Prince Harry says he’ll regret last conversation with Diana forever | Royal | News
Prince Harry has been incredibly open about the impact Diana, the Princess of Wales’ death had on his mental health, and he was just only 12 years old when his mum was tragically killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
The Duke of Sussex and his older brother, Prince William, have revealed numerous stories about Diana in the years that have passed since her death. The two princes were on holiday in Balmoral, the family estate, with their father and other members of the Royal Family, when they heard the upsetting news. In a 2017 documentary titled ‘Diana, Our Mother’, Prince Harry said he deeply regrets the last conversation he had with his mum. He revealed he was desperate to end the phone call so he could go and play outside. Harry said: “I can’t really, necessarily, remember what I said. But all I do remember is probably, you know, regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was. And if I’d known that was the last time I was going to speak to my mother – the things I would have said to her.”
William also revealed his personal thoughts in the documentary. He said: “I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy. You feel very, very confused. And you keep asking yourself, ‘Why me?’ All the time, ‘Why? What have I done? Why? Why has this happened to us?”
Harry also reflected on Diana’s funeral, which took place just days later. He said: “My mother had just died and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands watching me while millions more did on television. I don’t think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances. I don’t think it would happen today.”
William added: “There’s nothing like it in the world. There really isn’t. It’s like an earthquake has just run through the house and through your life and everything. Your mind is completely split. And it took me a while for it to actually sink in.”
The documentary was one of two commissioned by Prince William and Prince Harry to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of their mother.
Harry also reveals in his memoir, Spare, that he recreated the journey his late mother took through the Paris tunnel where the fatal car crash took place.
Harry writes that he had been invited to the French capital to attend the 2007 Rugby World Cup semi-final and had been provided with a driver.
He recalled: “I’d always imagined the tunnel as some treacherous passageway, inherently dangerous, but it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel,” Harry says, before adding that there was “no reason anyone should ever die inside it.”
He further wrote: “I’d thought driving the tunnel would bring an end, or brief cessation, to the pain, the decade of unrelenting pain. Instead, it brought on the start of Pain, Part Deux.”