It was just over two months ago that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave their landmark interview to Oprah, with revelations that rocked the monarchy and painted a damning picture of royal life. And now the Duke of Sussex has spoken at length once more in a different, but equally frank, interview about his upbringing and how he has come to see the world.
Harry spoke to Dax Shepherd and Monica Padman for 90 minutes on the podcast Armchair Expert. The discussion centered around mental health ahead of the Prince’s upcoming series for Apple TV+ on the subject with Oprah: The Me You Can’t See. And Harry was happy to be open about his personal struggles, seeking therapy and his thoughts on his upbringing.
“Isn’t life about breaking the cycle?” the Prince said when asked by Monica about parenting and whether he was trying to parent in the opposite direction to how he was brought up. “There’s 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 that I break that cycle so that I don’t pass it on basically. There’s a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway, as parents we should be doing the most that we can to try and say ‘you know what that happened to me, I’m going to…
