Images of Prince Harry and Prince William walking behind their mother Diana’s coffin went viral. In his biography “Spare” (in German: “Reserve”), which will be published on Tuesday, as well as a trailer for an interview with the broadcaster ITV, which will be broadcast on Sunday evening. In the trailer, Harry says he felt guilty when he met the mourners outside the gates of Kensington Palace. “There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers for our mother and there we were, smiling and shaking hands with the mourners,” said the prince.
He looked back at the videos afterwards and wondered why the mourners’ hands were so wet when they shook them. “But that was from all the tears they wiped from their faces.” As they walked through the mourning crowd in London, he and William could not have shown any emotion.”Everyone thought and felt as if they knew our mother. And then come the two people who were closest to her and loved by her and can’t show any emotions at this moment,” emphasizes the 38-year-old.
Prince Harry also reports on Diana’s death in his biography “Spare”, which will be published on Tuesday. After a mistake, the book was published in Spain last week. Several British media obtained copies and have been reporting excerpts from the work ever since. Accordingly, his father Charles woke him up in the morning and said that Diana had had an accident and did not survive. Charles sat on his bed but didn’t give his son a hug.
According to his own statements, Harry did not believe for a long time that his mother had really died, but only faked the death to escape the press. Only when Diana’s sister Sarah brought him a lock of Diana’s hair in a small blue box from Paris did he know that his mother had really died.
Harry also deals with the funeral service and the discussions about it in the book. Accordingly, Diana’s brother Charles Spencer made sure that neither William nor Harry should walk behind the coffin. When it was agreed that only the then 15-year-old William should walk, Buckingham Palace intervened and announced that both sons should take part in the funeral procession. According to his own statements, Harry also wanted to accompany William out of brotherly love. In general, according to the prince, he didn’t feel anything for a long time after his mother’s death. It was only when the coffin was lowered into the ground in Althorp that he was able to cry for the first time.
Sources: Guardian, BBC
