{"id":137918,"date":"2021-09-06T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=137918"},"modified":"2021-09-06T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T17:31:51","slug":"william-and-harry-couldnt-understand-why-diana-funeral-mourners-were-so-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/william-and-harry-couldnt-understand-why-diana-funeral-mourners-were-so-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"William and Harry &#8216;couldn&#8217;t understand&#8217; why Diana funeral mourners were so upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Billions across the world watched on as young Prince William and Prince Harry mourned the loss of their mother Princess Diana 24 years ago. <\/p>\n<p> The loss of the People\u2019s Princess threw the nation into mourning with millions lining the street as the Royal Family held a procession from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey. <\/p>\n<p>Many remember the heartbreaking images of the brave young princes, aged only 15 and 12 at the time, walking composed behind their mother\u2019s coffin.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Apple TV+ series The Me You Can&apos;t See, Prince Harry opened up about how he is still haunted by the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Harry said: &quot;When my mum was taken away from me at the age of 12, just before my 13th birthday, I didn&apos;t want the [royal] life. Sharing the grief of my mother&apos;s death with the world.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24922071.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/3_Harry_William_Diana_Funeral.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>He added: &quot;For me, the thing I remember the most was the sound of the horses&apos; hooves going along the pavement. Along the Mall, the red brick road. By this point I was, both of us were in shock. It was like I was outside of my body and just walking along doing what was expected of me.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Showing one-10th of the emotion that everybody else was showing. I thought, &apos;This is my mum. You never even met her.&apos;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking the 2017 BBC documentary, Diana 7 Days, Prince William said: &quot;It was a very alien environment. I couldn&apos;t understand why everyone wanted to cry as loud as they did and show such emotion as they did when they didn&apos;t really know our mother.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24922076.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/2_Harry_William_Diana_Funeral.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24914720.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_Meghan-Markle-and-Prince-Harry-make-audacious-bid-for-UK-summit-with-the-Queen-after-months-of-rows.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Reports Palace &apos;ignored Harry and Meghan request to meet Queen and introduce Lilibet&apos;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&quot;I did feel a bit protective at times about that. I was like, &apos;Well, you don&apos;t even know\u2026 you didn&apos;t even know her, why and how are you so upset?&apos;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But now looking back over the last few years I&apos;ve learned to understand what it was that she gave the world and what she gave a lot of people.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that both Prince William and Harry were instructed not to cry by their father Prince Charles, it was revealed in ITV\u2019s Prince Harry\u2019s Story: Four Royal Weddings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24922067.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/4_Harry_William_Diana_Funeral.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24920374.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_Prince-William-is-the-villain-in-new-TV-show.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prince William is villain in controversial new show as he &apos;refuses to address racism&apos;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><b><b><b><b><i>For the latest breaking news stories and incredible tales from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking <\/i><\/b><i><b>here.<\/b><\/i><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although, Harry has since spoken of how glad he is to have participated in the funeral, despite being so young.<\/p>\n<p>Prince William also spoke about the decision as to why the two princes were involved so publicly in the funeral proceedings in Diana 7 Days and insisted, &quot;it wasn&apos;t an easy decision&quot; but was a &quot;collective family decision&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24922077.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/1_Harry_William_Diana_Funeral.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure data-mod=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article24907673.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_The-Queens-real-name-has-a-personal-meaning-but-she-rarely-uses-it.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Queen&apos;s real name is sweet tribute to royal ancestors &#8211; but she rarely uses it in full<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/@trinitymirrordigital\/chameleon-branding\/publications\/dailystar\/img\/logo-schema-dailystar.png\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He added: &quot;I just kept thinking about what she would want and that she&apos;d be proud of Harry and I being able to go through it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Princess Diana tragically died following a car crash in the Pont de l&apos;Alma tunnel in Paris on 31 August 1997, when her driver was fleeing the paparazzi.<\/p>\n<p>The crash also resulted in the deaths of her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver Henri Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/prince-william-harry-couldnt-understand-24922048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billions across the world watched on as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>William and Harry &#039;couldn&#039;t understand&#039; 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