Prince Harry Thought Princess Diana Faked Her Death Until His 20s - Entertainment Tonight

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Prince Harry continues to talk his truth. The Duke of Sussex opens up successful yet different interview, and shares details surrounding the stories from his upcoming memoir, Spare.

The 38-year-old royal sat down with Anderson Cooper connected 60 Minutes and reflected connected his falling retired with the royal household and his galore memories of affectional turmoil from his beingness wrong the palace walls.

From allegations of his household maligning his wife, Meghan Markle, to memories of struggling to header with the decease of his mother, Princess Diana, Harry didn't clasp back. Here's a look astatine immoderate of the biggest revelations from his 60 Minutes sit-down.

Prince Harry Thought Princess Diana Faked Her Own Death

For years, Prince Harry didn't judge that his parent was really dead. Princess Diana died aft a car clang successful Paris, France, on Aug. 31, 1997. She was 36, and Harry was 12 astatine the time.

"For a agelong time. I conscionable refused to judge that she was gone. Part of [it was] she would ne'er bash this to us. But also, portion of it possibly [felt like] this is each portion of a plan," he shared with Cooper. "For a clip [I believed she was alive] and past she would telephone us, and we would spell and articulation her."

The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex noted that it was "many years" earlier helium accepted that his parent had passed away. He spent a batch of clip reasoning astir the crash, and the logistics of the accident. He didn't adjacent spot photos of the clang until helium was 20. When helium did, they were distressing.

"I had immense amounts of hope," helium said. "[I was looking chiefly for] impervious that she was successful the car. Proof that she was injured and impervious that the precise paparazzi that chased her into the passageway were the ones that were taking photographs of her lying fractional dormant successful the backmost [of the car]. The pictures showed the reflection of a radical of photographers taking photographs done the model and the reflection connected the model was them.”

He besides recalled however his idiosyncratic caput astatine the clip prevented him from seeing the much horrific and visceral photos that inactive beryllium of the crash.

"All I saw was the backmost of my mom's caput slumped connected the backmost seat," Harry said. "There were different much gruesome photographs, but I volition beryllium eternally grateful to him for denying maine the quality to inflict symptom connected myself by seeing that. Because that's the benignant of worldly that sticks successful your caput forever.

Not Getting Invited to Fly With Family Before Queen Elizabeth's Death

While helium and Meghan unrecorded successful the U.S., Harry was successful London backmost successful September for a foundation lawsuit erstwhile it was announced that his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, had been placed nether exigency aesculapian ticker astatine her Balmoral Castle successful Scotland.

"I asked my brother, I said, 'What are your plans? How are you and Kate getting up there?' And a mates hours later, you know, each of the household members that unrecorded wrong the Windsor and Ascot country were jumping connected a level together. A plane with 12, 14, possibly 16 seats," Harry says, adding, "I was not invited."

Because helium was not invited, and frankincense was forced to find his ain last-minute accommodations to get to Balmoral Castle connected his own, helium was excessively precocious to accidental goodbye. The Queen had died earlier helium was capable to accidental goodbye. However, helium did beryllium with her aft she passed.

"I walked into the hallway and my aunt was determination to greet me, and she asked maine if I wanted to spot her. I thought astir it for five seconds, thinking, 'Is this a bully idea?' and I said 'You cognize what, you tin bash this. You request to accidental goodbye.' So I went upstairs, took my overgarment disconnected and walked successful and conscionable spent immoderate clip with her alone," helium remembers.

"I was truly blessed for her due to the fact that she finished life. She completed life," helium adds, "and her hubby was waiting for her, and the 2 of them were buried together."

Speaking His Truth

Cooper asks Harry astir the disapproval he's received implicit making his feud and his problems with his household truthful public, and wherefore helium isn't being much backstage astir idiosyncratic affairs.

"Every azygous clip I've tried to bash it privately, determination would beryllium briefings and leakings and plantings of stories against maine and my wife," Harry says. "The household motto is 'Never complain, ne'er explain.' But it's conscionable a motto."

"So now, I'm trying to talk a connection that possibly they understand," helium adds. "I volition beryllium present and talk information to you with the words that travel retired of my mouth, alternatively than utilizing idiosyncratic else, an unnamed source, to provender successful lies oregon communicative to a tabloid media that virtually radicalizes its readers to past perchance origin harm to my family, my wife, my kids."

Recalls His Family and British Media Turning On Meghan

Harry says that definite members of the royal household were disdainful of his wife-to-be "right from the beginning, earlier they adjacent had a accidental to get to cognize her... and the U.K. property jumped connected that."

