Late Princess Diana's Son, Prince Harry Opens Up On His Mental Health After His Mother's Death

Prince Harry, son of Prince Charles and late Princess Diana opened up on the state of his mental health in an interview with UK's Daily Telegraph after the death of his mother in 1997.


 Harry related his ordeal breaking the silence maintained by the royal family as tradition.

“I, through a lot of my twenties, was a problem and I didn’t know how to deal with it,” he says. “I was a typical 20, 25, 28 year-old running around going ‘life is great’, or ‘life is fine’ … and then 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.”

  With a stellar career in the military and a record of being the only member of the royal family to have fought in the war since his uncle, the Duke of York, in the Falklands. Prince Harry has constantly struggled with the emotions but both he and his brothers have always learnt to keep their emotions in check whether by nature or nurture he said "

Harry has  also embraced charities close to Diana’s own heart, picking up her mantle with campaigns against landmines and for HIV awareness as well as his own love of conservation and sport.

For years he has been praised for his natural way with children, employing his own juvenile side to win their confidence in all sorts of circumstances.

He describes a long, painful process of refusing to face his sense of loss that only came to an end when he was in his late 20s and sought professional counselling to cope with the pressures and unhappiness.