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Published 14:47 28 May 2021 GMT
Prince Harry appears to have taken yet another dig at the Royal Family in a new interview.
The Duke of Sussex made his comments during the latest episode of his Apple TV+ series The Me You Don't See, which he made in collaboration with Oprah Winfrey.
In the episode, Harry can be seen talking to Oprah and to Fatal Attraction actress Glenn Close about various traumas and issues he's faced in the past. The conversation then discussed how dysfunctional families can downplay these issues...
Take a look at the official trailer for The Me You Don't See below:Per The Sun, Harry stated:
"As parents, as siblings [...] there's an element of shame we feel because we're like: 'How could we not have seen it?' How did we not know? How did you not feel comfortable enough to come to me and share that with me?'
"But we all know when people are suffering and people are struggling, that we're all incredibly good at covering it up for those that know that we're covering it up."
But the Prince also spoke about the importance of family as well, and opened up about his own difficulties grieving the loss of his late mother Lady Diana Spenser, stating:
"To see behind closed doors, the realities of a family struggling - but not just struggling, thriving because of that family connection. For me, that's the overwhelming positive of it."
Since its release, Apple has announced that the series has been the number one most-watched program worldwide on AppleTV+. What's more, the series enticed 25% of new viewers.
Per The Sun, an Apple spokesman said: "Apple TV+ announced today 'The Me You Can't See: A Path Forward,' a town hall conversation hosted by co-creators and executive producers Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry."
They continued: "With subjects and experts from the critically acclaimed, multi-part documentary series exploring mental health and emotional well-being, premiering Friday, May 28 for free on Apple TV+.
"Following the global debut of the groundbreaking documentary series, 'The Me You Can't See: A Path Forward,' Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry reunite with advisors and participants for a thought-provoking, wide-ranging conversation about mental health and emotional well-being, and where we go from here."
Published 15:03 26 May 2021 GMT
Prince Harry has teamed up with Oprah Winfrey once more for yet another interview after the success of their new AppleTV+ show titled The Me You Can't See.
Per CNN, the Duke of Sussex will appear alongside Oprah in The Me You Can't See: A Path Forward, a Town Hall-style discussion set to air this Friday.
According to Apple TV+, who will air Friday's town hall, the show is reportedly going to feature some of the stars that were originally interviewed including actress Glenn Close.
Taking to Twitter, journalist Omid Scobie - who is the author of Finding Freedom and the Sussexes trusted media friend - wrote: "Millions have already streamed #TheMeYouCantSee, and now @AppleTV confirm that @Oprah and Prince Harry are following up the series with a 'town hall-style conversation' special.
"A Path Forward will be available from May 28 and offers further insight from guests and their stories."
The new interview - described as a virtual town hall - is reportedly set to feature a handful of stars that originally made an appearance in The Me You Can't See.
Alongside the star-studded line-up, several experts and advisors are also due to appear for a conversation about mental health and emotional well-being.
Since its release, Apple has announced that the series has been the number one most-watched program worldwide on AppleTV+. What's more, the series enticed 25% of new viewers.
Per The Sun, an Apple spokesman said: "Apple TV+ announced today 'The Me You Can't See: A Path Forward,' a town hall conversation hosted by co-creators and executive producers Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, with subjects and experts from the critically acclaimed, multi-part documentary series exploring mental health and emotional well-being, premiering Friday, May 28 for free on Apple TV+.
"Following the global debut of the groundbreaking documentary series, 'The Me You Can't See: A Path Forward,' Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry reunite with advisors and participants for a thought-provoking, wide-ranging conversation about mental health and emotional well-being, and where we go from here."
In the five-part mental health series, Harry made several revelations about his past that were little-known to the public.
The Duke of Sussex claimed the Royal Family of "total silence" and "neglect" when Meghan Markle was "struggling" with suicidal feelings, while she was pregnant with their first child, Archie.
