Prince Harry praises mother Diana's legacy in fighting HIV

The Duke of Sussex has said the combat against HIV was a "big portion of my mum's legacy", successful a connection marking the 40th day of the Terrence Higgins Trust intersexual wellness charity.

Prince Harry, recalling his parent Princess Diana's ground-breaking awareness-raising efforts, said helium was arrogant "to proceed her advocacy".

He said Diana had shown empathy for those with HIV astatine a clip of "fear".

At the tallness of the epidemic, she made high-profile visits to HIV patients.

"Like many, my parent grew up successful a satellite wherever HIV was apt a decease sentence," wrote Prince Harry successful a connection to the charity.

"Yet, successful the midst of each that uncertainty, she led with empathy, uncovering the humanity successful each astir her and demonstrating the powerfulness of transportation successful the look of fear."

Prince Harry said the extremity was to extremity transmissions of HIV - and emphasised the value of investigating and "eradicating stigma".

"Though the past 40 years person shown important progress, we cannot dilatory down now, we indispensable decorativeness the job," wrote Prince Harry, successful a connection to the Terrence Higgins Trust.

Leaders of the foundation person antecedently spoken of the large value of Princess Diana's relation successful tackling the taboos astir HIV and Aids-related illnesses successful the 1980s.

Former main enforcement Ian Green described her "momentous interaction connected nationalist perceptions of HIV".

"With each gloveless handshake and each hug, she helped to situation the hysteria and fearfulness which was rife astatine the time," said the foundation head.

"HIV does not marque radical unsafe to know," Diana had said erstwhile opening the UK's archetypal specializer HIV/Aids ward successful London successful 1987. "You tin shingle their hands and springiness them a hug,"

Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, highlighted his large consciousness of unresolved grief aft Diana's decease successful a car clang successful Paris successful 1997, erstwhile helium was 12.

In an online interrogation connected Saturday with a trauma expert, Prince Harry spoke of his fears that therapy would mean "losing the feeling that I had of my mum... immoderate I had managed to clasp onto of my mother".

Prince Harry said that increasing up helium had ever "felt somewhat antithetic to the remainder of my family... and I cognize that my mum felt the same".

Since it emerged that Prince Harry and his woman Meghan would beryllium invited to his father's coronation successful May, determination has been overmuch speculation astir whether the mates volition attend.