Prince Harry Opens Up About Princess Diana's Death

Prince Harry's emotional revelation about his mother Princess Diana it took years for him to open up about how her loss affected him and now he is sharing a powerful message ABC's Lama Hassan has more on that in London good morning to you Lama yeah good morning to you Lara and that powerful message Prince Harry is trying to drive home is this it's important to talk about grief and of course this comes after the prince revealing that it was only until three years ago that he was actually able to open up about his mother's death regretting staying silent Prince Harry speaking out revealing his struggle with talking about his late mother's death Harry was only 12 when the princess died in a tragic car crash in Paris while the world went into a very public mourning her youngest son says he bottled up his grief it's okay it's a sufferer and but as long as you talk about it it's not it's not weakness weakness is having a problem and not recognizing it and not Harry who served 10 years active duty in the British Armed Forces believes it's important to spread the message that mental illness can affect anyone you know whether you'll remember the royal family whether you're a soldier whether you're a sports star whether you're a team sport individual sport with your white van driver with your mother father a child it doesn't really matter everyone can suffer the now 31 year old Prince has joined forces with William and Kate to end the stigma around mental illness bullying and depression who the heads together campaign mental health is just as important as physical fashion the decision by this generation of Royals to talk about these kind of issues reminds many of Diana's legacy when we think about every day we will do everything we can to make sure that she's never forgotten and and carry on all of the special gifts as such that she hadn't that she portrayed what she was life I hope this a lot of my mother's talents are shown in a lot of the work that I do well the royal trio are trying to stamp out the stigma surrounding mental health essentially saying this it doesn't matter who you are it's okay to suffer but you have to talk about it Lara yes you do Lama thank you so much you

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Keywords: Prince, Harry, Princess, Diana, death, grieving, regrets, mother's

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Length: 2min 22sec (142 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 26 2016