinner together at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California.
That August, they held hands on the red carpet at the Season 4 premiere of “Only Murders in the Building.”
A source exclusively told Page Six that the actors “seemed together” during the premiere.
In October 2023, we revealed that Streep secretly split from her husband, Don Gummer, six years prior. They were married for 40 years and welcomed son Henry, 46, and daughters Mamie, 42, Grace, 40, and Louisa, 34.
Short was previously married to Nancy Dolman for three decades until she died in 2010. They welcomed three children via adoption: sons Oliver, 40, Henry, 36, and daughter Katherine, who sadly died in February by an apparent suicide. She was 42.
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John Travolta reacts to attention his viral Cannes beret looks have gotten

John Travolta explained his bold looks at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, particularly, his choice to rock different colored berets.
The actor, 72, first caused a stir with his choice of headgear Friday, when he sported a slouchy white beret and spectacles at the premiere of his directorial debut, “Propeller One-Way Night Coach.”
He followed it up the next day with with a black beret paired with black wire-rimmed glasses at the film’s photocall Saturday.
Travolta explained that he came up with the much-talked-about outfits because he wanted to present himself as a director and not an actor.
“I said, ‘I’m a director this time. You’re an actor, play the part of a director, look like an old-school director,’” he explained to CNN.
“So I looked up pictures from the ’20, ’30s, ’40s, ’50, ’60s, and the old-school directors wore berets, and the glasses, and I thought, ‘That’s what I’m doing. I’m doing an homage to being a director, so I’m going to play the part of being a director.’”
The A-lister said he wanted to be able to look back at his outfits and remember the moment.
“I’ll know — ‘Oh, that was ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach,’ that was Cannes, that’s when I won the Palme d’Or,’ and I’ll have a vividness of it,” he shared with a smile.
Travolta was presented with an honorary Cannes Palme d’Or — the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award — at this year’s annual festival.
“I’ve never been more proud to win an award!” he posted on Instagram Friday of the achievement. “To me the Cannes Palme d’Or award has always represented art at its finest. It is beyond a humbling experience.”
His 26-year-old daughter, Ella — who stars in “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” alongside her father — commented, “I’m so proud of you❤️.”
“Propeller One-Way Night Coach” follows a young airplane enthusiast named Jeff and his mother, who go on a one-way, cross-country journey to Hollywood.
It’s based on his own 1997 children’s novel of the same name.
Ella, who’s been by her dad’s side promoting the film at Cannnes, plays a flight attendant in the film.
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