March 05, (THEWILL) – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, has stated that he has long felt slightly different from the rest of Britain’s royal family in an interview on Saturday, with a trauma expert.
In a wide-ranging discussion with Dr Gabor Mate, Harry described himself as coming from a broken home and said he was trying not to pass trauma onto his children, according to reports of the live-streamed conversation.
The interview follows the January publication of the prince’s controversial memoir, ‘Spare’, in which he admitted his adolescence was marked by drugs and alcohol and detailed the breakdown in his relationships with his father, King Charles III, and brother, William.
“I certainly have felt throughout my life, my younger years, I felt slightly different from the rest of my family, Harry told Mate, according to numerous media reports on the interview.
“I felt strange being in this container, and I know that my mum felt the same so it makes sense to me,” he added, referring to his late mother Princess Diana.
Harry went on to credit his wife, Meghan Markle for having saved him.
“I was stuck in this world, and she was from a different world and helped draw me out of that.
“She is an exceptional human being.”
During the conversation, Mate, who is the author of several books on trauma, addiction and illness publicly diagnosed Harry with attention deficit disorder (ADD).
Summarising the prince’s life, which has included losing his mother at the age of 12 and later serving with Britain’s armed forces in Afghanistan, Mate said there was a lot of trauma and suffering.
Harry, who is now based in California after quitting the UK and royal life with Meghan in 2020 amid a rift with the monarchy, opened up about his parenting style towards their two children, three-year-old, Archie and one-year-old, Lilibet.
“I feel a huge responsibility not to pass on any trauma or negative experiences that I’ve had as a kid or as a man growing up.
“There are times when I catch myself when I should be smothering them with that love but I might not be.”
He added that together with Meghan, they are trying to learn from their own past and overlapping those mistakes, and perhaps, growing to break that cycle.
