Prince Harry talks about his trauma at his mother’s death

• The Duke of Sussex says he requested to see photos and documents from the crash.
• Prince Harry’s memoir, “Harry,” will be published on January 10th.
• The Duke of Sussex says he and his brother were unable to show any emotion in the public.

Prince Harry reflects on how he handled his mother Princess Diana’s passing.

In his book Spare, which he excerpted during his Sunday interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby, the Duke of Sussex said that he requested to see pictures and the confidential government dossier of the catastrophic car accident in Paris that claimed the life of his mother in 1997.

“I saw the photographs of the reflection of all the paparazzi in the window at the same time,” he said, adding, “I saw the back of her blonde hair, you know, slumped on the back of the seat.”

Harry expressed his gratitude for the removal of some of the more gruesome images, though.

“But I was, I think I, at that point, I was looking for, I was looking for, I was looking for evidence that it was after that it actually happened, that it was true,” he said. “But I was also looking for something to hurt because at that point I was still pretty numb to the whole thing. That was, again, my body, my sort of nervous system just kind of shut down and said like, ‘Let’s not.’ ”

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The late Princess Diana’s 12-year-old son, Prince Harry, described how his father, King Charles, informed him of the accident while lying in bed at Scotland’s Balmoral Castle, saying, “Darling boy, mummy’s been in a car crash.” Prince Diana “didn’t make it,” according to Harry, who claimed he waited for his father to reassure him that she would be okay.

At his mother’s funeral, Prince Harry claimed to have shed just one tear.

“I go into detail about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt — and I think William felt as well — by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace,” he said. “Fifty-thousand bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people’s hands, smiling. I’ve seen the videos, right? I’ve looked back over it all. And the wet hands that we were shaking — we couldn’t understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears they were wiping away.”

He added, “Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum. And the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment.”

According to the Duke of Sussex, it was decided that Prince Harry and Prince William would follow Princess Diana’s coffin during the funeral procession across London.

“And there’s absolutely no way that I would let him do that by himself,” Harry said of his brother. “And there’s absolutely no way that he would let me do that by myself.”

‘There was some guilt I felt walking around the outside of Kensington Palace’

Prince Harry goes into unprecedented detail on life in and outside of the Royal Family in an exclusive interview with Tom Bradby

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Harry, who was 23 years old at the time, traveled through the same tunnel where his mother had died ten years earlier when attending the Rugby World Cup semifinal in Paris in 2007. He describes the severe suffering he underwent in his quest for closure in his brand-new book.

Harry writes, “I’d always imagined the tunnel as some treacherous passageway, inherently dangerous, but it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunne,” after the driver took him through at the same speed as his mother’s car.

An “intimate” and “heartfelt” look into the “experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped form him,” according to Prince Harry’s memoir, which will be published on January 10th.

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