Prince Harry 60 Minutes Spare Interview Revelations
Prince Harry Believed Princess Diana Was Still Alive a Decade After Her Death
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Harry recounted how, as a child, he believed that Princess Diana's death was all an elaborate plot to escape the media and that she was still alive. "I just refused to accept that she was — she was gone. Part of, you know, she would never do this to us, but also part of, maybe this is all part of a plan," he said. He added that he thought she had just disappeared for a time and "would call us and . . . we would go and join her." He mentioned that William had similar thoughts. "I had huge amounts of hope," Harry said.
It wasn't until Harry was 23 years old and given the opportunity to see the police files about the investigation into Diana's death while visiting Paris that he began to accept his mother was truly gone. He said he wanted "proof that she was in the car, proof that she was injured, and proof that the very paparazzi that chased her into the tunnel were the ones that were taking photographs — photographs of her lying half dead on the back seat of the car."