Leaked pages of Prince Harry's new book reveal he asked his chauffeur to recreate the night his mum died in the hope of ending a decade of "unrelenting pain."
Harry wrote about the incident in 2007, where he got his driver to take the same route Diana did before her death, including through the Pont de L'Alma tunnel, where she sustained fatal injuries as a result of a crash in 1997.
In Harry's controversial upcoming book, Spare, he writes how he also asked the driver to speed up to 65 miles per hour "to be precise," as the Mirror reports.
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Harry, who was 23 at the time, was in Paris attending the semi-final of the Rugby World Cup, where he later admitted trying to fight his bodyguard, Billy the Rock, after drinking heavily.
Harry's memoir is set to be released on January 10 in the UK but excerpts of the highly-anticipated book have been leaked early after copies accidently hit the shelves in Spain.
Detailing the disturbing recreation in his new book, Harry said his bodyguard told the driver that if he ever told anyone what they had asked him to do they would "find him and there would be hell to pay".
Recalling the recreation, Harry revealed that they drove past the Ritz, where Diana had had her last meal with her boyfriend, before coming to the entrance of the tunnel.
He wrote: "We zipped ahead, went over the lip at the tunnel's entrance, the bump that supposedly sent Mummy's Mercedes veering off course."
But he was surprised to find that they "barely felt" the lip despite previously imagining the tunnel as a "treacherous passageway" that was "inherently dangerous".
Harry reportedly asked his driver to repeat the trip before admitting it had been a "very bad idea" he had come up with while trying to find some form of "closure."
He added: "I'd thought driving the tunnel would bring an end, or brief cessation, to the pain, the decade of unrelenting pain. Instead it brought on the start of Pain, Part Deux."
In an excerpt of his memoir translated from Spanish, Harry goes on to detail a drunken fight with his bodyguard after the tunnel incident.
According to the excerpt, the driver had dropped Harry and Billy in a bar where the Prince began "looking for a fight".
After being kicked out he admits to shouting in Billy's face and slapping him on the head but said he "barely reacted" and that Billy and another bodyguard then took him to bed.
Harry went on recall telling William about the tunnel recreation after he woke up, claiming that he "wasn't at all surprised" as he had also driven through the tunnel.
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