Prince Harry opens up about pains of losing his mother Diana

Prince Harry has starred in a new video talking about grief, urging children and young people to talk about their emotions.

 The royal, who was speaking in his role as a global ambassador for Scotty’s Little Soldiers, which supports youngsters who have lost parents in the military, shared his own insight after losing his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, at just 12.

 ‘It’s so easy as a kid to think or convince yourself. you convince yourself that the person you’ve lost wants you, or you need to be sad for as long as possible to prove to them that they are missed. But then there’s this realisation of, no, they must want me to be happy,’ he says.

 Harry, 39, who has railed in recent years against what he claims was a lack of family support after his mother’s tragic death in 1997, which he believes led him to bottle up his emotions and, eventually, seek therapy, added:

 ‘That’s the hardest thing, especially for kids, I think, which is, "I don’t want to talk about it because it will make me sad, but once realising that if I do talk about it, I’m celebrating their life, then actually, things become easier.

as opposed to this "I’m just not going to talk about it, and that’s the best form of coping", when in fact it’s not. It can be for a period of time…you can’t suppress it for ever. It’s not sustainable. And will eat away at you inside...Read more