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LONDON: Prince Harry has said that he cried only once over the death of his mother, Diana in 1997.
In a new interview clip aimed at promoting the publication of his autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry recalls how he and his brother Prince William were unable to show any emotions while they met mourners in public. He told ITV’s Tom Bradby he had, however, cried when his mother, the Princess of Wales, was laid to rest.
Prince Harry said he had felt “some guilt” walking along with the crowds who left flower bouquets outside Kensington Palace. The absence of Princess Diana in Prince Harry’s life has been highlighted as a theme throughout Spare.
Prince Harry’s book chronicles hugely personal details
Prince Harry’s book “Spare,” went on sale in Spain on Thursday five days before its official release, chronicles hugely personal details, such as how he lost his virginity and took drugs. It also discloses intimate private instances of family disharmony.
BBC News obtained a copy and has been translating it. In the ITV interview to be broadcast on Sunday evening, the Duke of Sussex said everyone knows where they were when their mother died in a car accident in Paris in August 1997.
The Prince said there were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to their mother. He said there they were shaking people’s hands, smiling and couldn’t understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.
Prince Harry further said that everyone thought and felt like they knew their mum, but the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion at that moment.
The Prince also wrote about getting a driver to take him through the road tunnel in Paris where his mother died, hoping for closure from a “decade of unrelenting pain”. And he said his father did not hug him when he broke the news Princess Diana had died, sitting on his bed in Balmoral.
