He recalled saying, “I’m very, very sorry to hear your bad news,” to the young prince as he was walking his dog. “Thank you,” William said.
Harry writes of the brothers’ tight bond with Craker in his memoir Spare.
Harry said, “The driver had to keep stopping so the bodyguard could get out and remove the flowers from the windshield.”
It was Graham who was the bodyguard. He was quite popular with Willy and myself. He was always referred to as Crackers. That seemed hysterical to us.
Another indication of the royals’ admiration for Craker and his work was his attendance at William and Kate’s wedding ten years after his retirement.
