EFE.- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, said it is “not sustainable” to suppress “forever” feelings of grief over the death of a loved one, during an emotional conversation on the subject with a British charity.
Prince Harry, the youngest son of King Charles III, spoke with Nikki Scott, founder of Scotty’s Little Soldiers, an organization that helps families of military personnel in the United Kingdom cope with the loss of a loved one, in a meeting recorded on video and released today by local media.
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In the conversation, the Duke of Sussex, who was only 12 years old when he lost his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in a tragic traffic accident in Paris, gave his opinion on the mechanisms for coping with the death of a loved one.
“You convince yourself that the person you lost wants or needs you to be sad for as long as possible to show them that you miss them. But then you realize that no, they must want you to be happy,” she said.
In the video released by the organization, Scott also recalled the moment when she herself had to tell her son, in 2009, that her husband had been killed in Afghanistan, where the Duke of Sussex also served: “It shattered his world. It was the worst. How do you tell this to a five-year-old child?”
Harry, an ambassador for the organisation, which has collaborated with him at events aimed at children, describes how difficult it is to talk about feelings of loss.
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“That’s the hardest thing, especially for kids, is ‘I don’t want to talk about it because it will make me sad. ’ But once you realize that if you talk about it, and you celebrate their life, then things actually get easier,” she said.
For Harry, “if you suppress this for too long, you can’t suppress it forever, it’s not sustainable and it will eat you up inside.”
The duke currently lives in the United States with his wife, Meghan, and their two young children, Archie and Lillibet, and maintains a tense relationship with his father, the British monarch, who is undergoing treatment for an unspecified cancer, as well as with his older brother, William.