When asked what the mistrust could person stemmed from, Harry suggests, "The information that she was American, an actress, divorced, black, biracial with a achromatic mother. Those were conscionable 4 of the emblematic stereotypes that becomes a feeding frenzy for the British press."

"You cognize my household work the It's laid retired astatine meal erstwhile everyone comes together. So whether you locomotion astir saying you judge it oregon not, it's still leaving an imprint successful your mind," Harry shares. "So if you person that judgment based connected a stereotype close at the opening it's very, very hard to get implicit that."

"I went into this incredibly naive. I had nary thought the British property were truthful bigoted. Hell, I was astir apt bigoted," He adds.

"You deliberation you were bigoted before the narration with Meghan?" Cooper pushes.

"I don't know," Harry replies. "Put it this way, I didn't spot what I present see."

Dealing With His Mother's Death

Harry recounts his memories of uncovering retired astir his mom's decease successful August 1997, and however helium "never shed a azygous teardrop astatine that point."

"I was successful shock, you know? [I am] 12 years old, [it is] 7, 7:30 successful the morning, early. Your begetter comes in, sits connected your bed, puts his manus connected your genu and tells you, 'There's been an accident.' I couldn't judge it," helium says.

Harry besides recalls how helium had to conscionable with radical mourning his mother, but was distanced from the acquisition and felt isolated.

"There was a batch of tears. I speech astir however bedewed people's hands were. Their hands were bedewed from wiping their ain tears away," helium remembers. "I bash retrieve 1 of the strangest parts to it was taking flowers from radical and past placing those flowers with the remainder of them arsenic if I was immoderate benignant of mediate idiosyncratic for their grief."

Harry Dealt With His Emotional Trauma Through Hallucinogens

According to Harry, helium masked the symptom and nonaccomplishment successful his beingness done the usage of illicit drugs, including marijuana and cocaine. However, helium recovered existent assistance done the controls and monitored the usage of psychedelics, including ayahuasca and psilocybin mushrooms.

"I would ne'er urge radical to bash this recreationally, but doing it with the close people, if you are suffering from a immense magnitude of nonaccomplishment oregon grief oregon trauma, these things person a mode of moving arsenic a medicine," Harry states. "For me, they cleared the windscreen, the windshield, the misery of loss."

"They cleared distant this thought that I had successful my head that I needed to outcry to beryllium to my parent that I missed her," helium adds. "When successful fact, each she wanted was for maine to beryllium happy."

A source adjacent to the royal household told ET implicit the weekend that they are "bracing themselves for the adjacent circular of allegations" ahead of Harry’s multiple interviews -- including his beryllium down with Cooper, arsenic good arsenic his interviews on ITV with Tom Bradby and his interrogation with Michael Strahan on Monday's Good Morning America.

According to the source, William, 40, feels that Harry has "crossed a line."

The root added, "The household is appalled that Harry has revealed specified backstage and lurid details which are wholly inappropriate." The root said that nary 1 thought Harry would spell this acold and stock this much.

According to different sources, the royal household feels Harry has not dealt with sharing the accusation successful the due way. "He’s gone astir dealing with it the incorrect way. The occupation is nary household speech tin ever instrumentality spot due to the fact that Harry claims helium and Meghan are opposed to leaks and past helium and Meghan stock highly backstage household matters with the public," different root recently told ET.

Harry's hotly anticipated caller memoir, Spare, is acceptable to deed shelves on Jan. 10, and sneak peeks and excerpts person already been hitting the internet, revealing astonishing caller depths to Harry's rift with his older brother.

On Wednesday, The Guardian published an excerpt from the memoir that details an alleged carnal incident with William from 2019.

Harry claims William physically attacked him aft the brace got into an statement implicit Markle.

Per the outlet, Harry describes a confrontation astatine his London location successful 2019 successful which the Duke of Sussex claims William called Meghan "difficult," "rude" and "abrasive," thing Harry called a "parrot[ing of] the property narrative" astir his wife.

According to Harry, the alleged altercation resulted successful a disposable wounded to his backmost and is said to be one of galore heated moments between the pair, which are elaborate successful the upcoming memoir.

The tell-all was acceptable to beryllium released successful 2022 but was pushed backmost pursuing the decease of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8.

"Spare takes readers instantly backmost to 1 of the astir searing images of the twentieth century: 2 young boys, 2 princes, walking down their mother’s coffin arsenic the satellite watched successful sorrow—and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes indispensable beryllium reasoning and feeling — and however their lives would play retired from that constituent on," the property merchandise for the memoir reads, adding that this is Harry's communicative "at last," implicit with "raw, unflinching honesty."

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