Prince Harry following his mother’s death in 1997
Prince Harry said he only cried once, when his mother Princess Diana died in 1997.
And in a new clip from a promotional interview for his autobiography, Prince Harry explains how he and his brother, Prince William, were unable to show their feelings to the mourners at their mother’s funeral.
In an interview with Tom Bradley on ITV, Harry said he cried at his mother’s burial.
The Duke of Sussex said he felt “a little guilty” as he walked among those in attendance at the funeral service as they laid flowers outside Kensington Palace.
Harry focused on the absence of his mother Princess Diana during his memoirs.
The memoirs are not expected to be published before the 10th of this month, but excerpts were leaked and published after copies of the memoirs were initially sold in Spain.
The BBC has obtained a copy of the memoirs and is translating them.
In an interview with Britain’s ITV, which airs on Sunday, Harry said ‘everyone knew where they were’ when his mother died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
He said days after the funeral, he reviewed posted photos of him and his brother at the ceremony.
“I cried once, during the burial, and you know I detailed (in the diary) what it was like, and how I felt guilty, and I think William felt the same way, walking around Kensington,” she said .
“There were about 50,000 bouquets of roses for our mother and many handshakes, with people and smiles, and wet hands that we shook. We didn’t know why they were wet, but it was because of the tears that I wiped away,” He added.
Harry added: “Everyone felt they knew our mother, while the two people closest to her and the two people she loved the most were unable to show their feelings at the time.”
The diaries include details of Prince Harry’s walk at his mother’s funeral, what mourners told him and how he felt as he was unable to cry during the funeral.
He also wrote about the details of his request for a private chauffeur to drive the car for him in the same tunnel that saw his mother’s car crash and death in Paris.
He said his father did not hug him after news of his mother’s death and as he lay in his bed at Balmoral Palace.
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Clips of Prince Harry’s memoirs leaked before they were published
Also in the memoirs, there is a claim by Prince Harry that his brother physically attacked him, such as his first sexual intercourse, details of his drug use, and his claim that he killed 25 Taliban fighters during his tenure. service in Afghanistan.
Harry’s claims of killing 25 Taliban fighters have been criticized by a number of veterans.
Former officer Tim Collins, known for his military speeches during the Iraq war and for asking officers to ‘show respect’, said Prince Harry had ‘failed us badly’ and that he ‘wasn’t our role model of behavior in the military”.
The royal family has said it will not comment on the content of the notes.
Prince Harry and his wife, Megan, had announced their resignation from their royal duties in 2020 and said they were planning to become financially independent.
The couple gave a television interview to the famous American broadcaster, Oprah Winfrey, last year, during which they explained the difficulties they faced in their relationship with members of the royal family, as well as a series of documentaries, for the Netflix network, which aired last month, which clarified more details.