Queen “deeply upset" by Prince Harry
The Queen is said to be deeply disappointed by her grandson, Prince Harry, due to his latest callout on the royal family.
The Duke of Sussex spoke candidly about Prince Charles’ parenting style in a podcast interview.
He would go on to claim his family had showed “total neglect” for his wellbeing.
A royal source reportedly told the Mail on Sunday: that “Harry’s grandmother has taken this very personally and is deeply upset by what Harry has said.”
“In particular his comments about Charles’s parenting and suggesting his father knows no better because of how he was brought up.
“It has been a very upsetting time.”
Harry has been a vocal critic of the dynamics that have existed for decades within the royal family since he and his wife Meghan Markle broke away from The Firm and moved to the United States with their son Archie last year.
He has sat down for a number of tell-all interviews in recent months, the most explosive one including his chat with Oprah Winfrey.
During his interview with the Armchair Expert podcast, the royal revealed he left London to “break the cycle” of “pain” he suffered as a member of the royal family.
He also said he needed to “change that for my own kids”.
The Duke suggested his father had “suffered” because of his upbringing by the Queen and Prince Philip.
He also hinted that his father “treated me the way he was treated”, calling it “genetic pain”.
“I don’t think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody, but certainly when it comes to parenting, if I’ve experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering that perhaps my father or my parents had suffered, I’m going to make sure I break that cycle so that I don’t pass it on, basically,” Harry said.
“It’s a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway so we as parents should be doing the most we can to try and say ‘you know what, that happened to me, I’m going to make sure that doesn’t happen to you’”.
He added: “I never saw it, I never knew about it, and then suddenly I started to piece it together and go ‘OK, so this is where he went to school, this is what happened, I know this about his life, I also know that is connected to his parents so that means he’s treated me the way he was treated, so how can I change that for my own kids”.
“And here I am, I moved my whole family to the US, that wasn’t the plan but sometimes you’ve got make decisions and put your family first and put your mental health first.”
In the new Apple TV+ docuseries The Me You Can’t See, which was produced by Oprah and Harry, the Duke of Sussex revealed the trauma he underwent following the death of his mother, Princess Diana.
Harry said his mental health struggles worsened as he got into adulthood and claimed that between ages 28 to 32 were a “nightmare time” in his life.
The 36-year-old said he was willing to drink excessively and take drugs in order to mask his feelings, and that he felt stuck within the royal system.
Harry admitted that even flying to London can be a “trigger” for him.
“I wasn’t aware of it at the time when I was younger, but after I started doing therapy stuff, I became aware of it,” he said.
“I was like, why do I feel so uncomfortable? And of course, for me, London is a trigger, unfortunately, because of what happened to my mum, and because of what I experienced and what I saw.”
Harry revealed he was “ashamed” of how he dealt with his mental health and was “really angry” that he had not been offered the support he didn’t know he needed.
“I was ashamed that it got this bad,” he said.
Image: Prince Harry in Apple TV+ Documentary
“I was ashamed to go to my family, because to be honest with you, like a lot of other people my age could probably relate to, I know that I’m not gonna get from my family what I need.”
He also said that “one of the biggest reasons” he decided to step back from his role in the royal family was the fear of losing his wife.
“I then had a son, who I’d far rather be solely focused on, rather than every time I look in his eyes, wondering whether my wife is going to end up like my mother, and I’m going to have to look after him myself,” he said.
Harry revealed he had once found Meghan crying due to the “combined effort of the Firm and the media to smear her” before the Oprah interview aired.
“I was woken up in the middle of the night to her crying in her pillow because she doesn’t want to wake me up, because I’m already carrying too much,” he said.
“That’s heart-breaking. I held her, we talked, she cried, and she cried, and she cried.”
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