Prince Harry, youngest son of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the late Diana of Wales, has admitted that he was not able to face the trauma of losing his mother until after serving as a soldier in Afghanistan, as revealed in a documentary that has been released on the American platform Netflix.
The Duke of Sussex, who lives in the US after parting ways with the British monarchy in early 2020, said he had to “wrestle” with the trauma and that “nobody” around him “could really help.”
“I didn’t have that support structure, that network or that expert advice to really identify what was happening to me,” the prince, 38, said in the documentary “Heart of Invictus.”
The program focuses on the special sports competition the prince has created for former members of the armed forces who were seriously injured after serving in conflicts.
“I can only speak from my personal experience, my tour of Afghanistan in 2012 flying Apache (helicopters), sometime after that there was a revelation and the trigger for me was actually coming back from Afghanistan,” he confessed.
He said that his problems stemmed from 1997, when his mother died in a car accident in Paris.
“I was never really aware of the trauma that I had, I never discussed it, I didn’t really talk about it, and I repressed it like most young people would have done,” the prince recounted.
The Duke of Sussex and his wife, Meghan, have decided to leave the royal family to live in Los Angeles out of anger over the way they claim the Duchess was treated by the royals.
The Duchess of Sussex, who is mixed-race, went so far as to say that someone in the royal family asked what color her son Archie would be when he was born (in 2019).
