Eh I don't know. I just don't exactly think that is the kind of thing, those words, Charles would say to his ex brother in law at any time. Think of the timing of that. He had been getting along with her. Her brother, not so much. The calls about what was happening with the kids previously - I think it was that someone was insisting they bring the kids to the Palace to display them or make them see the flower displays and Philip said they would not (the kids were dealing with their feelings - I seem to remember that they were not certain exactly where William was as he was up in the hills somewhere). The family was circling the wagons about protecting the kids from what they saw/felt could create long term problems. I suspect they had numerous discussions just in that time period of how to help care for the kids in addition to all the funeral planning. He's just come back from joining his ex sisters in law to bring back the bod...
I don't know if I really buy the idea of her trying this or that to be Diana 2.0. There are some big holes of not following the script . And, the alternative doesn't come off as: but I did this better alternative because I could. Like the showing off the babies on the steps of the hospital. Why miss that chance to be linked with Diana? because Catherine did it first? Doubtful. It's weird, no? A deliberate choice not to recreate that classic pictures around the world? It would have immortalized her look as being part of the Family and pulled out periodically when the kids were mentioned in print. Especially after how they left soon thereafter when there were not as many photos of her as part of the family. The walk through the Palace (in a white dress right after birth) isn't even close to being similar or a one up. When they are asked to show the baby, it is as if they turn the baby away from the camera. Less ...