- Prince Harry recalls holding back his tears at his mother’s funeral.
- Hundreds of mourners were overcome with emotion over Diana’s passing.
- Harry: “I wanted to cry, and I’d tried to, because Mummy’s life had been so sad”.
When Princess Diana passed away, Prince Harry recalled holding back his tears.
The Duke of Sussex describes meeting a sea of mourners at his mother’s funeral who were overcome with emotion over the Princess of Wales’ passing in his autobiography, “Spare.”
Harry writes: “Hundreds and hundreds of hands were thrust continually into our faces, the fingers often wet. From what? I wondered. Tears, I realized. I disliked how those hands felt. More, I hated how they made me feel. Guilty. “
“Why were all these people crying when I wasn’t—and hadn’t? I wanted to cry, and I’d tried to, because Mummy’s life had been so sad that she’d felt the need to disappear, to invent this massive charade. But I couldn’t squeeze out one drop. Maybe I’d learned too well, absorbed too deeply, the ethos of the family, that crying wasn’t an option—ever,” Harry noted.
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