Prince Harry opened up over the loss of his mother Princess Diana last week, and his strong sense of empathy has been praised by a royal expert.
The Duke of Sussex, who is an ambassador for Scotty’s Little Soldiers, talked about coping with grief after losing his mother Princess Diana in 1997 in a tragic car crash in Paris. The charity helps bereaved children of veterans and works with families of those who have loss loved ones in conflict. The royal sat down with the founder, Nikki Scott, where he comforts the war widow while making his own admissions about how he dealt with bereavement.
Prince Harry has empathy – this is what the ‘royals are missing’
A royal expert has said Prince Harry‘s strong sense of empathy and being able to connect with others is something The Firm is lacking since he stepped down as a senior member of the palace.
He says it’s part of what the royals are missing when he and Meghan left for good in 2020 to make a new life in California.
Rupert Bell, TalkTV’s royal correspondent, said: “This is what [Prince Harry’s] good at, and what we’re missing – his empathy. His service life was so important to him, basically he’s talking to a member of the charity who lost her husband who then had to tell her five-year-old child that their father had been killed in Afghanistan, which is a horrible conversation to have with anybody.
“[Harry] had to go through an awful lot, no one will ever forget the picture of him walking behind Princess Diana’s coffin.”
The 39-year-old has revealed, years later, he didn’t want to walk behind Diana’s coffin as part of the funeral procession, but he and Prince William were asked to do so.
Some experts claimed King Charles, then Prince of Wales, wanted to walk behind it but was afraid he would receive backlash after Charles and Diana’s marriage broke down. The pair had filed for divorce a year before her death, but had been separated for much longer. It was during this time, the now 70-year-old admitted in a TV interview he had been unfaithful during their marriage.
Host Julia Hartley-Brewer said: “He wasn’t given the support he needed as a child on this issue, by a stiff upper lip aristocratic family. He wasn’t able to talk about it, that’s why it’s hard to deal with as an adult”.
Bell replied: “If you look at the age he was, just turning into his teenage years, that’s a vulnerable time anyway for people who are going through the change of life.
“[For the ]Royal family at that stage, it was a seismic event and in a sense it jolted the royal family into the modern era.”
‘You think you have to be sad to prove they’re missed’
The dad-to-two spoke to Ms Scott about grief, admitting his own ‘ate away’ at him on the inside.
He said: “You convince yourself that the person you’ve lost wants you, or you need to be sad for as long as possible to prove to them that they are missed.
“But then there’s this realization of, no, they must want me to be happy.”
“That’s the hardest thing, especially for kids, I think, which is, ‘I don’t want to talk about it because it will make me sad, but once realizing if I do talk about it, and I’m celebrating their life, then actually, things become easier’.”
Harry has opened up over struggles with his mental health many times over the years.
First, he collaborated with his brother William and sister-in-law Kate Middleton for their Heads Together campaign.
Then after he left the royals, he and Meghan sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss the abuse the couple suffered online. He joined up again with the billionaire for the Apple TV series, The Me You Can’t See where he spoke about the difficulties he faced while growing up inside The Firm.
Afterward, he divulged his innermost feelings and experiences through his memoir, Spare, which released in January 2023.
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