Prince Harry admits he and William spent “years” questioning whether or not the demise of their mom, Princess Diana, was an elaborate escape plan, and that she would in the future emerge unscathed.
The Duke of Sussex – who was solely 12 years previous when Diana died in 1997 – made the revelation throughout an interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes on Monday, following the discharge of explosive excerpts from his Spare memoir.
Sitting down with the US journalist, Harry stated he carried the assumption Diana had “a plan” to vanish for some time effectively into maturity.
He advised Cooper he believed this conspiracy for “many, many years” and that William had “similar thoughts”.
Eventually, when Harry was 20 years previous, he requested to see the police report into the crash that killed his mom for “proof that she was in the car”.
He stated the report contained footage that proved the paparazzi who chased her into the tunnel have been the identical individuals who then took photographs of her “lying half dead on the back seat of the car”.
Reading an excerpt from Spare, Anderson requested: “You write; ‘I hadn’t been aware before this moment that the last thing Mummy saw on this earth was a flashbulb,’ … That’s what you saw in these pictures?”
Nodding, Harry responded: “The pictures showed the reflection of a group of photographers taking photographs through the window, and the reflection on the window was them.”
Harry went on to elucidate that whereas there have been “more gruesome” photographs of his mom within the report, his personal secretary on the time discouraged him from them.
“I will be eternally grateful to him for denying me the ability to inflict pain on myself by seeing that, because that’s the kind of stuff that sticks in your mind forever.”
Originally printed as Prince Harry says he and William believed Diana’s demise was a hoax ‘for years’
