Prince Harry has never hidden the immense grief he experienced after the sudden loss of his mother, Princess Diana. Her tragic death in a Paris car crash in 1997, when Harry was just 12 years old, fractured his world — and left behind a lifetime of questions, sorrow and longing.
Now, in an emotional revelation, the 40-year-old Duke of Sussex shares how that deep yearning eventually led him to a psychic, not for spectacle or show — but for something much more profound: connection.
According to Harry, the woman — who he doesn’t name — claimed to have powers that allowed her to reach across the veil between the living and the dead.
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And what the psychic told him left him shaken. She said Diana was “with him,” that she saw his pain, knew he was searching for answers, and offered the comfort that in leaving England and making a life in California with wife Meghan, 43, and their two young children, Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 2, he was “living the life she couldn’t.”
This comforted Harry a great deal and relieved some of his doubts about turning his back on the royal family — especially brother Prince William, 42, and dad King Charles, 76.
“She knows you’re looking for clarity,” the psychic told him. “She knows you feel confused. You have so many questions.”
All the answers, she promised, would come in time.
While he was consulting with the psychic, Harry says, his neck grew warm and his eyes filled with tears. It wasn’t just the words — it was the feeling of a sense of being seen by someone who was gone, and still, somehow, not gone at all.
The psychic went on to recount a private, seemingly trivial memory — about Harry’s son, Archie, breaking a Christmas ornament shaped like Queen Elizabeth. Harry admitted the story was true, stunned that she could know such a detail. The psychic said Diana had witnessed it, and had even “giggled” from beyond.
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While some people may think it’s silly to speak to the dead, Harry’s path to that moment is steeped in his mother’s own spiritual journey. Diana herself was deeply drawn to the mystical and unseen.
Throughout her life, and especially during her most emotionally turbulent years, Diana often turned to psychics and spiritual advisors for comfort and clarity. Her most trusted psychic was Rita Rogers, a Derbyshire medium she met in 1994. Rogers and Diana became close, meeting twice a week and often talking by phone.
Rogers made several uncanny predictions — some that gave Diana hope, and others that made her uneasy. She foretold that Diana would meet a man whose name began with “D” by the sea — a prediction that would later align with her romance with Dodi Fayed.
Rogers also warned Diana about a black Mercedes and a tunnel — details chillingly similar to the circumstances of her death in Paris.
But aside from the predictions, Rogers gave Diana something more essential: a sense of spiritual grounding. Diana, though born into royalty, often felt adrift. She found peace in believing that there was more to life than what we see — that love, connection and protection continue even after death.
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She once described herself as having “a deep need for meaning.” In her handwritten notes and conversations with friends, Diana expressed a belief that those who have passed on could watch over the living.
Diana shared her beliefs with her sons, so it’s no surprise Harry would turn to the same kind of spiritual guidance his mother once sought.
In speaking to a psychic, Harry was following in Diana’s footsteps, seeking the same comfort she once found. And in doing so, he found something remarkable: a moment of warmth, of recognition, of emotional truth.
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He also wrote in his memoir, “Spare,” of a mysterious encounter in Botswana, when a leopard crossed his path during a trip with his brother. Harry felt in his heart that the animal was a messenger from Diana, sent to reassure him that he was not alone.
Even years earlier, in the immediate aftermath of her death, Harry clung to a child’s hope that she had faked her passing. He couldn’t accept she was truly gone.
Later, he made repeated drives through the Paris tunnel, trying to make sense of her early death.
Harry, like Diana, believes that love doesn’t die, and although she has left the physical world, her spirit is always available to him, a belief that will comfort him for the rest of his life.