--- title: Prince Harry on Mother's Death Interview description: In a new documentary, 'Prince Harry in Africa,' the British royal shares his struggle dealing with grief and his work with his charity. canonical: https://time.com/4606478/prince-harry-on-princess-di-death/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-19T16:33:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:37.324Z og:title: Prince Harry Opens Up About Carrying On His Mom's Legacy og:description: In a new documentary, the royal shares his struggle dealing with Diana's death. og:url: https://time.com/4606478/prince-harry-on-princess-di-death/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43be331edcb6304f/6988b36a97cdff27326aeefe/prince-harry-sentebale.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Prince Harry ICAP Charity Trading Day In Aid Of Sentebale og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince Harry Opens Up About Carrying On His Mom's Legacy twitter:description: In a new documentary, the royal shares his struggle dealing with Diana's death. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43be331edcb6304f/6988b36a97cdff27326aeefe/prince-harry-sentebale.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Prince Harry Opens Up About Carrying On His Mom's Legacy: 'It Was a Lot of Buried Emotion'  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 19, 2016 4:33 PM CUT  Prince Harry attends the ICAP's 24th annual charity trading day in aid of Sentebale at ICAP on December 7, 2016 in London, England. Prince Harry attends the ICAP's 24th annual charity trading day in aid of Sentebale at ICAP on December 7, 2016 in London, England.Mark Cuthbert—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 19, 2016 4:33 PM CUT It’s been a big year for Prince Harry: the infamous royal has spent his time [traveling to support charity initiatives](http://time.com/4406061/prince-harry-hiv-test-facebook-live/?iid=sr-link2 "undefined"); has courted and publicly [announced his new girlfriend](http://time.com/4562242/prince-harry-meghan-markle-statement/?iid=sr-link3 "undefined"), Meghan Markle; and is now sharing some very personal reflections about what he went through following the death of his mother, Princess Diana, 19 years ago. In a new documentary produced to celebrate ten years [of the charity he set up](http://sentebale.org/?gclid=CjwKEAiAp97CBRDr2Oyl-faxqRMSJABx4kh9Bn3AxUk5b12RtKgVzTOiE5JWfjAMlVWp5OH2Vtn81BoCQI7w%5FwcB "undefined") in her name, Harry opens up about the challenges he faced as a kid trying to processing the tragedy—and as a self-described “ginger white prince” trying to figure out how to carry on her legacy. “I never really dealt with what had happened. It was a lot of buried emotion. For a huge part of my life I didn’t really want to think about it,” he [says in _Prince Harry in Africa_](http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/745178/Prince-Harry-death-mother-Princess-Diana-paris-car-crash-buried-feelings "undefined"). “I used to bury my head in the sand and let everything around you sort of tear you to pieces.” The charity—called Sentebale—was set up a decade ago with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, who had also lost his mother; the two royals met during Harry’s gap year, a year that Harry says he spent trying to “do something that makes my mother proud.” It helps HIV-positive children in Africa live with the disease. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4606478/prince-harry-on-princess-di-death/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4606478/prince-harry-on-princess-di-death/"},"headline":"Prince Harry Opens Up About Carrying On His Mom's Legacy: 'It Was a Lot of Buried Emotion'","datePublished":"2016-12-19T16:33:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:37.324Z","description":"“For a huge part of my life I didn’t really want to think about it\"","url":"https://time.com/4606478/prince-harry-on-princess-di-death/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Charity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43be331edcb6304f/6988b36a97cdff27326aeefe/prince-harry-sentebale.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43be331edcb6304f/6988b36a97cdff27326aeefe/prince-harry-sentebale.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Prince Harry ICAP Charity Trading Day In Aid Of Sentebale","caption":"Prince Harry ICAP Charity Trading Day In Aid Of Sentebale","creditText":"Mark Cuthbert—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4606478/prince-harry-on-princess-di-death/","name":"Prince Harry Opens Up About Carrying On His Mom's Legacy: 'It Was a Lot of Buried Emotion'"}}]}] ```