Prince Harry Attacks His Family Over No Support

Prince Harry claimed he did not have a support network after returning from service in Afghanistan in another apparent dig at the Royal Family.

The Duke of Sussex made the remarks in his new Netflix series, Heart Of Invictus, which premiered today.

The five-part documentary showcases Prince Harry, with his wife Meghan Markle appearing only briefly in many sequences to encourage him.

In the series, Harry also revealed that he was unaware of the trauma he was still experiencing as a result of his mother, Princess Diana, dying in Paris in August 1997, when he was only 12 years old.

Prince Harry said that when he returned from war in 2008, the “biggest struggle for me was no one around me really could help”, adding: “I didn’t have that support structure, that network or that expert advice to identify what was actually going on with me.”

He also told the show: “Unfortunately, like most of us, the first time you consider therapy is when you are lying on the floor in the foetal position probably wishing you had dealt with some of this stuff previously. And that’s what I really want to change.”

Harry introduces himself as a father of two, dog owner, and spouse in the Sussexes’ latest initiative as part of their £80 million partnership with Netflix.

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The Duke of Sussex is asked by an interviewer: “What’s your name?”, and he replies: “My name’s Harry.” The interviewer then says: “What do you do, Harry?”

He replies: “What do I do? On any given day? I’m a dad of two under-three-year-olds, have a couple of dogs, and husband, I’m a founding patron of Invictus Games Foundation. There are lots of hats that one wears, but I believe today is all about Invictus.”

In the video, Harry and Meghan can also be seen in a private time together before Harry’s address at the Salute to Freedom Gala for military veterans in New York in November 2021, during which the duke can be heard confiding in the duchess about his worries.

Harry is heard saying: “We haven’t done this for a while… My heart [is] like ‘digidigadigadiga’. He paces around nervously backstage.”

He also spoke on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma in war zones, sharing his own experiences.

He says: “Look, I can only speak to my own experience but from my tour of Afghanistan in 2012, flying Apaches, somewhere after that there was an unravelling.

“And the trigger for me was actually returning from Afghanistan but the stuff that was coming up was from 1997 from the age of 12. Losing my mum at such a young age, the trauma I had I was never aware of.

“It was never discussed and I didn’t really talk about it and I suppressed it like most other youngsters would have done. When it all came fizzing out, I was bouncing off the walls – what is going on here? – I am now feeling everything instead of being young.

“The biggest struggle for me was no one around me really could help. I didn’t have that support structure, that network or that expert advice to identify what was actually going on with me.

“Unfortunately, like most of us, the first time you consider therapy is when you are lying on the floor in the foetal position probably wishing you had dealt with some of this stuff previously. And that’s what I really want to change.”

Harry also speaks about trauma to Canadian indoor rower Darrell Ling, who tells him: “I’m glad you’ve been through this stuff and know how we feel.”

The duke then says: “I can’t pretend to know what you’ve been through, but I had that moment in my life where I didn’t know about it but because of the trauma of losing my mum when I was 12, for all those years, I had no emotion, I was unable to cry, I was unable to feel.

“I didn’t know it at the time. And it wasn’t until later in my life aged 28 there was a circumstance that happened that the first few bubbles started coming out and then suddenly it was like someone shook and it went ‘poof’ – and then it was chaos.

“My emotions were sprayed all over the wall everywhere I went and I was like ‘how the hell do I contain this?’. I’ve gone from nothing to everything and I now need to get a glass jar and put myself in it, put myself in it, leave the lid open and my therapist said ‘You choose what comes in and everything else bounces off’.”

Army veteran Harry, who served in Afghanistan twice, once from 2007 to 2008 and again from 2012 to 2013, also describes how he never intended to serve in the Armed Forces after having children.

The Duke, who is father to Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, tells former Invictus competitors JJ Chalmers and David Wiseman during a hike: “I’ve always had myself down as being the dad that I could never be serving while having kids. And you both did, right? It’s never the individual signing up – it’s the whole family signing up.”