The Duke of Sussex has discussed how he felt guilty when he was walking outside Kensington Palace after his mother’s death.

Harry: The Interview will be broadcast on Sunday, January 8 on ITV1 and ITVX and in a clip, Harry speaks about the memories he has of meeting mourners following the death of his mother, the Princess of Wales, in 1997.

Prince Harry also shared that he cried once in the wake of his mother’s death and that it was at her burial.

“Everyone knows where they were and what they were doing the night my mother died,” he tells presenter Tom Bradby.

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Prince Harry says he felt guilty after his mother's death

He adds: “I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt, and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace.”

Also in the interview, he remembers feeling the mourners’ tears on their hands when he shook them.

“There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people’s hands, smiling,” he says.

“I’ve seen the videos, right, I looked back over it all. And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn’t understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.”

Harry adds that during that public appearance, he and William were unable to show any emotion as they went to meet the mourners.

“Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment,” he says.

How to watch Harry: The Interview

Harry: The Interview will be shown on ITV1 and ITVX on Sunday, January 8 at 9pm. 

The programme will last until 10.40pm with presenter and journalist Tom Brady conducting the interview that took place in the Prince's California home. 

In a teaser clip released by ITV on Twitter, Harry is seen explaining that he’s unsure “how staying silent is ever going to make things better.”

Prince Harry's memoir Spare is set to be released next week, on January 10, with the contents of the book already causing controversy for the Royal Family.

Harry: The Interview is on ITV at 9pm on Sunday, January 8.