After the new a flood of revelations in interview in an interview he gave to Dax Shepard's American podcast «Armchair Expert,» the Prince Harry He is now at war with his family.
The new interview is clearly more candid than the one he gave, along with his wife, Meghan Markle in Oprah Winfrey Among other things, the Duke of Sussex revealed that the first time he wanted to step down from the royal family was when he was 20, because of «what had happened to my mother,» and that Megan Markle encouraged him to go to therapy.
Harry said in the interview that he moved to Los Angeles with his family in order to «break the cycle of pain.», that he suffered because of the way his father raised him, Prince Charles, who also «suffered» from the way he was raised by his Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
Harry, who already has a two-year-old son, Archie, and is expecting a daughter this summer, said he doesn’t want his children to grow up the way he did—and the way his father did before him.
Open challenge
Speaking about the «cycle of pain passed down from generation to generation,» the Duke of Sussex, for the first time, brings others into the picture besides his father and Queen Elizabeth.
In his interview, Harry emphasized how toxic it was to grow up in a palace reminiscent of the 1998 film «The Truman Show,» and said that he felt like an animal in a zoo.
«I don’t think we should point fingers or blame anyone, but certainly when it comes to parenting issues, if I’ve experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering my father or my parents may have experienced, I’ll make sure to break that cycle so that I don’t do the same thing to my children,» Harry said, referring to Charles’s automatic behavior toward his children stemming from his own childhood experiences.
«Parents already go through so much pain and hardship—which is passed on to their children anyway—and we, as parents, must do everything we can, try our best, and say, ”You know what, this happened to me, and I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen to you.”».
Regarding his father's behavior
Harry then went into even more detail about the behavior of his father, Prince Charles: «I’d never seen it, I’d never known it, and then suddenly I started putting the pieces together and said, »Okay, this is because of the school he went to; this happened; I know this about his life, I also know that this is connected to his parents, so that means he’s treating me the way he was treated, so how can I change all of this for my own children. And here I am—I moved with my whole family to the U.S., even though we hadn’t planned it, but sometimes you make decisions and put your family first, and you put your mental health first.”.
He also attributed his wild youth to «childhood traumas», having previously admitted that He experimented with marijuana and excessive drinking and joked about the incident where he played pool naked at a party in Las Vegas.
Prince Harry added that this is what he had in mind: «I’ve seen behind the scenes, I’ve seen the business model, and I’ve seen how this whole thing works, and I don't want to be a part of this».
«So, living here in Los Angeles, I can now hold my head high and feel different; you can walk around feeling a little freer, I can take Archie on the back seat of my bike—something I would never have had the chance to do.».
Prince Harry also revealed that Meghan Markle told him about her experience of royal life: «You don’t have to be a princess; you can create your own life, which will be better than that of any princess,» adding: «We met, and it was like, “Wow, this is very different from what my friends told me it would be at first.»”.
