I keep seeing headlines about how difficult Prince Harry is being; how he is deluded, jealous, a whimpering little boy being led around by a wicked witch of a woman whose sole intent is to destroy the royal family. What I've seen, and heard, however is a man who is hurting from childhood traumas, a man who has tried desperately to talk with his father, and maybe his brother, about things that are haunting him from his childhood. There's a wounded soul inside that man who is being scrutinized far beyond what any human can bear.
I do not see how anyone could look back on Prince Harry's life and not see the signs of him crying out for help; desperate to get someone's attention and when he fails he tries something even more outrageous. Today, I see a frightened, hurting little boy living inside a grown man's body; a little boy who doesn't know how to cope with what is going on around him because he isn't capable of dealing with adulthood or the responsibility of being in line to the throne of the UK.
If Charles truly wants to do what's right, he will sit down with his son and let Prince Harry talk until he has said everything he needs to say; allowing Prince Harry to speak without interruption or judgment. King or not, he is a father with a son who is troubled and wants desperately to fix what is going on in his heart, mind and soul. A man much like his mother who feels things deeply and is forced to hold them inside even though it kills a bit of his soul and his spirit every time he has to push those hurts and feelings farther down into a hole that the established royal family hopes will never be opened or dug out.
What the British people and the media are not understanding is that this is not a disgruntled prince lashing out at the king or the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne; this is a hurting boy who does not know how to deal with the things he's dealing with lashing out at his father and older brother because they have not, and are not willing to, help him with what's going on in his heart and soul. The only two people he has left in his life that can help him deal with those things since his beloved mother was taken away from him too soon. Harry seems to be dealing with some of the same things Princess Diana dealt with, and like her, the royal family is not willing, or able, to see what's happening and help him get through them. I, for one, am praying that Harry's life doesn't go the way of his mother's. She fought too hard and worked too diligently to protect her boys and give them a good life for her struggle to have been in vain and allow Harry to live with those pains, those struggles, those hardships and those heartbreaks as she did.
