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Sir Elton John was an AIDS activist like Princess Diana.

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00:04How are you? How are you? Good to see you.
00:07Hello, how are you? Nice to meet you.
00:10Sir Elton John was a friend of Diana's,
00:12and like her, a committed AIDS activist.
00:18Would she come here unannounced? Yeah, yeah.
00:21Prince Harry is joining him at the London Lighthouse
00:23to hear more about his mother's work.
00:27It was considered to be a gay disease.
00:29And for someone who was within the royal family,
00:33and who was a woman, and who was straight,
00:36and to have someone care from the other side
00:38was an incredible gift.
00:41And you can see it in the face.
00:42Exactly, I was about to say, you look back to these days
00:45when actually the reality was doom and gloom.
00:48Absolutely.
00:49The reality then was doom and gloom,
00:51yet everybody in that photograph is smiling.
00:54Because of her.
00:55I mean, she had an energy.
00:57Look at her face in every photograph.
00:59There's a positive, wonderful glow.
01:01Also, she had this incredible ability,
01:03which he's kind of inherited, and I told him that,
01:05and he said, thanks very much.
01:07To make people feel at ease,
01:09and make them feel that everything's going to be all right.
01:11I haven't experienced many people in my life
01:14who have that ability.
01:15But she could walk into a room of people,
01:17and make them feel as if everything was great.
01:20That's one thing I know.
01:20I mean, I've been thinking.
01:20I think that was that.
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