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Charles ‘was there for us’ when Diana died, says Prince Harry

Diana, Princess of Wales with her son Prince Harry, 1995 (Martin Keene/PA Wire)
Diana, Princess of Wales with her son Prince Harry, 1995 (Martin Keene/PA Wire)

 

PRINCE HARRY has paid tribute to the Prince of Wales for the parental care he showed to his sons in the aftermath of Diana, Princess of Wales’ death, describing how he was “there for us”.

Harry’s words of praise come in a BBC documentary where he also appears to confirm Charles broke the terrible news to the royal brothers that their mother had been killed in a Paris car crash.

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Anthony Devlin - WPA Pool / Getty Images)
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Anthony Devlin – WPA Pool / Getty Images)

 

The prince was in a state of “disbelief” and said he refused to accept his mother’s death while older sibling the Duke of Cambridge felt “completely numb” and asked himself the question “why me?”, the programme reveals.

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William and his brother have spoken candidly about their grief and Diana’s death in the run up to its 20th anniversary, August 31, in a series of high profile interviews and documentaries, but until now have not spoken of their father’s role.

Harry, who at the time was holidaying at Balmoral with his brother, father, the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, said: “One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

“How you deal with that I don’t know but, you know, he was there for us.

“He was the one out of two left and he tried to do his best and to make sure we were protected and looked after.

“But, you know, he was going through the same grieving process as well.”

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The documentary Diana, 7 Days is screened on Sunday and chronicles the days after the princess’ death in 1997, featuring contributions by some of the major figures at the time including former prime minister Tony Blair and other Government figures, senior royal aides, Diana’s brother Earl Spencer and her friends.

The Queen faced criticism from the press and public for not returning from her Scottish estate of Balmoral to London quickly enough to acknowledge the huge outpouring of grief following the fatal car crash, that also claimed the lives of Diana’s lover Dodi Fayed and the driver Henri Paul.

William said: “At the time, you know, my grandmother wanted to protect her two grandsons and my father as well.

“Our grandmother deliberately removed the newspapers and things like that, so there was nothing in the house at all, so we didn’t know what was going on.”

He added: “We had the privacy to mourn and kind of collect our thoughts and to try and just have that space away from everybody.”

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