Speaking to the American actor Dax Shepard for his Armchair Expert podcast, Prince Harry was promoting his new Apple TV+ series about mental health which launches next week. Apart from that the Duke of Sussex blasted Prince Charles’ parenting and blamed the Queen for his mental health issues.
The prince said about his father: “There is no blame. I don’t think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody, but certainly when it comes to parenting, if I’ve experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering that perhaps my father or my parents had suffered, I’m going to make sure I break that cycle so that I don’t pass it on, basically.”
Moreover, he said that in his 20s, he realized he did not want the royal “job”, having seen what it did to his mother, Princess Diana.
He said he had been forced to “grin and bear it”, but added: “I’ve seen behind the curtain, I’ve seen the business model, I know how this operation runs and how it works. I don’t want to be part of this.
In comments that are widely thought to be about his mother, Princess Diana, the prince said he wanted change for his son Archie and the couple’s unborn daughter, due this summer.
He said: “It’s a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway so we as parents should be doing the most we can to try and say: ‘You know what, that happened to me, I’m going to make sure that doesn’t happen to you.’”
The 36-year-old then compared his former royal life to “a mixture between The Truman Show and being in a zoo” and said he stepped down last year to put his family and mental health ‘”first.”
Harry also opened up about how he started counselling after wife Meghan Markle “saw he was angry”. When asked if he felt “in a cage” while in royal duties, the royal said: “It’s the job right? Grin and bear it. Get on with it.”