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  • Prince Harry keeping mother’s legacy as he meets group of Princess Diana Award honorees 

    Prince Harry keeping mother’s legacy as he meets group of Princess Diana Award honorees 

    Prince Harry is carrying on the legacy of his late mother by actively participating in her work.

    In a recent event, the 38-year-old Duke of Sussex pleasantly surprised a group of young people in California who were honored with the Diana Award, an organization dedicated to Princess Diana’s memory.

    The event’s host, Vee Kativhu, recently shared a short film documenting the remarkable interactions that occurred during the Conversations for Change seminar. In her caption, she expressed the significance of the event and its impact on those involved.

    “This conversation was so special and featured global Changemakers and also supporters of youth dotted around the room.”

    “We touched on social media, social justice, inequality and how to combat burn out while advocating for the incredibly important topics that many of the youth around the table have dedicated their lives to,” she added on Instagram.

    While the Conversations for Change meetings have taken place around the U.K. before, this was the first time the Diana Award had held an event in another country. Before the discussion kicked off in Los Angeles, Harry delighted four of this year’s Diana Award recipients by handing them their certificates. 

    “One of the things that struck me about even those four — even though they all do different things — was that their stories were really underpinned by the need for change,” Diana Award CEO Tessy Ojo, who was at the meeting, tells PEOPLE. “Driving change in inequality, particularly in education. This might be wanting to create better access to various forms of education. So it might be education around employability or education around or better healthcare.“

    “Really incredibly, it amazes me how young these young people are and how big the issues they’re tackling are,” she adds.

    Prince Harry The 2023 Diana Awards
    Prince Harry and Vee Kativhu at the seminar. THE 2023 DIANA AWARDS CEREMONY/YOUTUBE

    “On one hand. I hugely applaud them,” Ojo continues. “I also recognize that it also demonstrates the need to pull them into networks much more so that they feel supported because they’re carrying huge, huge burdens.”

    Harry’s California meeting took place as he and Prince William, 41, appeared in two separate videos for the annual Diana Awards in late June, just ahead of what would have been Diana’s 62nd birthday.

    During this event, the princes appeared in two separate videos to honor 189 young changemakers from 31 countries.

    Prince Harry The 2023 Diana Awards
    Prince Harry awarding the certificates. THE 2023 DIANA AWARDS CEREMONY/YOUTUBE

    On the day of the awards, William, 41, was introduced by former Diana Award Legacy Award winner Hannah Hodgson, who met the prince two years ago.

    “The Prince of Wales praised her and the other young people for the “challenges they have overcome” to reach this point. “What unites them is their courage, compassion and a relentless dedication to improving the lives of others,” he said.

    “Today, we recognize the power of all young people — the power to challenge the status quo, to confront injustice, and to inspire meaningful change.”

  • Prince Harry: I cried only once after mom’s death, there was this guilt I felt

    Prince Harry: I cried only once after mom’s death, there was this guilt I felt

    In response to the passing of his mother, Diana, the Princess of Wales, in 1997, Prince Harry has disclosed he cried just once.

    Prince Harry describes how he and Prince William were unable to express any emotion as they visited mourners in public in a new interview clip to promote the release of his autobiography Spare.

    He admitted to crying during his mother’s funeral to Tom Bradby of ITV.

    The Duke of Sussex said he had felt “some guilt” walking among crowds who left flowers outside Kensington Palace.

    The absence of Princess Diana in Prince Harry‘s life is highlighted as a theme throughout Spare.

    The book is not due to be published until 10 January, but extracts were leaked after some copies went on sale early in Spain. BBC News has obtained a copy and has been translating it.

    In the ITV interview, due to be broadcast on Sunday evening, Prince Harry said “everyone knows where they were” when his mother died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.He said he had looked back on the footage of him and his brother meeting mourners a few days later.

    “I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail [in Spare] about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt, and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace,” he said.

    “There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people’s hands, smiling…

    “And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.”

    Prince Harry adds: “Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment.”

    Spare includes details of Prince Harry’s walk behind his mother’s coffin at her funeral, where crowds reached out to him and how he felt unable to cry in public.

    He also writes about getting a driver to take him through the road tunnel in Paris where his mother died, hoping for closure from a “decade of unrelenting pain”.

    And he says his father did not hug him when he broke the news Princess Diana had died, sitting on his bed in Balmoral.

    A still of Prince Harry from the interview with ITV's Tom Bradby, the image showing his face and shoulders. He appears to be midway through speaking.
    Image caption, A number of sensational claims from Prince Harry’s autobiography Spare have leaked out ahead of its publication

    Prince Harry’s ITV interview will be the first of four broadcast appearances to be aired over the coming days to promote Spare. He also spoke to three US TV networks – Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes on CBS News on Sunday night, Michael Strahan of Good Morning America on Monday and Stephen Colbert on the Late Show on CBS on Tuesday.

    Among the other revelations in Spare are a claim by Prince Harry that he was physically attacked by his brother; information on how Harry lost his virginity; details about drug taking; and a claim he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan.

    A number of high-profile military veterans have criticised his claim of killing Taliban fighters.

    Ex-colonel Tim Collins, best known for delivering the Eve-of-Battle speech during the Iraq War in which he called on his officers to “show respect”, said Prince Harry had “badly let the side down” and “we don’t do notches on the rifle butt”.

    Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have both said they will not comment on the contents of the book.

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they would be stepping back from their senior royal duties in 2020, saying they intended to become financially independent.

    In February last year, they spoke to Oprah Winfrey about their difficult relationship with other members of the royal family, and a Netflix documentary.

    Source: BBC.com