Prince Harry describes moment he visited site of Princess Diana’s fatal crash at 105kph | UK News

Prince Harry said he asked a driver to simulate his mother’s last journey in Paris – going through the tunnel where Princess Diana’s fatal crash took place at 105 km/h (65 miles). /hour).

Writing in his memoir, titled Spare, the Duke of Sussex said he was in the French capital to watch the 2007 Rugby World Cup semi-final when he made the request.

The highly-anticipated autobiography is due out next week, but Sky News managed to get a copy after it accidentally went up for sale early in Spain.

Inside, Prince Harry made some startling accusations about the Royal Family, along with shocking revelations about his own life, including his use of cocaine, how he was told about his mother’s car crash, and when he lost his virginity. .

In one passage, he describes being in Paris at the age of 23 and asking a driver to take him through the Pont de l’Alma tunnel at the same speed as the car carrying his mother when it crashed in September. August 1997.

He wrote that there was “no reason for anyone to die in the tunnel”, adding that driving was a “bad idea”.

“I told myself I was only doing this to close the chapter, but that is not true,” the duke wrote on page 188.

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“Deep down, what I hope to feel in that tunnel is exactly what I felt when JLP [a former palace press secretary] gave me police reports; mistrust. Suspect. However, that was the night when all doubts were dispelled. She’s dead, I thought. God, she’s really gone forever.”

He went on to explain that the next day, he called his brother, Prince William, to tell him what had happened, and the two decided to get through it together before going to battle. rugby final.

They then spoke about their mother’s accident for the first time, Prince Harry said, adding that they discussed releasing a statement and calling for an investigation into her death to be reopened.

‘Why did those paparazzi get off the bus so gently?’

“The final report is an insult. A pile of nonsense filled with factual flaws, where the absence of logic is conspicuous,” he wrote.

“Especially the summary conclusion, that our mother’s driver was drunk and therefore that was the sole cause of the accident.

“Even if that man had been drinking, even if he was drunk, he would have had no problem driving through such a short tunnel. Unless the paparazzi followed him and made him dazzled. Why did those paparazzi get off the bus so gently?”

He added that after talking with Prince Williamthey agreed on a number of questions they would call to be answered, but “the decision-makers prevented” them from taking any action.

The inquest into Diana’s death learned that her car was traveling at between 60 mph and 65 mph – about double the 31 mph (50 km/h) limit of the road. – when it hit the 13th column of the westbound lane in the underpass.

Sky News has reached out to Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace and neither will comment on the allegations.

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‘I want a family, not an organization’

The duke’s special book statement also came on the heels of the release of a second teaser clip of his upcoming ITV interview in which he declined to confirm whether he would attend the coronation. his father’s optical in May or not.

In an earlier clip, he was heard saying that he wanted his father and brother back, and wanted “a family, not an institution”.