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Privacy NoticePrince Harry has been seen speaking publicly for the first time in months, as he spoke about how grief can “eat away at you” in a heartbreaking statement. He joined Scotty’s Little Soldiers founder Nikki Scott for a frank conversation on what it’s like to be a child who loses a parent. Harry lost his mother when he was only 12 years old after Princess Diana lost her life in a car crash in Paris in 1997, and spoke gracefully in this video about what it’s like to be a child who has just received the worst news of their life. In his chat with Nikki, Harry spoke openly about grief as a child, saying that when he was twelve he did not have a full understanding of how to get through the experience.
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He spoke at length with Nikki about how children navigate grief, and opened up about how he really struggled with experiencing it at such a young age. He told Nikki: “you convince yourself that the person that you’ve lost wants you to be sad for as long as possible to prove that they’re missed. “Then there’s this realisation of ‘they must want me to be happy.’”
Prince Harry is a big advocate of childrens’ mental health
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He also spoke about how grief is impossible to keep down. That you simply have to feel it. He said: “you can’t suppress it forever, it’s not sustainable. It will eat away at you inside.” Nikki founded Scotty’s Little Soldiers in memory of her late husband, Corporal Lee Scott, who was killed in Afghanistan. Harry began opening up to her in this clip after she shared how gut wrenching it was to have to tell her children that their father had been killed.
Prince William And Prince Harry With King Charles at his mothers’ funeral (Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)
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She said the awful feeling of having to change her childrens’ reality forever inspired her to start a community for people who had lost their parents. She said: “it makes you want to bring that community back. We can’t fix what happened, we can’t bring your parents back, but we can make sure you have the very best support.” Harry told her: “what you’ve done is incredible. It is, I mean, truly inspirational.” Harry also served in Afghanistan twice. First as an air controller and second as a helicopter pilot. He has a history of working with military charities. One of his most public facing roles is as the patron of the Invictus Games, a sporting competition for injured service-members. Now his involvement with Scotty’s Little Soldiers will hopefully bring many smiles to children facing a seemingly impossible road ahead.Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnPrince HarryPrincess Diana
