Belgium Princess Defends 'Traumatized' Prince Harry Amid Royal Feud: ‘Everybody’s Bullying Him…’
Prince Harry’s relationship with the royal family remains strained despite his public plea for reconciliation. In his BBC interview, the Duke admitted to how his equation with his family worsened after the allegations he made in his memoir, Spare. Amid the ongoing feud, an unexpected royal has sided with the Prince. Princess Delphine of Belgium recently expressed her concerns about ‘traumatized’ Harry and claimed that he is being 'bullied'.
Delphine is the daughter of the former monarch of Belgium, King Albert II, and the half-sister of King Philippe. Much like Harry, she, too, has fought her fair share of legal battles and was able to prove she was the illegitimate child of Albert II. Besides being a member of the Belgian royal family, she is also a well-known artist. During her recent appearance on the It’s Reigning Men podcast, she sympathized with Harry as she noted the trauma he had to cope with in losing his mother, Princess Diana.
According to Hello! magazine, she said, “I do follow a little bit of Harry because Lady Diana was just part of my life when I was in England… Then she had these children and everything, and then this death was just horrible. They lost such an important figure, and I feel very sorry for Harry because I think that was traumatic for him.” The Princess continued, “I think Harry suffered so much, and I think he was traumatized, and it's coming out now.” She further defended the Duke’s legal appeal to reinstate the state-funded security for him and his family in the UK. She argued, “This thing about security. I think it's to do with what happened to his mother.”
The 57-year-old claimed that she has an understanding of what the Prince might be feeling. She shared, “I understand the guy. He's just traumatized. And I understand, so he's doing these things, and everybody's bullying him, but not thinking about his trauma. And I just find it terrible because he's just been kind of left.”
For the unversed, Harry was only 12 years old when his mother died in a car accident in Paris, France. The loss had him believing for a long time that his mother was alive but in hiding to escape the press. Calling it a ‘defence mechanism,’ the Prince once said, “For a long time, I just refused to accept that she was gone. She would never do this to us, but also maybe this is all part of a plan.” According to The Wrap, the Prince did not accept the truth until he was 20, and was able to only after he went through the police report of his mother’s death and visited the tunnel where the accident occurred. In his words, he needed “proof that she was in the car... proof that she was injured... and proof that the very paparazzi that chased her into the tunnel were the ones that were taking photographs—photographs of her lying half dead on the back seat of the car.” It was also the role the press played in Diana's death that had him once convinced his security would never be stripped.
Despite having lost his legal battle earlier this year, and him blaming the Firm for influencing his stripping of security, Harry is allegedly adamant to make amends with his family. After his public reconciliation plea, he is reportedly set to invite his father, King Charles, and the rest of the family to the 2027 Invictus Games in Birmingham. However, it is still unclear whether he and Meghan Markle would fly to England to attend the Games.