Reuters is reporting that Prince Harry believes no one will ever know what happened in the Paris tunnel where his mother Princess Diana died ten years ago.

NBC’s Matt Lauer with Princes Harry and William

In an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer recorded last month, Prince Harry said: “Whatever happened in that tunnel … you know no one will ever know. And I’m sure people will always think about that the whole time … I’ll never stop wondering about that.”

In the interview both Princes describe the impact of their mother’s death on their lives. In the decade since the car crash that killed her, time had passed very slowly, with William adding that not a day goes by that he doesn’t think about her and her death.

Harry said, “It’s weird because I think when she … she passed away there was never that time … there was never that sort of lull. There was never that sort of peace and quiet for any of us — the fact that her face was always splattered on the papers the whole time. Over the last ten years I personally feel as though she has been … she’s always there. She’s always being a constant reminder to both of us and everybody else.”

Lauer reminded the Princes that Diana wanted her sons to live lives as normal as possible and asked the princes if they thought they had.

Harry answered, “I think she’d be happy in the way that we’re going about it but slightly unhappy about the way the other people were going about it, as in saying, ‘Look you’re not normal so stop trying to be normal,’ which is very much what we get a lot.”

He then said, “Within our private life and within certain other parts of our life we want to be as normal as possible. And yes it’s hard — ’cause to a certain respect we never will be normal.”

Asked what they would do if they weren’t Royal, William joked that when he was younger, he wanted to be a police officer “but not now.” He then added that he’d like to fly helicopters, “you know, working for the U.N. maybe or something like that.”

When Lauer asked Harry, William cut in and said, “He’d probably play computer games and drink beer.”

Harry responded by saying he’d like to live in Africa, be involved in humanitarian activities and work as a safari guide. His girlfriend Chelsy Davy lives in southern Africa where her father runs a Zimbabwe-based safari business.

The interview is to be broadcast next Monday on the Today show and Dateline NBC in the U.S.

It’s being reported that not only will Kate Middleton go to the Concert For Diana at Wembley Stadium on July 1st, but that she remains one of the main organizers behind the scenes.

She and Prince Harry’s gal, Chelsy Davy have been involved in the project from the beginning and both will be attending, Chelsy accompanied by five friends and Kate by her sister Pippa.

Apart from the statement that Kate and Prince William have “split up”, nothing appears to have changed. Life goes on as it ever did in the whacky world of Royal romance.

Truly this is Blair’s Britain we’re living in.

Prince Harry will leave the British Army earlier than expected, say his friends. Instead of a glittering 20-year career as a professional soldier, Harry has realized that no commander can commit him to the type of war zone the modern Army fights in.

Voices close to Prince Harry are now positioning him for a face-saving early exit to become a full-time Royal and charity worker, possibly together with girlfriend, Chelsy Davy.

Prince Harry with Chelsy Davy

A source is quoted as saying, “Harry has wanted to serve in the Army since he was a small boy and the debacle over his deployment to Iraq has hit him hard. The poor lad really is beside himself and more than a bit depressed. He keeps up nearly by the hour on what is happening with his boys in the Gulf.

“He is trying to be positive about what has happened because the situation out in Iraq is so unusual, but knows in his heart of hearts that pulling him out was the death knell for his Army career.”

The friend went on, “He has not put a timeline on it yet but he has definitely changed his mind about the Army being his full-time career and will leave earlier than was previously thought. He has decided he will devote his time to charity work and travel. Harry has a list that his mother once made of things she wanted to help to change in the world and he wants to check all of them off.

“Harry is quite a complex character in that way. He is an outgoing lad who loves a beer, a cigarette and night out on the tiles, but he can be incredibly sensitive too and is very passionate about his work in Africa, even though he doesn’t always articulate it particularly well.”

And what of Chelsy Davy? The source said, “Don’t be surprised if you see his girlfriend, Chelsy, doing a bit of good work as well. Harry has been trying to invigorate everyone around him to help those who need it.”

Well, at least he’s being realistic about his role in life. Sending the third in-line to the Throne to be killed on a vicious battlefield most people think is not worth fighting over, would be a dismal outcome for the nation, and for a young man with so much to offer in other ways.

Keep your spirits up, Harry. It’s all still to play for.

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In the end, after all the fuss, the Channel 4 documentary about the immediate aftermath of the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, turned into nothing more than a thoughtful, non-invasive essay on the role of the media before, and during, the event.

Like the Camilla film last week, it plumbed unexpected depths and left viewers better informed, especially about motives, than they may have been before.

The much-trailed photographs of the dying Diana were absent, except for one so dark nothing could be seen. All that was visible was the shape of the lone French doctor who happened to be passing and bravely went to the aid of a woman he didn’t recognize.

Confusion reigned for minutes afterwards, when even the first paparazzi arriving at the scene seemed unaware that this was Diana and Dodi. Much of the action in the film was reconstructed and simply showed photographers firing off flashbulbs.

Still shots inside the tunnel were few, but they did illustrate the sense of shock and bewilderment that prevailed. The ambulance arrived 17 minutes after the crash and was confronted with two dead bodies, a badly injured Trevor Rees-Jones, screaming in agony, and Diana, who seemed only to have concussion and superficial injuries. Many still didn’t realize who she was.

It was some minutes before a police officer became aware it was Diana and called in for backup. The criticism of the paramedics in the ambulance seems misplaced, given that they had four people to deal with in the car, not just Diana.

In terms of the “intrusion” into Diana’s privacy, the scenes in the tunnel were undoubtedly graphic and would have caused her sons and close family considerable discomfort. But they did shed much needed light on the reality behind these now almost mythical scenes. What came across was the slow build-up of shock as people gradually realized what had happened. Newsreaders, sharp at first, descended into stunned incoherence. It was as if it all happened in slow motion, surreal and out of sync. The British Ambassador, crying like a baby in the hospital, added to the sense of poignancy.

The aim of the programme was to focus on the actions of the media, and to what extent the press and photographers caused this crash.

The man Diana called “the big red tomato”, James Whitaker, summed up succinctly : “Although a few of the press pack were following,” he said, “there was no need for Henri Paul to drive so fast.” The car swerved into the tunnel at great speed, clipped a white Fiat Uno, and careered into a pillar. It was almost inevitable.

At first everyone blamed the media, even Mohamed al Fayed and memorably, Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer at her funeral. Once her death had been announced, however, the photographs taken at the scene became worthless except as evidence in the police inquiry. Ken Lennox, picture editor of the Sun, explained the process clinically. The first shots coming through, the planned headlines and layout, then nothing. Not one of the first, graphic pictures could be used.

The hysteria that followed, with witch hunt against the media added to witch hunt, showed the “wisdom of crowds” to be as flawed as any other. Whitaker got it right, Henri Paul didn’t need to drive Formula One-style around Paris that night. The paparazzi knew the couple were going to Dodi’s apartment, so what was the rush?

In retrospect it all seems so inevitable once the decision to put an alcoholic behind the wheel of the car had been taken. All that has happened since, including the long delays in the legal process, have been caused by attempts to deflect attention away from that crucial decision.

So, how did the press emerge from this often painful documentary? As a staunch believer in a free press — which often protects us more than parliaments and politicians — I think the press comes out of it better than we were led to believe at the time.

The enormous sums of money on offer to the photographers were driven by the public, not greedy picture editors and press barons. It was the public with its insatiable appetite for anything revealing about this shy, aristocratic girl, plucked from obscurity to play a role in the Royal drama.

Like Icarus, she flew too close to the sun and was burnt up in a tangle of events caused by a single flawed decision.