Harry ‘affected more’ than William by Diana’s funeral says Biggins

Prince Harry revealed he once “drew strength” from his older brother, Prince William on the “worst day” of his life, which was his late mother Princess Diana’s funeral.

The Duke of Sussex made the revelation in his tell-all memoir, Spare. Harry was nearly 13 years-old and William 15 when they both had to walk together behind the late Princess of Wales’s coffin during the procession to Westminster Abbey on September 6, 1997.

But the Duke recalled that there was an alternative option being considered which was eventually dismissed.

He wrote: “Willy would walk alone. He was 15, after all,” Harry wrote. “Leave the younger one out of it. Spare the Spare.

“This alternative plan was sent up the chain. Back came the answer. It must be both princes. To garner sympathy, presumably.

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“Uncle Charles [Spencer] was furious. But I wasn’t. I didn’t want Willy to undergo an ordeal like that without me.

“Had the roles been reversed, he’d never have wanted me—indeed, allowed me—to go it alone.”

Harry also spoke about his feelings during the macabre walk alongside their father King Charles, grandfather Prince Philip and their uncle Charles (Diana’s brother).

He explained: “I remember feeling numb.

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“I remember clenching my fists. I remember keeping a fraction of Willy always in the corner of my vision and drawing loads of strength from that.

“Most of all I remember the sounds, the clinking bridles and clopping hooves of the six sweaty brown horses, the squeaking wheels of the gun carriage they were hauling.

“(A relic from the First World War, someone said, which seemed right, since Mummy, much as she loved peace, often seemed a soldier, whether she was warring against the paps or Pa.)”

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