Prince Harry talks about losing his mom, Princess Diana at 12

The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry opened up about the death of his mother, Princess Diana in an emotional sit down shared Scotty’s Little Soldiers earlier this week.

PRINCE HARRY OPENS UP ABOUT LOSING MOM

Scotty’s Little Soldiers shared a video of an emotional sit down between Prince Harry and the charity’s founder Nikki Scott. Prince Harry chatted to Scott about the effect of bereavement on children, and he opened up about losing his mom, Princess Diana.

Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, France on 31 August 1997. At the time, the Duke of Sussex was just 12 years old. He expressed that a lot of kids do not like speaking about the loss of the parent because it makes them sad.

“You convince yourself that the person you’ve lost wants you, or you need to be sad for as long as possible to prove to them that they are missed. But then there’s this realisation of, no they must want me to be happy,” said Prince Harry according to Hello Magazine.

Scott then said that Scotty’s Little Soldiers teaches bereaved military children to celebrate their parent’s life. He went on to express that it is important not to supress emotions of grief.

“That’s the hardest thing, especially for kids, I think, which is, ‘I don’t want to talk about it because it will make me sad, but once realising if I do talk about it, and I’m celebrating their life, then actually, things become easier,” he continued.

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This comes after Prince Harry revealed that he only cried once after his mother’s passing. The Duke of Sussex explained that this was at the burial, in an interview with Tom Bradby in January 2023.

“I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail [in Spare] about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt, and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace,” he said, according to BBC.

“There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people’s hands, smiling…And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away,” he continued.

Prince Harry went on to say that he and his brother, future King, Prince William were unable to show emotion in the moment.

“Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment,” he added.