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Prince Harry lost his mother when he was a child.
Prince Harry (38) lost his mother at the age of twelve. He didn’t even believe in the death of Princess Diana (1961-1997). The Duke of Sussex suspected a great deception behind it. This is reported by the celebrity portal Pagesix with reference to Harry’s biography “Reserve”, which will be in stores on January 10, but has already gotten into the hands of the press.
Diana died in a tragic car accident in a Paris tunnel. When his mother died, Harry was with his brother Prince William (40) at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with his grandparents: Queen Elizabeth II († 96) and Prince Philip (1921-2021). “Having nothing to do but roam the castle and talk to myself, a suspicion arose, which then became a firm conviction,” says Harry.
“She was persecuted, humiliated and lied to”
His guess: Diana was actually still alive. “I thought the accident was just a trick. For the first time, however, it wasn’t the people around me or the press who were tricking me, but my mummy.” Harry thought she was trying to get away from the media hype. “Her life was miserable. She was persecuted, humiliated and lied to. So she faked an accident and ran away,” he said.
Years later, Harry writes, he asked his publicist to look at secret police files on Diana’s accident and look at the detailed photos. “There were lights around them, auras, almost halos,” he writes. “When I realized its true origin, my stomach clenched.” There were flashes from paparazzi. He makes it clear he is furious with the paparazzi for neglecting to help her, adding: “Until this moment I was unaware that the last thing Mummy saw on this earth was a flashing light .»
It was recently revealed that Harry has traveled his mother’s death route. He was surprised at how normal the tunnel was. “I had always imagined the tunnel as a treacherous passage.”
Prince Harry was not allowed to show any emotions in public
In a trailer from an interview with ITV, Harry also reveals that he and his brother Prince William felt at the time that they weren’t allowed to show emotion when meeting mourners in public. He explains: “I cried once, at the funeral, and you know that I describe at length (editor’s note in his book ‘Reserve’) how strange it was and how guilty I felt. I think William felt guilty as well when we were walking around outside Kensington Palace.”
Contrary to the mourning crowd, the two princes did not publicly express their feelings. “There were 50,000 bouquets for our mother and we shook people’s hands, smiled… We couldn’t understand why the hands we shook were wet. But it was all the tears that she wiped away,” he says. Harry vividly recalls the collective grief in Britain after Diana’s death: “Everyone thought and felt that they knew our mother. But the two people closest to her, the two people she loved the most, were unable to show any emotion at that moment.” (bsn/bang)