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Prince Harry says he's only cried once since Diana's funeral

Prince Harry has revealed that he’s only cried once since his mother, Princess Diana’s, funeral and couldn’t understand the public outpouring of grief at the time.

Speaking on the ITV documentary, Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, Prince Harry – who was 12-years-old when Diana passed away – said he has grief he needs to get out.

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"I was thinking to myself how is it so many people who have never met this women, my mother, can be crying and showing more emotion than I am?,” the Prince said during the documentary.

Prince Harry has revealed he's only cried once since Diana's death. Photo: Getty Images
Prince Harry has revealed he's only cried once since Diana's death. Photo: Getty Images
Harry was just 12-years-old when his mother passed away. Photo: Getty Images
Harry was just 12-years-old when his mother passed away. Photo: Getty Images

His brother, Prince William – who was 15-years-old at the time of Diana’s death - also said he was confused at his mother’s funeral and it took a while for it to register with him what had happened.

"It was like an earthquake…your mind is completely split and it took me a while for it actually to sink in,” he said.

“I just thought ‘my mother would not want me to be upset, be down, be like this’.

“Keeping yourself busy, at first, allows you to get through that initial shock phase.”

Prince William said he grew up believing having no mum was normal. Photo: Getty Images
Prince William said he grew up believing having no mum was normal. Photo: Getty Images
The princes were pictured walking behind Diana's hearse at her 1997 funeral. Photo: Getty Images
The princes were pictured walking behind Diana's hearse at her 1997 funeral. Photo: Getty Images

“I was so young, I grew up thinking not having a mum was normal. Thinking like that was pointless because it’s not going to bring her back.

“My way of dealing with it was to ignore it, not deal with it.

“The 10 years I was in the Army, I just dug my head in the sand and it was just white noise.”

Prince Harry then revealed that the first time he cried at his mother’s funeral was when her body was brought onto the island at Althorp Park in Northamptonshire at her family’s estate, where she is buried.

“The first time I cried was at the funeral on the island and probably only once since then,” he said.

“So there’s a lot of grief to get out there.”

Prince Harry said there is still a lot f grief he needs to get out there. Photo: Getty Images
Prince Harry said there is still a lot f grief he needs to get out there. Photo: Getty Images

It comes after the boys said they have deep regret over their last phonecall with their mother before she died.

Diana had phoned them that night, but the princes were playing with their cousins at the time so they didn’t speak for long.

It’s a decision that’s played on Harry’s mind ever since, with the royal saying, “I have to deal with that for the rest of my life.”

"I do remember regretting... for the rest of my life how short the phone call was," he says, "And if I'd known that was the last time I'd speak to my mother, the things I would have said to her..."

It comes after the boys revealed they regret the last conversation they had with Diana. Photo: Getty Images
It comes after the boys revealed they regret the last conversation they had with Diana. Photo: Getty Images

"Looking back on it now it is incredibly hard. Not knowing that was the last time I was going to speak to my mum, and how differently that conversation would have panned out if I'd had even the slightest inkling that her life was going to be taken that night."

Diana,Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy airs Sunday, 30 July, at 7pm only on Channel 7.

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