Prince Harry: Charles 'was there for us' when Diana died | ITV News

after notably failing to mention their father in last month's ITV documentary on Diana Prince's William and Harry have now spoken about the role Prince Charles played in the days immediately after their mother's death the brothers were at Balmoral when they were told what happened on that night in 1997 their father was said Harry there for us he tried to make sure we were protected he said and both Prince's support the decision of the Queen to keep them in Scotland away from the public and press and William describes feeling completely numb when he was told what had happened to his mother in Paris he'll either make or break you and I wouldn't let it break me I wanted it to make me I wanted her to be proud of the person I would become I didn't want her worried or her legacy to be that you know William and Harry were completing a few devastated by it the frenches also give their thoughts for the first time on the public displays of emotion which swept across the country during the week before Diana's funeral William says it was peculiar that people were as he puts it wailing in the streets when they'd never met his mother and he describes how people wanted to grab him and his brother they talked to of the decision to walk behind their mother's coffin William said it was the hardest thing he's ever done Harry said on reflection he is glad that he was part of it but still after 20 years there is anger about how some of the paparazzi treated Diana right up until the moment she died she'd had a quite a severe head injury but she was very much still alive on the back seat and those people that that caused the accident instead of helping we're taking photographs of her dying on the back seat and then those photographs made have made their way back to two news desks in this country next week Diana's sons will mark the anniversary here at Kensington Palace in the garden which has been created in her name recent polls have shown the focus on Diana has had a negative impact on her former husband Prince Charles however has been helped by the very public words of support from his youngest son Tripp ITV News you you

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Published: Wed Aug 23 2017