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In January 1997, just seven months before her passing, Princess Diana went to Angola to highlight the work being done by the HALO Trust. Diana famously walked through a field which likely contained active landmines. Those photos went around the world, and Halo’s work received a huge boost. The following year, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines won the Nobel Peace Prize. Diana’s younger son has followed in her path – Harry has worked with the Halo Trust for years, and he even went to Angola and walked on the same field as his mother. Well, Harry is in Canada this week for the Invictus Games, and he agreed to an interview with a Canadian TV channel. He ended up speaking about how he had a conversation with Archie about Diana, and Harry ended up showing Archie the footage of Diana in Angola.
The Duke of Sussex has shown his five-year-old son Prince Archie the famous footage of Diana, Princess of Wales, walking through a minefield. The Duke, 40, revealed at the Invictus Games on Sunday that Prince Archie had asked to see photos and videos of Diana’s landmine walk in Angola in 1997.
During an interview at a wheelchair basketball game, he told CTV, a Canadian television channel: “It’s hard because kids don’t always ask the right questions, so you either shut it down right away, which I will never do, or you engage in the conversation and try to explain things. Archie was asking about landmines so I was talking about how some of these guys were blown up.”
“I think IEDs [Improvised explosive devices] are probably a little much at this point but I found myself talking to him about mines when he was five years old. Interestingly, it gave me a chance to talk about my mum, his grandma, which I didn’t even really consider so that became the outcome of the story for him. He wanted to see videos and photographs of his grandma Diana out doing her thing for landmines all those years ago. It produced a very interesting conversation between me and him, different to what I thought it would be.”
One of the Princess’s lasting legacies was a high-profile trip to Angola in January 1997 as a guest of the International Red Cross, to raise global awareness of landmines.
That’s really beautiful, especially Harry admitting that he never really thought to talk to his kids about Diana through her work, and showing the kids photos of Diana in Angola. I know he has photos of Diana up in his home, but most of those photos are family pics or some of Diana’s most beautiful portraits. It must have been so special to find the footage of Diana walking along that field in Angola (Diana actually did the walk twice so that photographers could really get it).
Prince Harry discussing how Prince Archie’s curiosity around amputees and landmines (PH works with the HALO Trust) led to them watching videos of Grandma Diana’s work and discussing her life 🥹
What a beautiful way foster their child’s curiosity and carry on her legacy 🕊️ pic.twitter.com/UMB05O1u6U
— Iris 🦆 (@IrisTheeScholar) February 10, 2025
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attend the Whistler Welcome Celebration during The 2025 Invictus Games
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