{"id":1266047,"date":"2025-04-10T17:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1266047"},"modified":"2025-04-10T17:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:43:19","slug":"prince-william-and-prince-harrys-childhood-bodyguard-passes-away-bodyguard-royals-uk-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/prince-william-and-prince-harrys-childhood-bodyguard-passes-away-bodyguard-royals-uk-diana\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William and Prince Harry&#8217;s Childhood Bodyguard Passes Away #bodyguard #royals #uk #diana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V-TA9ES4qzA?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Prince Harry and Prince William\u2019s childhood bodyguard, Graham Craker, has died.<br \/>\nCraker\u2019s death aged 77 was confirmed by his sons Graham and James on social media.<br \/>\n\u201cHe was an incredible man &#8211; our hero, our rock &#8211; and meant everything to us,\u201d they wrote in tribute.<br \/>\n\u201cWords can&#8217;t describe the pride we feel in how he lived his life so selflessly, not only in his professional career but in his personal life, right up to the very end.\u201d<br \/>\nPrince Harry once revealed a heartbreaking memory of his former bodyguard who has sadly died. It has emerged that Graham Craker, a protection officer of both Harry and his older brother Prince William when the were youngsters, has passed away aged 77.<br \/>\nDuring the funeral of their mother Princess Diana, he walked with them behind their mum&#8217;s hearse as it was transported from St James&#8217;s Palace to Westminster Abbey, where her funeral was held. He was also at Balmoral with the two young princes in late August of 1997 when they were told the news that their mum had been killed following a car crash in Paris.<br \/>\nThe royal bodyguard who was with Princes William and Harry on the day they found out about their mother&#8217;s tragic car crash has died.<br \/>\nGraham Craker, 77, who was nicknamed &#8216;Crackers&#8217; by the two Princes, had been a Metropolitan Police officer for 35 years.<br \/>\nHe served as the boys&#8217; personal protection officer for 15 years until he retired in 2001.<br \/>\nOn the day of Diana&#8217;s death, Craker was with the pair in Balmoral in Scotland, with their father the then-Prince Charles and their grandparents Queen Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh.<br \/>\nSpeaking to the celebrity.land in 2017, Craker described hearing the news: &#8216;Perhaps the most emotional was seeing William the morning after.<br \/>\n&#8216;I saw William walking his dog outside, and I walked up to him and said, \u201cI\u2019m very, very sorry to hear your bad news.\u201d William very sadly said, \u201cThank you.\u201d&#8217;<br \/>\nOn the day of the funeral, Craker accompanied William and Harry as they walked behind the hearse carrying their mother&#8217;s body as it made the journey from St James&#8217;s Palace to Westminster Abbey.<br \/>\nPrince William and Prince Harry just lost a beloved confidant from their childhood. Their former bodyguard, Graham Craker, has died at the age of 77.<br \/>\nThe news of his passing was initially reported by The Sun, who noted that Craker walked with them behind the hearse carrying their mother, Princess Diana, on the way to her funeral at Westminster Abbey after her tragic death in a car crash in Paris. William was 15 and Harry was 12 at the time. Craker also sat in the front of the hearse for the ride to her burial.<br \/>\nA former bodyguard to the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex has died.<br \/>\nGraham Craker worked as a close protection officer when Prince William and Prince Harry were children.<br \/>\nHe also accompanied Diana, Princess of Wales&#8217;s hearse at her funeral after her death in 1997.<br \/>\nMr Craker&#8217;s death was confirmed by his sons on social media, who described him as &#8220;an incredible man&#8221; who &#8220;lived his life so selflessly&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe former bodyguard who was with Prince Harry and Prince William on the night of Princess Diana&#8217;s tragic death has passed away at the age of 77. The security officer played a significant role in the princes&#8217; lives during a pivotal moment in their history. His dedication to the royal family has been remembered and honored by those who knew him.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:-<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0qn1ekz17qo<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.celebrity.land.co.uk\/news\/article-14577855\/Prince-Harry-William-bodyguard-dead-Crackers-car-crash.html?ito=social-whatsapp-main<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/prince-harry-shares-tragic-way-35007066<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V-TA9ES4qzA\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry and Prince William\u2019s childhood bodyguard, Graham Craker, has died. Craker\u2019s death aged 77 was confirmed by his sons Graham and James on social media. \u201cHe was an incredible man &#8211; our hero, our rock &#8211; and meant everything to us,\u201d they wrote in tribute. \u201cWords can&#8217;t describe the pride we feel in how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}