Both the sons of Princess Diana have opened up about the shock and the mental trauma they faced after losing their mother in a tragic car crash in Paris in 1997.
Days after Prince Harry revealed that he had to undergo counselling to help come to terms with their mother’s death, his older brother said that the shock of losing his mother is still with him, 20 years after she was killed. The 34-year-old Duke of Cambridge revealed in a new BBC documentary to be aired tomorrow that the shock “never leaves you”.
“I still have shock within me — people say it can’t last that long but it does,” he told the ‘Mind over Marathon’ documentary, made to promote his support for mental health charities in the UK.
“The shock is the biggest thing (which) I still feel 20 years later, about my mother. You never get over it, it’s such an unbelievably big moment in your life that it never leaves you. You just learn to deal with it,” William said.
William said he wants people to speak more openly about mental health.
On Monday, Harry had said that he had to “shut down all his emotions” for almost two decades after losing his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.