What made Diana Spencer's death feel even more drastic was the outpouring of grief from the British public and, really, the entire world. Flowers, cards, and tributes were left just about everywhere as people grieved, dedicated, and moved throughout their tributes in disbelief that she had actually died.
But how did the young princes, William and Harry, feel about the outpouring of public grief and support? Maybe how what you think. "I was very touched by it, but none of it sank in," William said, as noted by ABC News. "All I cared about was, I'd lost my mother, and I didn't want to be where I was." Harry echoed the sentiment, saying that in hindsight, reading cards and looking at the tributes left for his mother was "the last thing [he] wanted to do." "Yes, it was amazing. It was incredibly moving to know, but at that point, I wasn't there. I was still in shock," he said.
William explained that going out into the public in the immediate aftermath of his mother's death required him to put his "game face" on so he didn't "utterly break down."
