Prince Harry reviewed Princess Diana’s remaining moments ten years after her dying.
The princess died in a automotive accident in Paris in August 1997, aged 36, and Harry has now revealed that through the Rugby World Cup in 2007, he truly drove via the identical tunnel the place the accident occurred.
In an excerpt from his new memoir ‘Spare’, which he has shared with PEOPLE, Harry explains: “The World Cup supplied me with a driver, and on my first night time within the Metropolis of Gentle I requested him if he knew the tunnel via which my mom…
“I watched his eyes within the rearview mirror, widening.
“The tunnel is known as Pont de l’Alma, I informed him.
“Sure, sure. He knew it.
“I wish to undergo it.
“Do you wish to undergo the tunnel?
“Sixty-five miles per hour, to be exact.
“Sixty-five?
“Sure.
“The precise pace Mother’s automotive was allegedly driving, in line with police, on the time of the accident.”
Earlier than getting into the tunnel, Harry imagined that it could be a “treacherous hall”. However in actuality, he discovered that it was fully completely different.
He recalled: “We went, weaving via the site visitors, throughout the Ritz, the place Mother had her final meal, along with her boyfriend, that August night time. Then we got here to the mouth of the tunnel. We stored going, we went over the sting on the tunnel entrance. , the pothole that supposedly swerved mother’s Mercedes.
“However the lip was nothing. We barely felt it.
“Because the automotive entered the tunnel, I leaned ahead, watched the sunshine change to form of an aqua orange, watched the concrete pillars go by. I counted them, counted my heartbeat, and inside seconds we have been out on the opposite facet .
“I sat up. In a low voice I stated: Is that each one? It is… nothing. Only a straight tunnel.
“I had all the time envisioned the tunnel as a treacherous, inherently harmful passageway, nevertheless it was only a quick, plain, easy tunnel.
“There isn’t any purpose for somebody to die inside it.”
Harry, 38, truly discovered a level of “closure” after touring via the tunnel, though it wasn’t fairly as he imagined.
He stated: “I informed myself I wished closure, however I actually did not. Deep down, I anticipated to really feel in that tunnel what I felt when JLP gave me the police information: disbelief. Doubt. As a substitute, that was the night time when all doubts disappeared.
“She’s lifeless, I believed. My God, she actually is gone perpetually.”
“I obtained the closure I used to be aiming for. I obtained it in spades. And now I might by no means eliminate it.”