Prince Harry recalled the moment King Charles informed him that his mother Princess Diana had been involved in a car crash in Paris, which tragically led to her death.

On August 31, 1997 Harry and his older brother William, who was just 15 at the time, learned that Diana, Dodi Al Fayed and their driver Henri Paul had been killed in an accident.

In his memoir Spare the Duke of Sussex opened up about Charles sitting on the edge of the bed, telling him the news with phrases that remain with him “like bullets in a dart board”.

He recalled that his father “looked at me in a funny way, a way he’d never looked at me before”, before explaining that he initially hoped Diana would recover.

Harry said of his thought process at the time: “She’s been taken to hospital, they’ll fix her head, and we’ll go and see her. Today. Tonight at the latest.”

However reality soon began to dawn on Prince Harry, as his father gently said to him: “They tried, darling boy. I’m afraid she didn’t make it”, reported The Mirror.

The Duke then recalled: “None of what I said to him then remains in my memory. It’s possible that I didn’t say anything. What I do remember with startling clarity is that I didn’t cry. Not one tear.”

His aunt Sarah, Diana’s sister, later gave Harry a lock of his mother’s hair in a little blue box after admitting she snipped some off when she went to see the late Princess in Paris.

 Follow us to see more useful information, as well as to give us more motivation to update more useful information for you.

Source: New York Post