Prince Harry and Princess Diana.Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage; Tim Graham Picture Library/Getty Images
Prince Harryis recalling coping with his motherPrincess Diana’s death.
“I saw the photographs of the reflection of all the paparazzi in the window at the same time,” he said, adding, “I saw the back of her blonde hair, you know, slumped on the back of the seat.”
However, some of the more graphic photos were removed, something Harry said he was “grateful” for.
“But I was, I think I, at that point, I was looking for, I was looking for, I was looking for evidence that it was after that it actually happened, that it was true,” he said. “But I was also looking for something to hurt because at that point I was still pretty numb to the whole thing. That was, again, my body, my sort of nervous system just kind of shut down and said like, ‘Let’s not.’ "
Prince Harry, who was 12 when Diana died, recalled that his father, King Charles, told him of the accident, sitting on his bed at Balmoral Castle in Scotland and saying, “Darling boy, mummy’s been in a car crash.” Harry said he waited for his father to confirm that Princess Diana would be okay but was told she “didn’t make it.”
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Prince Harrysaid he cried only once, at his mother’s burial.
The Duke of Sussex said it was decided that Princess Diana’s two sons —Prince HarryandPrince William— would walk behind her coffin in the procession through London at her funeral.
In anexclusive excerptfromPrince Harry’s memoir, PEOPLE revealed for the first time how the royal relived Princess Diana’s final moments before her death.
After the driver took him through at the same speed that his mother’s car was driving, Harry wrote, “I’d always imagined the tunnel as some treacherous passageway, inherently dangerous, but it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel.”
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The book jacket of Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’.PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Prince Harry’s memoir, which will be released on Jan. 10, is an “intimate” and “heartfelt” look into the “experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him.”
source: people.com