What's more, while speaking about his "puzzling life", Harry asserted that "there was no protection" for Diana, or him and William as young princes.
Harry also revealed that he used to drink a week's worth of alcohol in order to try to cope with the death of his mother, the Princess of Wales, as well as the "hectic" pressures of being a working royal.
Detailing "a nightmare time in my life", aged 28 to 32, Harry described experiencing panic attacks and severe anxiety. "I was just all over the place mentally," he explained. "Every time I put a suit on and tie on... having to do the role, and go, 'right, game face,' look in the mirror and say, 'let's go'. Before I even left the house I was pouring with sweat. I was in fight or flight mode."
Published 13:19 19 May 2021 GMT
Prince Harry's upcoming mental health docuseries with Oprah Winfrey has incited backlash online, with people slamming his decision to air footage of his mother's funeral.
Good Morning Britain host, Susanna Reid, cast doubt on the prince's aims behind the series, titled The Me You Can't See, yesterday, questioning whether he had "opened up too much", and stating that he was opening up other members of the Royal Family to criticism.
Other critics, including Nick Ferrari, suggested that the airing of the series — which will feature stories from high-profile guests including Glenn Close and Lady Gaga — should have been delayed following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.
However, what all of these criticisms disregard is the Duke of Sussex's longstanding commitment to speak out about mental health issues. Well before his and Meghan Markle's explosive interview with Winfrey, Harry has made a point to speak candidly about his own struggles, as well as the epidemic we're seeing when it comes to mental health amongst men.
From first opening up in 2017 about his grief surrounding his mother's death to his thoughts on therapy, we break down the times that the Prince has helped fuel conversations on this important topic, ahead of his new Apple TV+ docuseries...
Alongside Prince William and Kate Middleton, Harry founded the mental health charity, Heads Together, in May of 2016.
Since then, the non-profit has partnered with the 2017 London Marathon, where 750 runners participated in a Mental Health Marathon.
More recently, in 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge alongside the Duke and Duchess of Sussex launched Shout — an affiliate of Crisis Text Line, which offers free, confidential mental health support through text in the UK. As of November of the same year, the programme facilitated over half a million conversations about mental health.
In 2017, Prince Harry spoke about his personal mental health struggles for the first time — in regards to his mother's tragic death.
Diana, the Princess of Wales, died in 1997, following a car crash. In an interview with the Telegraph's Bryony Gordon, Harry revealed that he had sought counselling after "20 years of not thinking about the death of my mother" and "two years of total chaos in my life".
"I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well," he told the publication, before disclosing that it was his brother, Prince William, who encouraged him to seek out professional help.
"And then I started to have a few conversations. And actually all of a sudden, all of this grief that I have never processed started to come to the forefront and I was, like, 'there is actually a lot of stuff here that I need to deal with'."
"I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and sort of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle," he continued to Gordon — who is the host of the Mad World podcast, on which the prince appeared.
Harry added that boxing had "saved" him, as he was "on the verge of punching someone, so being able to punch someone who had pads was certainly easier".
In an essay Gordon wrote about landing the interview, the journalist expressed how surprised she was about the candid nature of their conversation. "Was this really happening? I mean really really?" Gordon stated. "Were we finally living in an era where even a representative of one of the most buttoned-up, traditional institutions on the planet might feel able to talk about the troubles in their head?"
Following his conversation with Gordon, Harry's willingness to speak about his mental health struggles was praised by various experts.
Per the Guardian, Sir Simon Wessely — President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists — said that he had achieved more in terms of communicating mental health issues in a 25-minute interview than he had in his 25-year career.
"He has a reach across the world that people like me can only dream of – he will have communicated in a way that I have been working all my life to achieve," he said.
Marjorie Wallace, founder of the mental health charity, Sane, corroborated: "It’s done more good than many, many campaigns. It’s given a message of hope that feelings left for too long can become malignant – but that it is never too late to seek help."
