Prince Harry claims he did not receive a hug from his father, King Charles III, after the tragic death of his beloved mother, Princess Diana.
“Dad didn’t kiss me. He wasn’t good at showing his emotions under normal circumstances, how could he be expected to show them in such a crisis? the Duke of Sussex, 38, writes in his new memoir, “Spare”.
“His hand fell once again on my knee and he said, ‘It’s going to be fine. It was a lot for him. Fatherly, hopeful, kind. And so wrong.
Harry goes on to detail the conversation he had with his father after his mother died in 1997. He was only 12 at the time of his death.
“[Dad] sat on the edge of the bed. He put a hand on my knee. “Honey boy, mum had a car accident,” Harry recalled in his memoir.
“I remember thinking: Crash… OK. But is she okay? Yes? I remember very well this thought that crossed my mind. And I remember waiting patiently for dad to confirm that mom was indeed fine. And I remember he didn’t do that.
Harry explains that he then began to feel an “internal shift” when he knew what was coming next.
“I started to silently plead for Pa, or God, or both: no, no, no,” he shares.
The Duke of Sussex also details how his father, 74, told him about medical ‘complications’ and a ‘head injury’ that arose after Princess Diana was in a car accident in the Pont de l’Est tunnel. Alma in Paris.
Harry admits he didn’t initially believe Princess Diana was actually dead.
Harry admits he didn’t initially believe Princess Diana was actually dead.
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“‘Mum was pretty badly injured and taken to hospital, darling,'” Charles said, according to Harry. “He always called me ‘sweet boy’, but he said it a lot now. His voice was soft. He was in shock, it seemed.
Harry says he still believed the doctors could somehow ‘fix her head’ and that he could see her ‘latest tonight’.
“They tried, my darling boy. I’m afraid she didn’t survive,” Harry recalls, remembering his father telling him. Those phrases stick in my mind like a dart in a board. He said it like that, I I’m sure of it. She didn’t succeed. And then everything seemed to stop.
Harry also remembers breaking down at his mother’s funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 6, 1997.
Harry recalls being “ashamed” of crying at his mother’s funeral.
Harry recalls being “ashamed” of crying at his mother’s funeral.
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Harry recalls being “ashamed” of crying at his mother’s funeral.
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My body convulsed and my chin dropped and I started sobbing uncontrollably into my hands. I was ashamed of violating family ethics, but I couldn’t hold back any longer,” he wrote.
Although he attended the funeral and find out about the “official” events of the accidentHarry found himself convinced his mum had ‘staged an accident’ to get out of her ‘miserable’ life in the spotlight.
Harry first convinced himself that his mother’s death was just a rose.
Harry first convinced himself that his mother’s death was just a rose.
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Harry was then asked to write a “last” letter to his mother. He says that’s when he really understood that she was gone for good.
“I would have liked to dig deep, tell my mother all the things that weighed on my heart, especially my regret for the last time we spoke on the phone,” he wrote. “She had called early in the evening, the night of the accident, but I was running around with Willy and my cousins and I didn’t want to stop playing.
So I had been short with her. Impatient to resume my games, I rushed Mom out of the phone,” he continued. “I would have liked to apologize for that. I wish I had searched for the words to describe how much I loved her. I had no idea the search would take decades.
In “Spare”, which arrives in American libraries on Jan 10, Harry also goes into details about his life Strained relationship with his brother, Prince William, live his life as a “Spare” for the “Heir”, and Charles joking about who his “real” father is, among so many other stories.
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