Prince Harry has said he is 'very glad' he joined the funeral cortege for his mother, Princess Diana, despite previously describing the experience as something no child should be asked to do. In a BBC interview, he said he does not have an opinion on whether the decision was right or wrong, but looking back he is glad to have been part of the day.
Harry and his brother, Prince William, have spoken in a series of interviews leading up to the 20th anniversary of Diana's death on 31 August. William described walking behind the coffin as 'one of the hardest things I've ever done', recalling using his fringe as a 'safety blanket' during the 'very long, lonely walk'.
The princes were joined by their father, the Prince of Wales, grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, and uncle, Earl Spencer, in the procession through London. Harry paid tribute to his father for the way he took care of them after Diana's death, saying: 'One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died. How you deal with that I don't know but, you know, he was there for us.'
Harry also spoke about the paparazzi, saying: 'One of the hardest things to come to terms with is the fact that the people that chased her into the tunnel were the same people that were taking photographs of her while she was still dying on the back seat of the car.' The princes described seeing their mother deeply distressed after run-ins with photographers, who waited in 'a pack' for her 'every single time she went out'.
