Prince William's heartwarming words for grieving little girl

Prince William movingly comforted a little girl grieving for her father today, telling her: "I lost my mummy when I was very young too."

The prince, who later this year will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, asked Aoife, nine: "Do you know what happened to me? You know I lost my mummy when I was very young too. I was 15 and my brother was 12."

The prince, accompanied by his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, was visiting the Child Bereavement UK Centre in Stratford, which is marking its one year anniversary, and provides support for children and families when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying, or when a child is facing personal loss, the Daily Mail reports.

He urged Aoife, whose father John died from pancreatic cancer six years ago, not to bottle up her loss, adding: "Do you speak about your daddy? It's very important to talk about it.

Very, very important."

Aoife's mother, Marie, said afterwards: "I couldn't believe it when he started to talk about his mother. It was very emotional and I was willing myself not to start to cry. I almost did.

"I am telling my children that if they take anything away from this day, it is what he said about how important it is to talk. Kids do not forget that.

"Sometimes it hurts but we can remember the happy things too. It is so important to talk."

He also spoke to Shinobi, 12, who had earlier presented Kate with a bouquet of flowers, who had lost his grandmother three and half years earlier.

His mother, Lorna, had thought he was coping, but later heard from his school that he was finding her death difficult to cope with.

She said William also talked about losing his mother to them - and how much anger he felt at the time.

"He told us how he felt angry when she died. He very specifically used that word anger, he felt angry about it. He also told us how important it was to talk about how we feel when we lose someone as he found it very difficult to talk about it," she said.

"I was very touched that he wanted to speak to us about.

"We also spoke to the Duchess who told us that it was OK to feel the way we are feeling. That we shouldn't be afraid to feel sad."

- Daily Mail