Prince Harry reveals his son, Prince Archie asked to see emblematic images of Princess Diana

Although Princess Diana died 22 years before her grandson, Prince Archie was born in 2019, her father Prince Harry keeps his memory alive through one of the most poignant images of the end of the Princess of Wales never captured.

Harry revealed during the Invictus Games on February 9 that he had shown that Diana, videos of Meghan Markle, 5 years old, walking in a mines field in Angola in 1997, a few months before his death on August 31. According to The telegraphHarry showed Archie these emblematic images to help him “understand (the lasting impact of weapons of war”.

Harry also revealed on Sunday that Achie had asked to see photos and videos of the Mines de Terre promenade, saying to the Canadian TV channel CTV, “it’s difficult, because children do not always pose good Questions, then you stopped it right away – which I will never do – or you engage in the conversation and try to explain things. »»

“Archie asked questions about the terrestrial mines, so I was talking about the way some of these guys were exploded,” said Harry. “I think the IED (improvised explosive devices) are probably a little too much at this stage, but I found myself telling him about the mines at the age of five. Interestingly, it gave me a chance to talk about my mother, her grandmother, whom I did not really consider, so that has become the result of the story for him. »»

Harry added that “wanted to see videos and photographs from her grandmother Diana by doing her thing for terrestrial mines all these years ago. It produced a very interesting conversation between me and him, different from what I thought it would be. »»

In 2019 – by the same year, Archie was born – Harry retraced the footsteps of his mother in Angola in September, carrying a body armor and a protective visor as she had done in January 1997, seven months before His death in a car accident in Paris. Present a speech in the same place that Diana was photographed once, he said: “It was quite emotional to trace my mother’s footsteps … to see the transformation that took place, of a dangerous place and Sorry in a dynamic community. ”

Harry previously revealed in an interview in 2022 with TodayHoda Kotb that even if he does not tell Archie “everything that happened” in his family, he shows his son photos of “grandmother Diana”, which Harry and his wife Meghan keep around the Montecito’s house that they share with Archie and Princess Lilibet, 3.

Harry and Meghan are in Canada this week for the last iteration of Invictus Games, arriving in Vancouver on February 7. They have since traveled to Whistler, where winter sports take place for the first time in the history of the Invictus Games, which, which was founded by Harry in 2014.