LONDON. Losing your mother is like falling into a “black hole”. But fortunately he managed to get out of it “thanks to love and support”: he doesn’t explicitly say from whom, but we understand that he alludes to Meghan. Prince Harry is back to talk, after the storm unleashed by the interview with Oprah Winfrey given with his wife. This time the queen’s nephew, son of the next king and younger brother of the king who will come later, expresses his opinions by writing the preface to a book dedicated to orphaned children. In particular, dedicated to those who lost their mother as children. As it happened to him.
It is “Hospitality by the hill”, a fairy tale coming out in the next few days in England, written by Chris Connaughton and illustrated by Fay Troote. The volume will be donated next week to children who have lost a parent, as part of the National Day of Reflection initiatives, a British government initiative to commemorate the anniversary of the first UK lockdown and the victims of the pandemic in general. .
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The book tells the story of a boy whose mother dies while working in the hospital on the “front line” of the fight against Covid-19. And the publisher, evidently before the controversy aroused by his decision to go to live in America, then by the interview with Oprah in which together with his wife Meghan Markle he accused the royal family of racism and bullying, he decided to propose to Harry make the introduction, as the Times revealed this morning, anticipating some excerpts.
The Duke of Sussex writes that the death of his mother Diana, in 1997 in a car accident in Paris, when he was only 12 years old, left “a big hole” inside him, but that over time he managed to fill him “with love and support” thanks to the people he now has close to him: clearly Meghan and their little son Archie (a second child, female the couple revealed in the interview with Oprah, is expected for the summer). “If you are reading this book,” continues Harry’s preface, “it is because you have lost a parent or a loved one. I would like to be there to hug you right now, but I hope this story will comfort you in letting you know that you are not alone ”in having felt such pain.
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So the second son of Carlo and Diana talks about his own personal experience. “When I was little, I too lost my mother. At that time I refused to believe it and accept it. It left a big hole in me. I understand what you are feeling and I want to assure you that over time that hole will be filled with a lot of love and support ”.
Harry confesses how hard it is to admit, especially for a child, that that loved one is gone forever, but adds that loved ones and dead “will always be with you, and you can keep them close forever”, in the intimacy of heart and their memories and thoughts. And finally he tries to suggest how to overcome such a painful loss: “You may feel lonely, you may feel sad, you may feel angry and you may feel bad. But these feelings will pass. And I want to promise you this: you will feel better and stronger once you are ready to talk about how this loss makes you feel. ” Something the prince had never talked about, until an interview with the BBC a few years ago, when he revealed that he suffered from severe depression and went to a psychoanalyst to overcome the trauma of his mother’s death.
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