• Princess Diana wanted to see landmines removed in Africa.
• Prince Harry remembers her walking into a minefield.
• Diana announced “one down, seventeen million to go”.

Princess Diana wanted minefields to be removed near the end of her life.

The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, speaks plainly about how his late mother felt about landmines in Africa and wished to see them removed.

“This had been Mummy’s most passionate cause at the end. (She’d gone to Bosnia three weeks before she’d gone to Paris in August 1997.) Many could still remember her walking alone into a live minefield, detonating a mine via remote control, announcing bravely: “One down, seventeen million to go.” Her vision of a world rid of land mines seemed within reach back then.”

He adds: “Now the world was going backwards.”

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