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Prince Harry has opened up about his relationship with grief in an emotional conversation with a charity founder who helps military families facing the loss of loved ones.
In a video released by the charity, Scotty’s Little Soldiers founder and widow Nikki Scott tells the prince of the moment in 2009 she told to her son that her husband had been killed.
Corporal Lee Scott was killed in Afghanistan while serving with the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment
“It shattered his world. It was the worst,” she says. “How do you tell a five-year-old this?”
The Duke of Sussex, a global ambassador for the charity, then describes how difficult talking about feelings of loss can be.
“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’re missed,”
Harry’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, died when he was 12 in aa car crash.
“That’s the hardest thing, especially for kids, which is, ‘I don’t want to talk about it because it will make me sad,’” he says.
“But once realising that if I do talk about it, and I’m celebrating their life, then actually, things become easier, as opposed to this, ‘I am just not going to talk about it and that’s best form of coping,’ when in fact it’s not.” said the prince.
“If you suppress this for too long, you cannot suppress it for ever, it is not sustainable and it will eat away at you inside.”