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Prince William ‘worried’ about Harry after ‘emotional and unwise’ TV interview

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Updated on October 21, 2019

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According to a Kensington Palace insider, the Duke of Cambridge is “worried” about his brother’s mental health after he spoke about it in a TV program.

The Duke of Cambridge hopes Harry and Meghan are ‘all right’ after they acknowledged the impact of harassment on them both in the ITV documentary Harry and Meghan: An African Journey, which aired last night.

Meghan and Harry are believed to be “in a fragile place,” according to a palace insider.

It’s not difficult to see why this might be the case. Meghan has been plagued by rumors and invasions of privacy, so hearing directly from her (and Harry) about their difficulties with the heavy attention is painful but not unexpected.

The pair discussed the impact of media attention on their mental health in the program. “Not many people have asked if I’m Ok,” Markle said.

“Look, part of this job and part of any job, like everybody, means putting on a brave face and turning a cheek to a lot of the stuff. But again, for me and for my wife, of course, there’s a lot of stuff that hurts — especially when the majority of it is untrue,” Harry said of the media scrutiny.

“But all we need to do is focus on being real, focus on being the people we are and standing up for what we believe in. I will not be bullied into carrying a game that killed my mum,” he said, referring to Princess Diana’s death in 1997.

Meghan also said that adapting to life as a member of the royal family was ‘hard’, and that she ‘really tried to adopt this British sensibility of a stiff upper lip.’

Meghan went on to assure Bradby that if the criticism was fair, she would understand it.

“I never thought that this would be easy, but I thought it would be fair. And that’s the part that’s really hard to reconcile,” she said. “If things were fair … If I’d done something wrong, I’d be the first one to go ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry. I would never do that,’ ” she continued.

“But when people are saying things that are just untrue and they are being told they’re untrue but they’re allowed to still say them — I don’t know anybody in the world who would feel like that’s okay.”

“It’s been a real struggle,” Meghan said when asked whether it was appropriate to call it that.

“When I first met my now-husband my friends were really happy because I was so happy,” she added.

“But my British friends said to me, ‘I’m sure he’s great but you shouldn’t do it because the British tabloids will destroy your life’.”

‘I very naively – I’m American, we don’t have that there – said, “What are you talking about? That doesn’t make any sense, I’m not in tabloids.” I didn’t get it. So it’s, yeah, it’s been complicated.’

Mr. Fitzwilliams said that Prince Harry’s outburst showed a “serious lack of judgment.”

He said: “I think that Harry and Meghan’s interviews in the ITV documentary were very emotional and extremely unwise.”

“William is clearly concerned about Harry after it was screened which is no surprise as both he and Meghan are clearly struggling and have said so.

“However this is almost totally unprecedented, you have to go back to Diana on Panorama to find anything similar.

“He revealed that he was having trouble managing his mental health issues and this illustrates the huge pressure the couple feel under.”

Meghan is suing the Mail on Sunday for breaching her privacy after it published a private letter between her and her estranged father. The Duke and Duchess have each launched separate legal proceedings against sections of the press.

Meghan and Prince Harry will take a six-week vacation from royal duties before Christmas, according to the Sunday Times, which was published before the documentary aired on Sunday.