Prince Harry has shared a devastating memory he has of his mother Princess Diana being unable to drive as she had tears in her eyes while being chased by the paparazzi.
The Duke of Sussex said he and his brother Prince William were in the car with her at the time when they were followed by up to five photographers on mopeds.
Speaking on his new documentary series The Me You Can’t See, Harry admitted the memory is the first thing that comes to mind when he thinks about his mum, who died in a car crash in 1997.
He said: “I always wanted to be normal. As opposed to being Prince Harry being Harry. It was a puzzling life.
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“But, unfortunately when I think about my mum the first thing that comes to mind is always the same one over and over again.
“Strapped in a car, with a seat belt across with my brother in the car as well and my mother driving being chase by 3, 4, 5 mopeds with paparazzi on.
“And then she was almost unable to drive because of the tears. There was no protection.”
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Harry added: “One of the feelings that comes up with me always is helplessness. Being a guy but being too young to help a woman, in this case your mother.
“And that happened every single day.”
In the documentary, which has been released on Apple TV, Harry opened about losing his mum, and how he felt when he had to walk behind her coffin at her funeral in front of the whole world.
He said: “It was like I was outside of my body and walking along doing what was expected of me. Showing one-tenth of the emotion everyone else was showing.
“Like, this was my mum? You’ve never even met her.”
He went on: “I was so angry with what happened to her and the fact there was no justice. At all. Nothing came from that. The same people who chased her into that tunnel photographed her as she was dying on the back seat of that car.”
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Harry admitted: “I don’t want to think about her, because if I think about her, I bring up the fact that I can’t bring her back and it’s just going to make me sad.
“What’s the point in thinking about something sad? What’s the point in thinking about someone you’ve lost and are never going to get back again?
“And I just decided to not talk about it.”
Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/prince-harry-says-desperate-diana-24155186