{"id":363104,"date":"2026-04-04T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363104\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:07:07","slug":"princess-dianas-angola-trip-newly-unearthed-footage-airs-on-itv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363104\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana\u2019s Angola trip: Newly unearthed footage airs on ITV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDespite the fact that this campaign was very important to her and that she was going to continue working on it, her priority was her boys and that\u2019s where she would be focusing most of her energy going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Diana's efforts raised global awareness, contributing to the removal of an estimated 100,000 landmines in Angola. Photo \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Diana&#8217;s efforts raised global awareness, contributing to the removal of an estimated 100,000 landmines in Angola. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">He added: \u201cOnce it had sunk in, I just found it very, very sad. A woman who could have made a big difference was now no longer with us. The woman I spoke to about her sons and how important they were to her, suddenly those boys did not have that mother who was going to guide them through life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWho knows how their relationship might have developed had she still been around?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">In the archive clip, Diana addressed the controversy surrounding the visit, saying: \u201cI saw it merely as a distraction as I\u2019m not a political figure, I\u2019m a humanitarian figure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The footage forms part of ITV News\u2019 Reporting History series, available across ITVX and other platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Diana\u2019s work on the Angola trip contributed to global awareness of landmine dangers, with efforts since resulting in the removal of an estimated 100,000 landmines from the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, 41, later revisited the site of Diana\u2019s walk in 2019 and continues to support landmine clearance efforts as a patron of the Halo Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDespite the fact that this campaign was very important to her and that she was going to continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[165683,14345,9218,37634,3289,10039,634,8668,107137,156,373,19473,71,85819,7386,3234,111,16652,139,69,90,28821,1315,21085,1491],"class_list":{"0":"post-363104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-airs","9":"tag-angola","10":"tag-before","11":"tag-behindthescenes","12":"tag-broadcast","13":"tag-controversial","14":"tag-death","15":"tag-diana","16":"tag-dianas","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-featured","19":"tag-footage","20":"tag-from","21":"tag-humanitarian","22":"tag-itv","23":"tag-months","24":"tag-new-zealand","25":"tag-newly","26":"tag-newzealand","27":"tag-nz","28":"tag-on","29":"tag-princess","30":"tag-trip","31":"tag-unearthed","32":"tag-wales"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}