Prince Harry says he wants to be a better father than his father Prince Charles and grandfather Prince Phillip were.
When asked if he is parenting in an “opposite direction” from the very specific way he was raised as a royal, Harry, who is expecting his second child, a girl, with Meghan, said yes.
“It’s very much a case of … isn’t life about breaking the cycle,” said Harry. “There’s no blame. I don’t think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody, but certainly when it comes to parenting, if I’ve experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering that perhaps my father or my parents had suffered, I’m going to make sure that I break that cycle so I don’t pass it on.”
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“There’s a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway. As parents, we should be doing the most that we can to try and say, ‘You know what, that happened to me. I’m going to make sure that doesn’t happen to you,'” he said.
Presumably speaking about his father, Prince Charles, Harry added, “It’s really hard to do. But for me, it comes down to awareness. I never saw it. I never knew about it. And then suddenly I started to piece it all together and go, ‘OK, so this is where he went to school. This is what happened. I know this bit about his life. I also know that’s connected to his parents. So that means that he’s treating me the way that he was treated. Which means, how can I change that for my own kids?'”
“Well, here I am. I’ve now moved my whole family to the U.S.,” he said. “Well, that wasn’t the plan. But sometimes you’ve got to make decisions and put your family first and put your mental health first.”
