Prince Harry pens emotional message to bereaved children in new book
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Prince Harry opened up about the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a foreword for a new book created for children who have lost a parent to COVID-19. Harry, who was 12 at the time of his mother's death, wrote that despite the "hole" losing a parent creates, the memories of them live on forever.
The book, "Hospital by the Hill," tells the story of a child whose mother died from COVID-19 while working on the front lines of the pandemic. The book has been made available for free to children in the United Kingdom. "When I was a young boy I lost my mum. At the time I didn't want to believe it or accept it, and it left a huge hole inside of me," Prince Harry wrote. "I know how you feel and I want to assure you that over time that hole will be filled with so much love and support. ...when a parent goes to heaven, I was told their spirit, their love and the memories of them do not."Noumea — France's president held a flurry of meetings with local representatives in the restive Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Thursday, urging calm after deadly rioting, and vowing thousands of military reinforcements will stay in place to quell what he called an "unprecedented insurrection."
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