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Prince Harry is seeing a therapist because he’s scared he might end up being a bad father, like he feels his own dad, King Charles, was to him and his late mother, Princess Diana.
People close to Harry say he still carries deep emotional pain from how Charles treated Diana. He especially hates the way Charles acted right after Harry was born. Diana once shared that when she gave birth to Harry, Charles made a cruel comment about the baby having red hair, which hurt her badly. He even hinted that Harry might not be his child, since Diana had once been close to a red-haired army officer named James Hewitt. Diana said that moment made her emotionally shut down.
She also said she didn’t tell Charles that she was having a boy, because she knew he wanted a girl. After Harry was born, his father made rude comments about Diana’s body, which made her feel worthless. At one point, she began harming herself because of all the emotional pain.
Now, Harry, who has two young children, Archie (6) and Lilibet (4), with his wife Meghan Markle, is determined not to pass that pain down to his own kids. A source said that Meghan has encouraged Harry to focus on mental health, and that he’s using therapy to make sure he doesn’t repeat the same mistakes his father made. The goal, the source said, is for Harry to be the best dad he can be.
Harry reportedly still struggles with how his father handled Princess Diana’s death in 1997. He was only 12 at the time, and he and Prince William were forced to walk behind their mother’s coffin during the funeral. Harry has said that this experience and Charles’s lack of emotion afterwards left a lifelong scar.
He also wants to make sure Meghan never goes through the depression that Diana suffered after becoming a young mother. Diana said she had severe post-natal depression after giving birth to William and that no one in the royal family helped her through it, even though she was clearly struggling. She said she felt ashamed and completely alone, and eventually began hurting herself just to express her inner pain.
In a now-famous interview, Diana explained that when someone feels so low and misunderstood, they sometimes harm themselves not for attention, but as a cry for real help. She felt that instead of support, the royals labeled her as “unstable.”
She even said that when she was four months pregnant with William, she threw herself down the stairs because she was so desperate for Charles to care and listen. Instead, she said, Charles dismissed her pain and walked away, saying she was being dramatic.
These deep, painful memories are still with Harry today. And according to insiders, he’s working hard to heal from them, not just for himself, but so his children grow up in a home filled with love, support, and understanding, not silence and emotional coldness.
He doesn’t want Archie and Lilibet to feel what he once felt.
Credits – RadarOnline