Back in 2021, the Prince of Wales spoke about the car journeys he used to take with Princess Diana and remembered the sweet “family moment” of his mother singing Tina Turner at the “top of her voice.”
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Speaking on Apple Fitness+’s Time to Walk series, William, 41, shared this memory while taking viewers on a walking tour of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
“When I was younger, Harry and I were at boarding school. My mother used to play all sorts of songs to kind of ease the anxiety of going back to school,” William said on the show.
“And one of the songs I remember vividly and which has stuck with me all this time – and which I still, to this day, enjoy secretly – is Tina Turner’s ‘The Best,’ because sitting in the backseat, singing along, it felt like a real family moment.”
The Prince of Wales continued: “My mother, she’d be driving along, singing at the top of her voice. And even the policeman in the car would occasionally join in, singing along as well.”
“You’d be singing and listening to the music all the way to the school gates, where they dropped us off,” he added. “That’s when reality kind of sunk in, that you really were going back to school, because before that, you were lost in the music. You’d want to play it again just to keep that family moment going.”
“When I listen to it now, it takes me back to those car rides and brings back lots of memories of my mother.”
Tina Turner – The Best (Official Music Video)