Prince Harry says in an interview with ITV that he has only cried once over the death of his mother Diana.
Harry believes he was not allowed to show any emotion when he and his brother went to greet the public at Kensington Palace following his mother’s death in 1997.
“I cried once, at the funeral,” she tells Tom Bradby in a new clip from the interview airing Sunday. The British prince says he felt guilty and thinks his brother William felt the same way. “There were 50,000 bouquets for our mother and we just stood there shaking hands, with smiles,” he plays. And those hands were wet. We didn’t understand why, but it was because of the tears they dried.”
“Everyone thought they knew our mother and the two people closest to her who she loved the most couldn’t show any emotion at the time,” Harry recalls.
In his autobiography Replacement the British prince details his love for his mother, who died in a car accident in Paris when he was 12. He says they had to walk behind his mother’s coffin while a crowd watched. The prince says his father didn’t hug him when he came to break the news. He also recounts how he drove a chauffeur to the Paris tunnel where his mother died, hoping to finally get over a “decade of unrelenting pain.”
With his book, the prince follows in the footsteps of his mother and father, Princess Diana and King Charles, who also hoped to be better understood through the publication of a memoir. The autobiography begins with Harry’s traumatic childhood and ends with the parenthood he shares with his wife Meghan Markle, whom he met in 2016.
