Prince Harry says he was unable to cry as a child after his mother’s death.
Just a few days before the debut of Harry’s new memoir “Spare,” a snippet translated from a leaked Spanish version revealed an emotional revelation from the outspoken prince.
The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex admitted that he burst into tears for the first time about the death of his mother, Princess Diana, when his girlfriend at the time, Cressida Bonas, asked him about it.
“’It’s the first time I’ve been able to cry over my mother since we buried her,’” he admitted to Bonas.
Princess Diana, who was 36 years old, died in a 1997 tragic car crash in Paris, leaving her two children behind. Prince William was 15 years old and Prince Harry was 12.
In the book, Harry writes that he believed that his mother had been in hiding, which he admitted to his brother. The elder prince said that he had the same thoughts.
His father, now King Charles, was the one who told him that Princess Diana had died in a car accident. He shared that his father did not embrace him, but put his hand on his knee to comfort him and told him that things would be okay.
Crying over his mother made Prince Harry feel that he was somehow “indebted” to his then-girlfriend, Bonas, but according to him, the relationship was not meant to last. Bonas, who worked as an actress and model, did not want the stresses of being a royal, and Harry also struggled with asking her about it. The two met through Prince Harry’s cousin in 2012 and they broke up two years later.
Prince Harry famously married Meghan Markle in 2018 and Bonas married Harry Wentworth-Stanley, a property investor, in 2020.