Prince Harry's Latest Comments Show He's 'More Unhappy' Now Than He's Ever Been: Expert
Losing his mother at a young age and growing up in the spotlight have impacted Harry’s emotional well-being.
Over the years, Prince Harry has repeatedly spoken about his personal struggles with mental health, especially in media interviews and public speeches. He has admitted to facing years of emotional turmoil following Princess Diana’s death, before eventually seeking therapy and support. Even during his and Meghan Markle's recent Australia visit, Harry took the stage to share how his life took a major turn after Diana's death, further opening up about his early struggles of fatherhood. Considering this, a royal expert claimed that Harry currently appears to be ‘more unhappy’ than he's ever been.
During his interaction with the global director of men’s health research at Movember, Dr Zac Seidler, the Duke of Sussex admitted that he felt a sense of disconnection when Meghan was pregnant with their first child, Prince Archie. As reported by The Mirror, he said, “Certainly I felt a disconnection, because my wife was the one creating life, and I was there to witness it." He also spoke about the period after Archie's birth and said, "Every single time I went to work, and I came back – if I was stressed, the moment that I held Archie, he would start crying.”
Not just this, in another public moment, Harry also spoke about how his mother's death forced him to hate the royal life for a brief period. As reported by People Magazine, he said, "I was like, ‘I don’t want this job. I don’t want this role — wherever this is headed, I don’t like it'. It killed my mum, and I was very much against it, and I stuck my head in the sand for years and years." After analyzing these remarks, Duncan Larcombe, an expert who has previously worked with both Harry and Prince William, said he was not at all shocked by the comments, as the trauma the Duke experienced in his childhood continues to have a lasting impact.
Duncan said, “He’s been quite open about his childhood being flawed and traumatic, and his personality is very much ‘wear your heart on your sleeve’, which is maybe why he is the one, as opposed to William, who seems tortured by it and why he’s making these emotional outbursts.” He then went on to add, “There must have been times when that’s been difficult for Meghan, too. But he seems more unhappy now than he’s ever been.”
The expert further claimed that whenever he spoke to William about Harry, William always seemed very protective of his younger brother. "Their royal statuses aside, he [Harry] will have missed having that person he turned to for support and advice," he said. Similarly, child and educational psychologist Dr. Ahmar Ferguson also claimed that the loss of Harry's mother, along with growing up in the spotlight, has impacted his emotional well-being over the years. Ahmar emphasized that growing up with constant grief makes him even more sensitive to any kind of connection or disconnection in his adulthood.
