Prince Harry Reveals He "Only Cried Once" At His Mother Diana's Funeral, Opens Up on "Guilt"
Prince Harry 'cried once' over Diana's death: Duke reveals he broke down in tears at mother's burial and felt 'guilt' meeting mourners outside Kensington Palace during ITV interview with Tom Bradby to be aired at 9pm. Prince Harry has revealed he only cried once over the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
In a new interview clip promoting the publication of his autobiography Spare, Prince Harry recounts how he and Prince William were unable to show any emotion as they met mourners in public. He told ITV's Tom Bradby he had cried when his mother was buried.
Sure enough, the queen bowed her head, the rest of the royal family bowed their heads, but the one person who remained ram-rod straight and barely acknowledged the passing of Diana's coffin was Princess Margaret, so even in death she would not forgive her.”
Above all we give thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to call my sister, the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.
Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.
'It's about the boys,' he cried, 'They've lost their mother. '”
According to royal experts, Princess Margaret felt as though Princess. Diana had turned her back on the royal family. by giving the infamous Panorama interview.
TheTalko website revealed how Margaret took her disdain for Diana to the late Princess' funeral, refusing to bow her head as the hearse drove past. The publication claimed: "Even though the story was true, Margaret could never forgive Diana for making the family look bad.
Meghan Markle has received praise online after a clip of her making a final curtsy to Queen Elizabeth II during her state funeral in September 2022 was uploaded to social media.
In the book, referring to Diana's death, Harry said he thinks that he is unable to cry in public because of his family's preference for not showing emotion. According to The Telegraph, Harry wrote, "I disliked the touch of those hands. What's more, I disliked how they made me feel: guilty.
It was August 1997 when Prince Harry's mother, Princess Diana, was killed in a car crash in Paris. Harry, 12 years old at the time, was at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with other members of the royal family.
But throughout Princess Diana and the then Prince of Wales's 20-year odyssey, there were moments of real affection, no matter how fleeting. “We fell in love gradually,” Princess Diana told biographer Andrew Morton. “It wasn't really dramatic. One blink and it would have gone.”
King Charles 'deeply regrets' this about Princess Diana's funeral: 'Haunts him'
Diana was buried later that day in a private ceremony in Althorp Park, the Spencer family estate. She was wearing a black woolen long-sleeved cocktail dress by Catherine Walker that she had ordered only weeks before she died, and holding a set of rosary beads that were a gift from Mother Theresa.
On July 29, 1981, Charles and Diana got married. Camilla attended their wedding.
Princess Diana's BFF, Jemima Khan, is calling it like she sees it when it comes to her late friend's marriage to Prince Charles. And many royal watchers would agree with her assessment even though they probably prefer not to say it publicly: Diana and Charles' marriage was planned by palace insiders.
10 years ago on September 6, 1997, horses of the King's Troop were called on to carry out a final and solemn royal duty, conducting Princess Diana's casket from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey for her funeral. London's Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch also accompanied the cortege.
FOOTAGE has been captured of a man who appears to run forward and touch the Queen's coffin inside Westminster Hall.
That evening, she gave an address live on television — another departure from protocol for the death of woman with no official role. The queen appeared nervous, and while paying tribute to the princess, she hinted at the public anger at her silence and stoicism.
After receiving a state funeral, Lady Diana Spencer was laid to rest in a lead coffin. Lead lining a coffin keeps moisture out of the body and allows it to stay in place for an extended period of time.
As TIME pointed out, the royal family had been cool towards Diana even before her divorce from Charles, due to the attention she attracted from the tabloids. While the precise reasons for the coolness are “still ultimately a matter of speculation,” Lacey says, “there was no doubt it was there.
She's spotted crying at Heathrow airport upon his departure—not because she is sad, but because before he left, he had taken a phone call with Camilla Parker Bowles. “It just broke my heart,” she later recalled, according to Diana: In Her Own Words.
While Princess Diana and Prince Philip were not reported to have gotten along well (during her marriage to Philip, there were reports that he was "unkind" to her, according to CNN), behind closed doors, it appears he was there for Diana during the difficult divorce — to a degree at least.
"Since last Sunday's dreadful news, we have seen throughout Britain and around the world an overwhelming expression of sadness at Diana's death," the queen, dressed in black, said in a national televised address from Buckingham Palace. "We have all been trying in our different ways to cope.