The Duke of Sussex He described the guilt he felt as he walked out of Kensington Palace after his mother’s death.
In a clip from Harry: The Interview, which will air on Sundays at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVXHarry talks about his memories of meeting mourners after his mother’s death Princess of WalesIn 1997.
The Duke said he and William were unable to show any emotion when they met the mourners.
‘Everyone thought and felt that they knew our mother, and the two people closest to her, the two people she loved the most were unable to show any emotion at that moment,’ he told presenter Tom Bradby.
A screengrab of an anonymous handout released by ITV to the Duke of Sussex (left) during an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby in California, US for Harry: The Interview programme.
An anonymous handout screengrab released by ITV of Prince Harry and Prince William to meet mourners following the death of their mother Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997
He added: ‘Everybody knows where they were and what they were doing the night my mum died.’
Harry also explains that he once cried at his mother’s funeral – because of her mother’s death.
‘I cried at the cemetery once, and you know how strange it was and actually there was some guilt I felt, and I think William felt the same as he walked around outside Kensington Palace.’
Harry described feeling the tears of mourners on his hands as he waved them off outside Kensington Palace in 1997 after Diana’s death.
‘Mum had 50,000 bouquets and there we were, shaking people’s hands, smiling,’ he says.
‘I’ve seen the videos, well, I’ve looked back and forth everywhere. And we who were shaking wet hands, we could not understand why their hands were wet, but they were all tears that they were wiping away.’
‘I cried in a graveyard once, and you know I go into detail about how weird it was and actually there was some guilt I felt,’ says Harry.
Prince Harry (pictured with William and now King Charles at Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997) remembers the moment his father told him of his mother’s death, who he claims didn’t hug him when the news broke.
In a separate teaser for an interview with Good Morning America, Harry said his ‘bad’ relationship with his brother would make his mother ‘sad’.
In his new autobiography ‘Spare’ Harry also revealed that his father had not hugged him When he broke the news Diana The car was in an accident.
The Duke, 38, writes how he put news of Diana’s car crash to bed with the King referring to him as ‘my dear son’ as she suffered head injuries that looked unlikely to recover.
He writes: ‘What I remember with amazing clarity is that I didn’t cry. Not tears. Dad didn’t hug me.’
Harry recalls how the king ‘examined old quilts, blankets and sheets’ in bed as he was told the terrible news.
After learning how serious his mother’s condition was, he remembers ‘silently pleading with Father, or God, or both’ that it wasn’t true.
Charles told her there were ‘complications’ with Diana’s condition after she was ‘seriously injured’ in the accident.
Harry remembers asking his mother to visit him in hospital, before Charles explained that “she’s not well anymore”.
After his father left, the Duke said he lived alone while his brother William, whom he affectionately called ‘Willie’, stayed in a separate room.
A screengrab of an anonymous handout released by ITV to the Duke of Sussex (left) during an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby in California, US for Harry: The Interview programme.
An undated handout screengrab released by ITV of Prince Harry (left) and Prince William meeting mourners following the death of their mother Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997
Harry (pictured with Princess Diana and Prince William in 1995) recalls asking to see his mother in hospital before Charles told her “she’s not well”.
Prince Harry’s highly anticipated memoir is set to be released on January 10, but copies have already been leaked.
Harry claims to have ‘decades of trying to reconstruct’ his memory of that morning, but after all this time he has come to the ‘inevitable conclusion’ – that he was left alone in his room until 9am the next morning when Piper started playing outside. .
The heartbreaking recollection of Harry’s mother’s death comes as one of several explosive claims from Spare, his long-awaited memoir which is set for release in the UK on Monday 10 January.
The emotional paragraph came after Harry spoke about Diana’s relationship with Dodi Fayed after she and William visited her while on holiday with their mother in St Tropez.
Harry recalled seeing his mother light up in Dodi’s presence as she described the filmmaker as ‘cool’ and ‘nice’.
She reflects on a conversation she had with William about her mother’s new partner – and how they both agreed that, as long as she was happy, then they were happy for her.
Elsewhere in the book, Harry remembers the days after his mother’s death and how She fought with herself to accept the truth of the situation.
She recalled how she and William were banned from watching TV to avoid news of the car accident.
After Diana’s sisters went to France to identify her body, Harry recalled being reunited with his father and aunts in London, where Aunt Sarah (Lady Sarah McCorquodale) gave each brother a small blue box containing a lock of Diana’s blonde hair.
Harry remembered not believing the hair belonged to his mother, and convinced himself it belonged to someone else so he wouldn’t have to deal with the reality of her death.
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