even when you were in the same school in high school. sibling rivalry. your brother told you pretend dwoent we don t know each other. yeah. at the time it hurt. we re at the same school. i haven t seen you for ages. now we get to hang out together. he said, no, when we re at school, we don t know each other. but you re right, you hit the nail on the head. we had a very similar traumatic experience and then we dealt with it two very different ways. william tried to talk to you occasionally about your mom. but as a child you could not you couldn t respond? for me, it was never a case of i don t want to talk about it with you. i just don t know how to talk about it. i never, ever thought that maybe talking about it with my brother or with anybody else at that point would be therapeutic. in august 1997, harry and william were vacationing in scotland with their father. harry was 12, william 15.
in that multitasking, the brain work of that, that felt good to you? it felt like i was turning pain into a purpose. i didn t have the awareness at the time that i was living my life in adrenaline. and that was the case from page 12, from the moment that i was told my mom had died. you say, the war did not begin in afghanistan, it began in august 1997. the war for me, unknowingly, was when my mom died. who you flighted? myself. i had a huge amount of frustration and blame towards the british press for their part in it. even at age 12, at that young, you are feeling that way the british press? yes, to us, as kids, the british press is parked in our mother s misery, and we have a lot of anger inside that s luckily, i never expressed it. but i resorted to drinking
i didn t have the awareness at the thyme was living any life in adrenaline. en that was the case from age 12 from the moment i was told my mom died. you said war didn t begin in afrg. it began in august 1997. yeah. the war for me unknowingly was when my mom died. who were you fighting? myself. i have a huge amount of frustration and blame towards the british press for their part in it. even at 12? at that young you were feeling that toward the british press? yeah. it was obvious to us as kids the british press s part in our mother s misery. i had a lot of anger inside of me that luckily ni never expressed to nifrnlt but i resulted to drinking because i wanted to numb the feeling. i wanted to distract myself from whatever i was thinking. and i would, you know, result to drugs as well. harry admits he smoked pot
it was getting late in the city of lights. that last saturday in august, 1997. but sad white cap pace in paris were still bustling. the mulan ruch was aglow. rivers were teaming with for us, and the paparazzi was out in full force. because a special visitor was in town. in fact, the most famous women in the world. princess diana. for years, cameras had tailed her like sharks follow blood. and now, on this late, august night. the hunt was still on. as diana and her new lover, dodi al fayed sped away from the paparazzi who are in hot pursuit. suddenly, the driver made an
to compound the misery, a few days earlier, the queen had seen part of her favourite home, windsor castle, destroyed by fire. she was devastated. the fire seemed to symbolise the reversal of the royal family s fortunes difficulties which were exacerbated by a public row over who should pay for the repairs. but even worse was to follow. the death of the by now divorced diana, princess of wales in a car crash in paris in august 1997 was to provoke what, for the queen, was a shocking backlash against the monarchy. she d remained at balmoral with princes william and harry after diana died her priority had been to care for her grandsons. but to the grieving crowds outside buckingham palace and elsewhere, it seemed as though the royal family simply didn t care.