Prince William, Prince Harry will attend birthday service at Princess Diana’s grave

Prince William, his wife, Kate, and Prince Harry will attend a private service at the late Princess Diana’s grave on what would have been her 56th birthday.

In a brief statement, Kensington Palace said Wednesday that the July 1 service will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and attended by Diana’s family.

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The service comes several weeks before the 20th anniversary of her in August 1997 death in a Paris car crash.

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Diana is buried on the grounds of Althorp estate, her family’s ancestral home in the countryside near Northampton in central England.

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William and Harry, who were 15 and 12 years old when their mother died, are marking the anniversary by commissioning a statue of Diana that will stand in the public gardens of Kensington Palace in London.

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