The royal family has long championed mental health, backing campaigns like Heads Together, Anna Freud, and Shout 85258, to name just three, through The Royal Foundation. But it was allegedly a different story behind palace walls…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been especially vocal about mental health in recent years, with Meghan making headlines for the controversial comments she made about her own mental health during her bombshell Oprah interview in 2021. In the now-infamous interview, she alleged that the royal family refused to help her when she was struggling with her mental health, before she and Prince Harry stepped down as senior royals in 2020.
“I just didn’t want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear and real and frightening, constant thought,” Meghan recalled in the infamous interview. She went on to allege that nobody wanted to help her when she asked, and said: “I went to the institution, and I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help. I was told that I couldn’t, that it wouldn’t be good for the institution.”
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Prince Harry Didn't Want Meghan Markle To Suffer Like The Late Princess Diana Did
It's now been revealed that Prince Harry wanted to help his wife navigate her mental health, especially before and after the birth of their son, Prince Archie, and daughter, Princess Lilibet, as he didn't want her to go down the same road as his mom.
"I was unwell with post-natal depression, which no one ever discusses," the late Princess Diana confessed in her infamous 1995 BBC1 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir. "You'd wake up in the morning feeling you didn't want to get out of bed, you felt misunderstood, and just very, very low in yourself," she continued at the time.
"You have so much pain inside yourself that you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you want help, but it's the wrong help you're asking for," the late Princess of Wales added, in reference to her postpartum depression.
Prince Harry Spared No Expense
The father-of-two was desperate to break the cycle, and reportedly did whatever was needed to help the As Ever founder. And he seemingly spared no expense!
"Harry has made it clear to the world he is into mental well-being through his charity work, and spoken about the depression he and his brother suffered after their mom's death," an insider told RadarOnline.
"It made his thoughts turn to his mother's post-natal depression, and he definitely didn't want Meghan to suffer in silence," they went on, adding: "He spent a fortune getting her into therapy ahead of and after the births of both their children."
