‘Heart of Invictus’: Three bombshells from Prince Harry
From a suspected dig at the royal family to hanging up his military uniform, here’s three bombshells from Prince Harry.
The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry dropped a few bombshells on his new Netflix series Heart of Invictus which released on Wednesday 30 August.
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‘HEART OF INVICTUS’
Prince Harry’s docuseries Heart of Invictus landed on Netflix on Wednesday 30 August.
Heart of Invictus is a documentary following the story of six individuals on their healing journeys as they compete in the 2022 Invictus Games. The Invictus Games was founded by Prince Harry to aid wounded and injured servicemen and women back in 2014.
The docuseries is directed by Orlando von Einsiedel (Virunga). Prince Harry is the executive producer. On the docuseries, the Duke of Sussex dropped a few bombshells.
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THREE BOMBSHELLS FROM PRINCE HARRY
1. THE DUKE STRUGGLED TO FEEL EMOTION AFTER PRINCESS DIANA’S DEATH
On the fourth episode of the series, Prince Harry revealed that he struggled to feel emotion after the death of his mother – Princess Diana, who died in a car crash. He made the comment in a one-on-one conversational with Darrell Ling, who competed in the Invictus Games in the indoor rowing category for Canada.
Harry talked about how he had been affected by the “trauma” of losing his mother, saying: “I had no emotion, I was unable to cry, I was unable to feel. I didn’t know it at the time.
“And it wasn’t until later in my life aged 28 there was a circumstance that happened that the first few bubbles started coming out and then suddenly it was like someone shook and it went ‘poof’.. and then it was chaos.”
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2. HANGING UP MILITARY UNIFORM
Harry served in the military for a decade up until 2015. In the third episode, the Duke of Sussex alluded to his service during a video call with some of the Invictus Games competitors, who spoke about “hanging up” their uniforms. However, he added that being in the military will never leave them.
He said: “But, thank you for putting so much into this, right? You did it every day, wearing [a]
3. PRINCE HARRY TAKES ANOTHER JAB AT ROYAL FAMILY?
Heart of Invictus, Prince Harry’s Netflix series launched today – Wednesday 30 August. The Duke of Sussex is at the forefront of the series along with injured veterans.
Prince Harry’s wife Meghan Markle made a brief appearance in the series. The Duke of Sussex explained it was only when he returned from war that he became aware of trauma he still had from Diana dying in Paris in 1997 when he was 12 years old. He seemingly took another dig at the royal family when he claimed that he had no support when he returned from Afghanistan.
“Biggest struggle for me was no one around me really could help. I didn’t have that support structure, that network or that expert advice to identify what was actually going on with me,” he said.
“Unfortunately, like most of us, the first time you consider therapy is when you are lying on the floor in the foetal position probably wishing you had dealt with some of this stuff previously. And that’s what I really want to change,” he continued.
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