Head bowed and fists clenched, a then 12-year-old Harry marched in the funeral procession behind his mother’s coffin for the world to see.
“I don’t think any child should be asked to do that, under any circumstances,” the Prince said of one of the darkest moments in the Royal family’s history.
Flanked by older brother, Prince William, father, Prince Charles, grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, and his uncle, Charles Spencer as they walked through the heart of London on September 6, 1997, Harry was just a child when Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris. She was just 36.
"My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television," he told Newsweek magazine.
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i would like the privileges it would have but no
My heart broke for those two boys. They showed amazing courage to do what they did but Harry is right, it should never have been forced upon them. How awful. I know it's also completely different but I find it awful that William and Catherine, in particular Catherine, have to show their newborns to the waiting media just 24 hours after birth. She has just had a baby, is no doubt beyond tired, no doubt incredibly sore, very likely teary and hormonal and she has to walk down steps (can anyone say ouch!) at the front of the hospital and have her photo taken for all the world to comment on?! Yuck. Give them their privacy.