Prince Harry has revealed further details about how he found out about the passing of his mother, Princess Diana.
In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Spare, and obtained by NBC News, the Duke of Sussex reveals that King Charles III broke the news to him and his then-15-year-old brother, Prince William, while they were at Balmoral in Scotland. Princess Diana, along with her lover, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. She was 36.
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Harry, who was only 12 at the time, recalls Charles telling him his mother had suffered head injuries and was probably not going to make it. At the hospital, she passed away. Harry claims that although Charles called him “my lovely son,” he did not give him an embrace.
“What I do remember with stunning clarity is that I did not cry. Not a tear. My father did not hug me,” Harry writes in the book.
Prior to the publication of his memoir in the US the following week, Harry has made a number of astounding revelations. After an outburst about Meghan Markle in 2019, Harry reportedly claimed that William, or “Willy,” as he calls him in his book, struck him bodily and left him with a visible injury on his back. One of the many bombshells he dropped in the book was his description of William as his “loving brother and archnemesis.”
