Prince Harry has received an unexpected boost of support from an unlikely royal who says “everyone is bullying him” and that he’s “just traumatised” in a rare interview
An unexpected royal has admitted she “feels sorry” for Prince Harry in a bombshell interview. The Duke of Sussex is currently embroiled in a bitter rift with his father, King Charles and brother Prince William after levelling a series of accusations against them in his Netflix show and memoir, Spare.
However, hopes of a reconciliation between Harry and his dad, the King, have been sparked after senior aides for father and son were spotted meeting at a private members’ club in London. But discussing Harry’s situation on a podcast was Princess Delphine of Belgium, who claimed she ‘understands’ the Duke’s plight and said that “everyone is bullying him”.
The princess herself has also experienced family turmoil as she is the illegitimate daughter of Belgium’s former monarch, King Albert II. A DNA test proved her paternity, and she later won a landmark ruling to be called a princess and styled as “Her Royal Highness”.
And speaking on the It’s Reigning Men podcast, she said: “I do follow a little bit of Harry because Lady Diana was just part of my life when I was in England… Then she had these children and everything, and then this death was just horrible…
“I feel very sorry for Harry because I think that was traumatic for him. I think Harry suffered so much, and I think he was traumatised and it’s coming out now.”
Referencing his recent security battle, she added: “This thing about security. I think it’s to do with what happened to his mother.
“I understand the guy. He’s just traumatised. And I understand, so he’s doing these things, and everybody’s bullying him, but not thinking about his trauma. And I just find it terrible because he’s just been kind of left.”
The European royals’ comments about Harry come as he has retraced the steps of his mother, Princess Diana, during a trip to Angola. Harry visited an Angolan minefield 28 years after his mother’s famous visit in the same country.
Harry, as a patron of landmine clearance charity the Halo Trust, spoke to families in a remote village near Africa’s largest minefield yesterday.
He gave children in Cuito Cuanavale advice on avoiding detonating mines, telling them in Portuguese: “Stop, go back and tell your elders.” The duke was highlighting the threat of the munitions in Angola, the same nation Diana, Princess of Wales, visited in 1997 to urge the world to ban the weapons.
On Tuesday, he met Angola’s President Joao Lourenco and welcomed the leader’s intention to continue support for the removal of landmines left from the civil war that ended in 2002.
Months before she died in a car crash, Diana, wearing a protective visor and vest, walked through a minefield being cleared by the Halo Trust.
She strode through a cleared path in a Huambo minefield, and the images of her in body armour and a mask gave the anti-landmine campaign global recognition.
Harry, who also echoed Diana in a 2019 visit to an Angolan minefield, said: “Children should never have to live in fear of playing outside or walking to school. Here in Angola, over three decades later, the remnants of war still threaten lives every day.”