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6th January 2023
09:15am GMT
“As the car entered the tunnel I leaned forward, watched the light change to a kind of water orange, watched the concrete pillars flicker past. I counted them, counted my heartbeats, and in a few seconds we emerged from the other side.
“I sat back. Quietly I said: Is that all of it? It’s… nothing. Just a straight tunnel.
“I’d always imagined the tunnel as some treacherous passageway, inherently dangerous, but it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel. No reason anyone should ever die inside it.”
After an inquest into the Princess of Wales' death, it was found that the car was travelling at between 60mph and 65mph, twice the speed limit on the road, and struck the 13th pillar of the westbound carriageway in the underpass.
Harry admitted in his book that he believed the drive would "bring an end, or brief cessation” to a “decade of unrelenting pain”.
He adds: “It had been a very bad idea. I’d had plenty of bad ideas in my 23 years, but this one was uniquely ill-conceived.
“I’d told myself that I wanted closure, but I didn’t really.”
