‘Emotional’ Prince Harry retraces Princess Diana’s footsteps in former Angola minefield

Britain’s Prince Harry on Friday paid an “emotional” visit to a street in Angola that was once a minefield visited by his mother Diana shortly before her death.

Princess Diana walked across a cleared minefield near the central city of Huambo in 1997 to highlight the plight of a country that remains plagued by landmines 17 years after the end of its civil war.

Just months later Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, when Harry was 12.

“It has been emotional retracing my mother’s steps along this street 22 years on,” said Harry, standing on Huambo’s now-paved Princess Diana Street.

“Being here on this transformed and bustling street … shows the tremendous impact that clearing landmines has on communities and their futures.”