Harry: ‘Outpouring of love I have only cried once since
PRINCE HARRY reveals that he has cried only twice since his mother’s death – a remarkable admission when set against the national outpouring of grief at the time.
Harry says his 12-year-old self was baffled by the fact that strangers who had never met his mother seemed to feel more deeply about her than he did.
After the Westminster Abbey funeral, Diana was laid to rest in a private service on an island on a lake at Althorp House, the Spencers’ ancestral home near Northampton.
‘The first time I cried was at the funeral on the island… and only since then, maybe once,’ recalls Harry.
‘So there’s a lot of grief that still needs to be let out.
‘It was very, very strange after her death, the outpouring of love and emotion from so many people who had never
even met her. There were William and I walking around Kensington Palace Gardens and the sea of flowers all the way from the palace gates. And I was thinking to myself, how is it that so many people that never met this woman – my mother – can be crying and showing more emotion than I actually am feeling?’
The royal family were initially criticised for being ‘out of touch’ with public grief after Diana’s death by staying in Balmoral. But after a few days, Charles brought his sons to London to see the tributes.