Harry’s Chelsea garden ‘will symbolise his loss’

Renowned landscape gardener Jinny Blom was commissioned to create the garden to raise awareness of the Prince’s Lesotho-based charity Sentebale.

She told the Radio Times that the garden would symbolise Harry’s loss over the death of his mother and that it would also represent a memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales.

A pattern “based on the idea of hearts and crowns”, cut into a floating stone in the middle of the garden would symbolise the Prince and his loss, she said.

She told the magazine: “I think she (his mother) is always there, present in him. Harry knows as well as anyone what loss means. It’s what makes him understand that in others, their desire for belonging. I want the garden to reflect that and give space for thought.”

The Prince’s charity helps children who have suffered loss as well as poverty.

Ms Blom said: “One thing that’s important in life is shelter and a home. Harry is someone who has lost those parental arms that we all need round us. He knows all about it, of course, that kids deserve to be loved and picked up.”

Asked whether the garden represented a memorial to the Prince’s mother, she said: “Absolutely. I feel the spirit of his mother in this garden, which has private areas as well as public parts.

“The charity was set up in memory of his mother and is very much in the spirit of her.”