While much of the criticism around his upcoming docuseries with Winfrey revolves around him using footage of his mother's funeral, Harry has been open about the fact that speaking about her death has been difficult. However, he has continued to do so in order to raise awareness about the grieving process.
Harry, alongside William, first talked about their mother in 2007, during an interview with Fearne Cotton ahead of The Concert for Diana. "There's not a day that goes past that we don't think about her and miss her influence," the princes told the presenter. "She was a massive example to both of us. It's one of those things that's very sad, but you learn to deal with it, and there's plenty of other people who have the same or worse problems that we've had."
Since then, Harry has been increasingly open about the grief he still has to contend with. In an emotional ITV documentary in 2019, he described the loss of his mother as a "wound that festers".
He continued: "I think being part of this family, in this role, in this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back, so in that respect, it's the worst reminder of her life, as opposed to the best."
Earlier this year, the prince opened up about the loss of his mother in a sweet forward for a book that was released to support bereaved children and young people whose loved ones have passed away from Covid-19. The book, called Hospital by the Hill, was published to mark the National Day of Reflection in the UK, on March 23rd.
Stating that Diana's death "left a huge hole inside of me", he wrote: "I know how you feel, and I want to assure you that over time that hole will be filled with so much love and support.”
He continued that when a parent dies "their spirit, their love and the memories of them do not" and "they are always with you and you can hold onto them forever".
In March of this year, Prince Harry proved his commitment to driving change in the wellness sector by landing a job working for coaching and mental health firm, Better Up.
Speaking about his decision to join BetterUp, the prince asserted:
"I firmly believe that focusing on and prioritising our mental fitness unlocks potential and opportunity that we never knew we had inside of us. As the Royal Marine Commandos say, ‘It’s a state of mind.’ We all have it in us. What I’ve learned in my own life is the power of transforming pain into purpose.
"During my decade in the military, I learned that we don’t just need to build physical resilience, but also mental resilience. And in the years since, my understanding of what resilience means — and how we can build it — has been shaped by the thousands of people and experts I’ve been fortunate to meet and learn from."
Published 10:17 22 May 2021 GMT
Prince Harry has claimed that the Royal Family showed "total neglect" for his wife Meghan Markle's mental health.
The Duke of Sussex made the revelation in a series of interviews with Oprah Winfrey on his new AppleTV+ show titled The Me You Can't See.
In the five-part mental health series, Harry opened up about his family's response to Meghan's "struggling" mental state when the pair lived at the palace as senior members of the royal family.
Meghan famously revealed the lack of support she received from not only Harry's family but royal aides who worked at the palace during her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in March.
The Duchess of Sussex revealed she was feeling suicidal and after reaching out for help, she claimed she was told that nothing can be done.
Now Harry has spoken out about his wife's experience, saying that his family showed "total neglect" for Meghan's health, per Sky News.
Admitting that he felt abandoned by his relatives, Harry revealed that this was one of their "biggest reasons" for leaving for California last year.
He told Oprah: "Certainly now I will never be bullied into silence. I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence, total neglect.
"We spent four years trying to make it work. We did everything that we possibly could to stay there and carry on doing the role and doing the job. But Meghan was struggling."
He added: "That feeling of being trapped within the family, there was no option to leave. Eventually, when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, 'You can't do this', And it's like, 'Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?'. She [Meghan] was going to end her life. It shouldn't have to get to that."
Harry then mentioned that Meghan even described how she would end her life while pregnant with son Archie in 2019.
He told Oprah: "The thing that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me after everything that had happened to my mum and to be in a position of losing another woman in my life with a baby inside of her, our baby."
Speaking to Oprah in March, Meghan revealed just how much she was struggling mentally during her time at the palace.
During the interview, Meghan - who is currently pregnant with the pair's second child - spoke honestly about her mental health and said she had suicidal thoughts during her time in the royal family.
