--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 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=1200&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' > Sponsored content. 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Mark Cuthbert—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 19, 2016 4:33 PM UTC 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); has courted and publicly [announced his new girlfriend](http://time.com/4562242/prince-harry-meghan-markle-statement/?iid=sr-link3), 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) 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). “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'"}}]}] ```