Prince Harry received mysterious ‘blue box’ by aunt after Princess Diana’s demise

Princess Diana
Princess Diana
  • Prince Harry says his aunt Sarah sent him a box with a unique gift.
  • She’d clipped it from her mother’s head while in Paris.
  • Harry describes his initial reaction to an unexpected gift in ‘Spare.’

After Princess Diana passed away, Prince Harry says his aunt Lady Sarah McCorquodale gave him a unique gift.

In his memoir “Spare,” Harry describes his initial reaction to an unexpected gift his Aunt Sarah sent them: “What’s this?

Open it, she commanded.  I lifted off the top of my blue box. Inside was…a moth? No. A mustache? No. What’s…? Her hair, Harry.”

“Aunt Sarah explained that, while in Paris, she’d clipped two locks from Mummy’s head. So there it was. Proof. He said in the book, “She is really gone.

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