This Sunday, January 8, two days before the release of his memoirs entitled Spare, the prince Harry spoke with journalist Tom Bradby for the channel ITV. He notably revealed to him this exchange loaded with dark humor that he had with his brother William during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, who died last September: “We thought that at least we already knew the way“. A sentence that directly alludes to the funeral of their mother, Princess Diana, which was held on September 6, 1997.
For the Duke of Sussex, saying goodbye to his grandmother and his mother was two sensations “very similar“. The only difference being “the degree of emotionhe however clarified, before adding: “Because our grandmother had finished her life. There was more, I think, celebration and respect and recognition of what she had accomplished. While our mother was taken far too young“.
a lot of sadness
Note that the father of Archie and Lilibet, who has not stopped talking about him in recent weeks for his remarks about his family in the Netflix documentary Meghan and Harrypaid tribute to the monarch just after her death, on her official website: “Grandma, if this last goodbye brings us much sadness, I will always be grateful for our first times, my earliest childhood memories, the day you became my Commander-in-Chief, the day you met my beloved wife and the one where you kissed your great-grandchildren for the first time“.
In the pages of his memoirs, Spare, expected this January 10, Prince Harry returns many times to the death of his beloved mother Diana. Especially on the day when King Charles III, still a prince, had to announce the tragic news to them. And his way of doing things was not the most tender, as the Duke of Sussex makes it known, he expected from his father a little more compassion and presence when he told them the bad news. “What I remember as clearly as possible is that I didn’t cry. Not a single tear. And that my father didn’t take me in his arms“, he notified. Then: “I remember the King staring at the duvet, duvet and sheets of the bed we were on.” “I remember him telling us there were ‘complications’ after she was seriously injured“, concluded the husband of Meghan Markle.