She told Oprah she "didn't want to be alive anymore" and when asked directly if she was thinking of self-harm and having suicidal thoughts at some stage, Meghan replied "yes". She says Harry "cradled her" when she told him, and he later admitted it sent him to a "dark place".
Published 15:49 21 May 2021 GMT
Prince Harry's new mental health documentary series with Oprah Winfrey has once again shone a light on the Royal Family, and their alleged treatment of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
As well as accusing "The Firm" of "total silence" and "neglect" in regards to Meghan Markle, Harry spoke with refreshing honesty about his own struggles. He revealed that he turned to drink and drugs to help him contend with royal life, and the enduring grief he felt over the loss of his mother, the late Princess Diana.
However over the course of Apple TV+'s The Me You Can't See, the one common thread that the duke kept coming back to was the nature of the Royal Family, and their alleged refusal to allow change that would have helped not only Harry, Meghan and Diana — but other members of the palace too.
Below, we take a look at seven shocking claims Harry makes in the upcoming five-part series.
Harry claims the Royal Family of "total silence" and "neglect" when Meghan Markle was "struggling" with suicidal feelings, while she was pregnant with their first child, Archie.
This, he said, made him feel "helpless".
"Meghan decided to share with me the suicidal thoughts and the practicalities of how she was going to end her life," he told Winfrey. "I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever, it is just got met with total silence, total neglect.
"We spent four years trying to make it work. We did everything that we possibly could to stay there and carry on doing the role and doing the job. But Meghan was struggling. But certainly now, I will never be bullied into silence."
In the couple's initial interview with Winfrey back in March, the Duchess of Sussex was candid about her mental health, saying: "I was ashamed to say it at the time and ashamed to have to admit it to Harry because of how much loss he suffered.
"But I knew that if I didn’t say it I would do it – because I just didn’t want to be alive anymore. I didn’t want to be alive anymore. That was a very clear and real and frightening, constant thought. And I remember, I remember how he just cradled me."
Speaking about his "puzzling life", Harry asserted that "there was no protection" for Diana, or him and William as young princes.
"When I think about my mum, the first thing that comes to mind is always the same one, over and over again: strapped in the car, seatbelt across, with my brother in the car as well, and my mother driving, being chased by three, four five, mopeds, with paparazzi," he explained.
"And she was almost unable to drive because of the tears. There was no protection. One of the feelings that comes up with me all the time is the helplessness. Being too young, being a guy, but too young to help a woman, in this case, your mother. And that happened every single day. Every single day until the day she died."
The 36-year-0ld revealed that his mother was never spoken about by the Royal Family following her death. "No one was talking about it," he asserted.
He added that he felt that there was "no justice at all" following her passing on August 31st 1997, following a car crash in Paris. "I was so angry with what happened to her and the fact that there was no justice at all," he continued.
"Nothing came from that. The same people who chased her into the tunnel, photographed her dying in the backseat of that car,” he told Winfrey, adding that he also didn’t want to think about his mother 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 just going to make me sad."
The Duke of Sussex revealed that he used to drink a week's worth of alcohol in order to try to cope with the death of his mother, the Princess of Wales, as well as the "hectic" pressures of being a working royal.
Detailing "a nightmare time in my life", aged 28 to 32, Harry described experiencing panic attacks and severe anxiety. "I was just all over the place mentally," he explained. "Every time I put a suit on and tie on... having to do the role, and go, 'right, game face,' look in the mirror and say, 'let's go'. Before I even left the house I was pouring with sweat. I was in fight or flight mode."
"I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling," he continued, detailing how he would drink a week's worth of alcohol on a Friday or Saturday night, "not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something.
"People who are hurt, understandably hurt, from their upbringing, their environment, what's happened to them, what they've been exposed to, what they've seen — whatever it is — if you don't transform, if you don't process it, then it ends up coming out and in all sorts of different ways and you can't control."
While the Duke of Sussex is determined to speak out in order to "end the cycle", he revealed that his father used to tell him and Prince William that it would never end.
