In a brand new interview, Prince Harry remembers the emotional days following the demise of his mom, Princess Diana, and the way he adopted his royal duties after her passing.

Chatting with the U.Ok.’s ITV for a sit-down set to air Jan. 8—two days earlier than the discharge of his controversial tell-all memoir Spare, the previous senior royal recalled how he, at age 12, and brother Prince William, then 15, joined their dad, now-King Charles III, in greeting mourners and viewing floral tributes round Kensington Palace in honor of the late Princess of Wales quickly after she was killed at age 36 in a automobile crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997.

“I cried as soon as, on the burial. I am going into element about how unusual it was and the way, really, there was some guilt that I felt, and I believe William felt as properly, by strolling across the exterior of Kensington Palace,” Harry informed ITV’s Tom Bradby. “And there are 50,000 bouquets to our mom. And there we have been, shaking individuals’s arms, smiling. I’ve seen the movies. I look again over all of it. The moist arms that we have been shaking—I could not perceive why their arms have been moist.”

Harry then defined, “It was all of the tears that they have been wiping away.”