Opinion: The whole Harry thing is just sad. I can’t be the only one wincing as I peer through my fingers
Help him to sort things out with his brother and encourage him to be honest but loyal. Talk about what forgiveness might look like. Tell him to take responsibility for his own actions .Because the damage from Harry’s post-traumatic injury burns like a flame in all of his interviews. A boy who was not hugged by his father when his mother suddenly died. Who for many years harboured fantasies, believing Diana had staged her own death and would return to collect him one day.
As psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk wrote in his bestselling and seminal work on the enduring impact of psychological trauma,, “Being traumatised means continuing to organise your life as if the trauma were still going on — unchanged and immutable — as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.”
Think of how terrified Harry has been that he or his wife might be killed, that history might be repeated, that he might be a single father – and how the royals kept paying for Prince Andrew’s security but not his own, despite the death threats.better understanding of childhood traumaMuch of van der Kolk’s book could be applied to Harry: “If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured.
Harry was not ignored and was immensely privileged, but according to his account, he was not nurtured after the death of Diana, not understood and not cared for when needed. He was the expendable “spare”. Charles has since apologised that he had not got him help earlier. The lad is still grieving. And yet, the stories of family rifts continue – imagine your family leaking private conversations, feeding the media stories about siblings of children to make themselves look better.The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own.
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