Prince Harry says he turned alcohol and drugs in late 20s due to trauma triggered by loss of his mother

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Prince Harry has told how he spent years turning to alcohol and drugs to "mask" the trauma of loss.

The Duke of Sussex is heard speaking about his own mental health in his new Apple TV+ series with Oprah Winfrey. In the first three episodes of The Me You Can’t See, Harry addressed traumatic memories from his childhood including the moment he was famously photographed with his brother, father, uncle and grandfather walking behind Diana’s coffin at her funeral.

The prince was just 12 when Diana, Princess of Wales, died in August 1997 in a car crash in Paris. "For me the thing I remember the most was the sound of the horses’ hooves going along the Mall," the