Prince Harry’s touching tribute to late mother Princess Diana on her birthday

Prince Harry has made a touching tribute to his late mother Princess Diana on what would have been her 59th birthday. Calling in from Los Angeles, the prince made a surprise video address at the first virtual Diana Awards on Wednesday, on behalf of himself and his brother, Prince William. Set up in memory of his late mother, the Diana Award charity looks to inspire positive change for young people.

“I am so incredibly proud to be part of these awards as they honour the legacy of my mother and bring out the very best in people like you,” Harry said in the message, addressing all 184 of the award recipients.

“You are all doing such incredible work and at a time of great uncertainty, you have found the power and inspiration inside of you to make a positive mark on the world, and I love that The Diana Award is able to help you do it.”

He then opened up about his late mother, adding: “I know that my mother has been an inspiration to many of you and I can assure you she would have been fighting your corner. Like many of you, she never took the easy route, she never took the popular one or the comfortable one. But she stood for something. And she stood up for people who needed it.”

Prince Harry also addressed the Black Lives Matter movement, saying: “My wife [Meghan Markle] said recently that our generation and the ones before us haven’t done enough to right the wrongs of the past. I too am sorry — sorry that we haven’t got the world to a place you deserve it to be.”

He added: “I want you to know that we are committed to being part of the solution and to being part of the change that you are all leading. Now is the time and we know that you can do it.”

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Last month, the Duchess of Sussex addressed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in a powerful video message. Meghan recorded the six-minute clip for the graduation of the class of 2020 at her former high school, Immaculate Heart.

“What is happening in our country and in our state and in our hometown of LA… I wasn’t sure what I could say to you. I wanted to say the right thing,” Meghan said in the video, as she directly addressed the teenage students.

“I realised the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing because George Floyd’s life mattered and Breonna Taylor’s life mattered and Philando Castile’s life mattered and Tamir Rice’s life mattered… and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know.”