Prince Harry Explains Why He Asked to See Photos of Princess Diana’s Car Crash Following Her Death: ‘I Was Looking for Something to Hurt’

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Prince Harry discussed his unexpected attempts at coping with Princess Diana‘s death.“I saw the photographs of the reflection of all the paparazzi in the window at the same time,” the Duke of Sussex, 38, said during his ITV interview on Sunday, January 8, while promoting his memoir, Spare. “I saw the back of her blonde hair, you know, slumped on the back of the seat.”Harry recalled feeling “grateful” that he didn’t see the more graphic photos from the 1997 incident. “But I was, I think I, at that point, I was looking for evidence that it was after that it actually happened, that it was true,” he added. “But I was also looking for something to hurt because at that point I was still pretty numb to the whole thing.

That was, again, my body, my sort of nervous system just kind of shut down and said like, ‘Let’s not.'”The U.K. native was 12 when the late Princess of Wales passed away at age 36.

In his memoir, Harry revealed he asked to drive through the tunnel where his mother died.“Off we went, weaving through traffic, cruising past the Ritz, where Mummy had her last meal, with her boyfriend, that August night.

Then we came to the mouth of the tunnel. We zipped ahead, went over the lip at the tunnel’s entrance, the bump that supposedly sent Mummy’s Mercedes veering off course,” he wrote in the book, which will be released on Tuesday, January 10. “But the lip was nothing.