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Prince Harry says always felt 'different' from other UK royals

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="(L-R) Britain" s="" Princess="" of="" Prince="" Duke="" and="" Duchess="" Sussex="" on="" the="" long="" Walk="" at="" Windsor="" Castle="" Sept.="" before="" meeting="" well-wishers.="" Kirsty="" Pool="" AFP="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/afp/01/04/20220910-queen-elizabeth-wiliam-harry-afp-1.jpg"/><figcaption>(L-R) Britain&#x27;s Catherine, Princess of Wales, Britain&#x27;s Prince William, Prince of Wales, Britain&#x27;s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex on the long Walk at Windsor Castle on Sept. 10, 2022, before meeting well-wishers. Kirsty O&#x27;Connor, Pool/AFP/File </figcaption></figure></div>LONDON — Prince Harry reportedly revealed he has long felt &quot;slightly different&quot; to the rest of Britain&#x27;s royal family in an interview on Saturday with a trauma expert.In a wide-ranging discussion with Dr Gabor Mate, Harry, 38, described himself as coming from a &quot;broken home&quot; and said he was trying not to pass &quot;trauma&quot; onto his children, according to reports of the live-streamed conversation. The interview follows the January publication of the prince&#x27;s controversial memoir, &quot;Spare&quot;, in which he admitted his adolescence was marked by drugs and alcohol and detailed the breakdown in his relationships with father King Charles III, and brother William.&quot;I certainly have felt throughout my life, my younger years, I felt slightly different to the rest of my family,&quot; Harry told Mate, according to numerous media reports on the interview.&quot;I felt strange being in this container, and I know that my mum felt the same so it makes sense to me,&quot; he added, referring to his late mother Princess Diana.Harry went on to credit his wife Meghan Markle for having &quot;saved&quot; him. &quot;I was stuck in this world, and she was from a different world and helped draw me out of that,&quot; he said, describing her as &quot;an exceptional human being&quot;.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/01/09/23/prince-harry-says-memoirs-written-to-combat-spin-and-distortion">Prince Harry says memoirs written to combat &#x27;spin and distortion&#x27;</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/03/02/23/britains-prince-harry-loses-home-on-royal-estate-reports">Britain&#x27;s Prince Harry loses home on royal estate: reports</a></li></ul>During the conversation, Mate -- the author of several books on trauma, addiction and illness -- publicly diagnosed Harry with attention deficit disorder (ADD). Summarising the prince&#x27;s life, which has included losing his mother at the age of 12 and later serving with Britain&#x27;s armed forces in Afghanistan, Mate said there was &quot;a lot of trauma and suffering&quot;.California-based Harry, who quit the UK and royal life with Meghan in 2020 amid a rift with the monarchy, opened up about his parenting style towards their two children, three-year-old Archie and one-year-old Lilibet.&quot;I feel a huge responsibility not to pass on any trauma or negative experiences that I&#x27;ve had as a kid or as a man growing up,&quot; he said.&quot;There are times when I catch myself when I should be smothering them with that love but I might not be.&quot;He added that together with Meghan they were trying to learn &quot;from our own past and overlapping those mistakes, perhaps, and growing to break that cycle&quot;.In his memoir, Harry acknowledges using cannabis regularly earlier in life, and cocaine on several occasions when he was a teenager, saying he was &quot;willing to try almost anything that would alter the pre-established order&quot;.He reiterated to Mate that cocaine &quot;didn&#x27;t do anything for me&quot; but said marijuana was &quot;different&quot;. &quot;That actually really did help me,&quot; he said, according to Britain&#x27;s Press Association.The publication of &quot;Spare&quot; -- in which Harry claims elder brother William attacked him during an argument about Meghan -- is said to have significantly worsened relations between the self-exiled couple and other senior royals.It remains unclear whether they will attend Charles&#x27; landmark coronation in early May.© Agence France-Presse

Prince Harry reportedly revealed he has long felt 'slightly different' to the rest of Britain's royal family in an interview on Saturday with a trauma expert.