"It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life. The list is growing. And it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry," he said. "Because my father used to say to me when I was younger, he used to say to both William and I, 'Well it was like that for me so it’s gonna be like that for you.'"
This is a mindset that does not resonate with the prince: "[It] doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered, that doesn’t mean that your kids have to suffer. In fact, quite the opposite. If you’ve suffered, do whatever you can to make sure that whatever experiences, negative experiences you had, that you can make it right for your kids."
While Harry has now undertaken extensive therapy, he told Winfrey that, "I wasn’t in an environment [in the Royal Family] where it was encouraged to not talk about it, either. That was sort of squashed."
Here, Harry is alluding to the mental health struggles he experienced while serving as a senior royal, as well as contending with the grief following his mother's passing.
The prince later sought therapy, but it was meeting Meghan that really changed things for the prince. "I saw doctors, I saw therapists, I saw alternative therapists. I saw all sorts of people. But it was meeting and being with Meghan, I knew that if I didn't do therapy and fix myself, that I was going to lose this woman who I could see spending the rest of my life with."
Harry also claimed that The Firm attempted to discredit him and Meghan prior to their explosive CBS interview with Winfrey.
The expectant father-of-two said that Meghan woke up in their California home, "crying in her pillow", after she had read of Buckingham Palace's decision to launch a probe into bullying claims reported by 10 of their former aides — the majority of the allegations were levelled against the duchess.
"Before the Oprah interview had aired, because of their headlines and that combined effort of The Firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her crying in her pillow – because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much," he continued. "That’s heartbreaking. I held her. We talked. She cried and she cried and she cried."
Published 19:31 08 Mar 2021 GMT
Prince Harry has revealed that he feels "compassion" for his father Prince Charles and his brother Prince William since the two of them are "trapped" in royal life as heirs to the throne.
Speaking candidly in the recent interview with Oprah Winfrey and alongside his wife Meghan Markle, the 36-year-old Duke of Sussex spoke about how his controversial decision to retire from public life in early 2020.
During the interview, Winfrey questioned Harry on whether or not he would have stepped down from the Royal Family if he had never met Meghan.
Oprah questions how Harry felt "trapped":To which, Harry replied: "I wouldn't have been able to because I myself was trapped.
"I didn't see a way out. I was trapped, but I didn't know I was trapped, but the moment that I met Meg, and our worlds collided in the most amazing of ways and then [I began] to see how trapped within the system, like, the rest of my family are."
Harry was then asked by the legendary presenter how he felt "trapped" after being "raised in a palace" and "in a life of privilege".
"Trapped within a system. Like the rest of my family are," he replied. "My father and my brother, they are trapped. They don't get to leave, and I have huge compassion for that."
When Oprah said that Prince Harry has never appeared "trapped" and seemed to be enjoying his life as a Royal, the prince responded by saying: "Enjoying [royal] life because there were photographs of me smiling while I was shaking hands and meeting people?"
Harry then said that it was simply "part of the job".
Per Sky News, Harry also stated that he and his father had suffered a rift in their relationship as a result of his choice to move away from the family, and that the Prince of Wales had stopped answering his calls for a time.
Nevertheless, Harry told Winfrey that he will always love his father, explaining:
"I feel really let down because he's been through something similar, he knows what pain feels like, and Archie's his grandson.
"But at the same time - I will always love him - but there's a lot of hurt that's happened and I will continue to make it one of my priorities to try and heal that relationship. But they only know what they know, or what they're told."
The prince added that there had been discussions about the skin color of his son Archie prior to his birth and that these racial undertones prompted, in part, his decision to leave the Royal Family.
Harry stated: "The family [has] a mentality of: 'This is how it is, you can’t change it, we’ve all been through it.'
"But what was different here was the race element. That triggered the conversations with my family and palace staff where I said: 'This is not going to end well.'"
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