Prince Harry is speaking out once more and this time the Duke of Sussex opened up more about his time in the royal family and how his calls for assistance were “met with total silence.”
Shedding light on the topic, after his shocking CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harry said that he and his wife, Meghan Markle, were relentlessly attacked and harassed by the British press and that his family declined to intervene.
Speaking candidly in the new Apple TV+ series The Me You Can’t See, Harry said: “Within the first eight days of our relationship being made public, was when they said, ‘Harry’s girl almost straight out of Compton,’ and that her exotic DNA will be thickening the royal blood.
“We get followed, photographed, chased, harassed. Picking up cameras and flashes of cameras, makes my blood boil, and makes me angry takes me back to what happened to my mum, I experienced when I was a kid,” Harry went on to share.
“But it went through a whole new depth, not just with traditional media, but also social media platforms as well. I felt completely helpless. I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence or total neglect.”
Harry, who co-executive produced The Me You Can’t See with Oprah, admitted that he became enraged with himself when he and Meghan were in such a toxic situation. He also spoke about the night Meghan admitted she was having suicidal thoughts, a discovery that influenced his decision to leave the royal family as a senior member.
“To be honest with you, like a lot of other people my age could probably relate to, I know that I’m not going to get from my family what I need,” Harry continued.
“Then I had a son, who I would far rather be solely focused on, rather than every time I look in his eyes wondering whether my wife is going to end up like my mother and I’m going to have to look after him myself.
That was one of the biggest reasons to leave, feeling trapped, and feeling controlled through fear. Both by the media and by the system itself, which never encouraged the talking about this kind of trauma. Certainly, now I will never be bullied into silence.”
The Duke of Sussex goes on to share about his experience of growing without his mother Princess Diana, who he blamed the BBC for its involvement in the passing of his mother.
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“I was so angry with what happened her. And the fact that there was no justice at all,” he said. “Nothing came from that. The same people that chased her into the tunnel, photographed her dying from the backseat.
I didn’t want to think about her because if I think about her, then it’s going to bring up the fact that I can’t bring her back, and it’s going to make me sad. What’s the point in thinking about something sad? What’s the point in thinking about someone that you’ve lost that you’re never going to get back again? And I just decided not to talk about it.”
Harry went on to shed insight into his behavioural changes in a time when he had surpassed so many feelings that found their way out that led to his abuse of drugs and alcohol in an effort to numb the pain he felt for years.
“I have no regrets at all because now I’m in a place where I feel as though I should have been four years ago,” he said. “I don’t get panic attacks. I’ve learned more about myself in the last four years than I have in the 32 years before that. And I have my wife to thank for that.”
“The Me You Can’t See” centers on mental health challenges and is now available to watch on Apple TV+.
See the trailer for “The Me You Can’t See” below.
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