Prince Harry made a confession about the last time he saw his mother, Princess Diana, in his hit book ‘Spare’.
In his memoir, the Duke of Sussex gave a never-before-seen glimpse into life as a royal and his relationships with members of the Royal Family.
The title, Spare, is a nod to a comment Charles allegedly made to Princess Diana after she gave birth to their second son saying, “Now, you have given me an heir and a spare — my work is done”.
In the book, Prince Harry reveals that he regrets the last conversation he had with his mother.
He said their last interaction was a phone call on the day she died in 1997.
He wrote: “She’d called early in the evening, the night of the crash, but I was running around with Willy and my cousins and didn’t want to stop playing, so I’d been short with her.
“Impatient to get back to my games,” Harry says he rushed his mom off the phone and wishes he had apologised for it.
“I wished I’d searched for the words to describe how much I loved her,” he writes. “I didn’t know that search would take decades.”
Prince Harry was 12-years-old when his mother died in a car crash in Paris.
The princess, who was 36 at the time, died on August 31, 1997, along with her partner Dodi Fayed and the vehicle’s driver Henri Paul after the car they were travelling in crashed in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel.
The then-Prince Charles broke the news to Prince Harry and Prince William the next day – “They tried, darling boy, I’m afraid she didn’t make it,” Harry writes in his book.
“These phrases remain in my mind like darts on a board,” he continues.
He recalls how he didn’t cry until he saw his mother’s coffin lowered into the ground.
Today, Prince Harry lives in California with his wife Meghan Markle and his two children, Lilibet and Archie.
