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Prince Harry has revealed that he only cried once over the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
The Duke of Sussex said he felt she was “incapable of showing any emotion” in public after her death in 1997, and had shed only tears when she was buried.
The 38-year-old told ITV’s Tom Bradby he felt “some guilt” as he waved to the crowds that gathered to pay their respects to his mother outside Kensington Palace.
He made the claim as part of an interview with Bradby during the publicity campaign for his memoir, Spare, which leaked before the weekend.
Prince Harry pictured with his brother, Prince William, and their father, Prince Charles, at Princess Diana’s funeral.
Harry, pictured here with his mother in Spain in 1987, told ITV’s Tom Bradby that he had only cried once over Diana’s death.
In a clip from the interview, which will air on ITV1 at 9pm tonight, the Prince said: “I cried once, at the funeral, and you know I go into detail.” [in Spare] about how strange it was and how I actually felt some guilt, and I think William did too, walking outside Kensington Palace.
‘There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers for our mother and there we were shaking hands with people, smiling…
“And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t understand why her hands were wet, but it was all the tears that were being wiped away.”
He added that everyone knew “where they were or what they were doing the night my mother died.”
“Everyone thought and felt that they knew our mother, and the two people closest to her, the two people most loved by her, couldn’t show any emotion at that moment,” he said.
Harry often speaks about the loss of his mother in his new memoir, which was published early last week in Spain.
In the book he wrote about how his father, who was then the Prince of Wales, sat him on a bed before breaking the news.
He said Prince Charles called him “my dear son” before telling him his mother was unlikely to survive the head injuries sustained in the crash in Paris in the early hours of August 31, 1997.
He paints the picture of an emotionally distant father, saying that Charles “was not good at expressing his emotions.”
He wrote: ‘What I do remember with astonishing clarity is that I did not cry. Not a tear. My father did not hug me.
Prince Harry (centre) stands between his brother and father as the hearse carrying his mother’s coffin prepares to leave Westminster Abbey after her funeral.
In the book, which MailOnline has obtained a copy of and is translating from Spanish ahead of its publication in the UK on Tuesday, the duke recalls asking to visit his mother while she was in hospital.
However, he says his father explained that she “hasn’t recovered any more”, before saying he was left alone in his room until the next morning.
He recalled that he and his brother William were banned from watching television so they wouldn’t see the news of the car accident.
In the memoir, he said that for a time he believed Diana had faked her own death and was “on the run” to escape her “miserable” life.
The duke said his 13-year-old self had wondered if it was a “trick”, writing in the book: “Her life has been miserable, she’s been bullied, bullied, lied to, lied to.” So he faked an accident as a distraction and ran away.
He later admitted that was not the case, but said that he returned to theory as a source of comfort.
In the memoir, which was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author JR Moehringer, Harry admitted trying to seal the deal by returning to the scene of his mother’s death.
The Princess of Wales had died along with her partner Dodi Fayed when their driver Henri Paul crashed their car into the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris.
Harry pictured with his mother and brother at the VE Remembrance Service in Hyde Park in 1995
The Duke of Sussex speaks often about his mother in his new memoir Spare, due to be published in the UK on January 10.
An inquest would later return a verdict of manslaughter, blaming Paul, who was drunk at the time and also killed in the crash, as well as paparazzi following the vehicle.
Harry says he had his chauffeur drive him at 65mph, the speed at which the accident occurred, through the tunnel repeatedly to experience what his final journey would have felt like.
Harry said the driver was surprised when he asked him if he knew the tunnel where his mother had died and asked him to take him through it.
The royal revealed that she barely felt a thing as she entered the tunnel, writing that it was: “The bump that supposedly sent mom’s Mercedes veering off course.”
He recounted how he counted the lights and the pillar inside the tunnel as his car whizzed by, but was surprised at how short the tunnel was when he got out.
Harry remembered imagining that the tunnel was a dangerous route, but was surprised to learn that it was a “simple tunnel”.
He recounted talking to William about the tunnel where his mother had died after he himself went through it.
The pair then agree to travel through it one more time, together, after which Harry says they talked about his mother’s accident for the first time.
Following an inquest into Diana’s death, Harry described the final report as “an insult” and “a mess” which he believed to be inaccurate.
Harry claimed his brother invoked his mother’s memory during a discussion about his interview with Oprah (pictured)
In the memoir, Harry claims that his brother invoked his mother’s memory during a discussion about his interview with Oprah.
The duke wrote that William grew hot as they talked after his grandfather Prince Philip’s funeral in 2021.
Harry claims he was trying to address the bullying allegations against Meghan, but his father and brother “were not listening”.
The California-based royal went on to claim that William was “really fuming” and grabbed him when he tried to walk away.
I waved a hand in disgust, but he lunged and grabbed my shirt. “Listen to me, Harold,” Harry wrote in his book, according to The Sun.
I pulled away, refusing to meet his eyes. She forced me to look into his eyes. “Listen to me, Harold, listen! I love you, Harold! I want you to be happy.”
Harry claims that he replied: ‘I love you too… but your stubbornness is extraordinary!’
The duke reportedly tried to walk away, but William allegedly “grabbed him again” and “twisted” him so the pair could maintain eye contact.
William then evoked the brother’s so-called ‘secret code’ and swore on Princess Diana’s life that his intentions were genuine, Harry wrote.
He writes that William said, ‘Harold, you must listen to me! I just want you to be happy, Harold. I swear, I swear on the life of mom.
Harry continued: ‘He stopped. I stopped. Dad stopped. He had gone there.
He had used the secret code, the universal password. Since we were children, those three words were to be used only in times of extreme crisis.
The Duke claimed that his brother was “not quite ready to accept defeat” and claimed to be “suitably sick and ill” from the tensions between the couple.
William allegedly reiterated: “I swear now on the life of Mommy that I just want you to be happy.”
Harry claims that his ‘voice cracked’ and he said ‘softly’ to William: ‘I really don’t think you do’.
The older brother reportedly hugged Harry and said, ‘I love you.’
MailOnline has approached representatives for William and Harry for comment.