Prince Harry reveals he showed Archie, 5, pictures of Princess Dianas famous landmine walk: Got to talk about my mum

Prince Harry is reflecting on the important work his late mother, Princess Diana partook in.The Duke of Sussex, 40, shared how a conversation about the Invictus Games with his son, Prince Archie, 5, went in a “different” direction and morphed into a chat about the tyke’s late grandmother, who died at age 36 in 1997.During the 2025 Invictus Games, Prince Harry spoke with CTV about how he explained the adaptive sporting competition for sick, wounded and injured service personnel and veterans to Archie and Princess Lilibet, 3.“You either shut it down straight away, which I would never do, or you engage in the conversation and you try to explain things,” Prince Harry, who is married to Meghan Markle, 43, said.“Archie was asking about landmines, so I was talking about how some of these guys [Invictus Games participants] were blown up.”He continued, “I think IEDs are probably a bit too much at this point, but I found myself talking to him about mines when he was 5 years old.”But the discussion quickly turned into how Princess Diana famously walked through a landmine field in Angola that was being cleared by the Halo Trust to raise awareness of the issue in 1997.“Interestingly, it gave me a chance to talk about my mum, his grandma, which I didn’t even really consider,” Harry recalled.

“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.”Prince Harry continues to follow in his mother’s footsteps by making a similar walk to help clear dangerous landmines around the world.In September 2019, the Duke of Sussex wore protective gear and a visor, like his mother, as he visited a Halo Trust mine site in Angola.He also visited the area where his mother walked, which is now a thriving community.

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