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Broadcast this Thursday, December 8, the first three episodes of the documentary on the life of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are already causing a lot of ink to flow. The first part looks back on Prince Harry’s childhood and in particular the loss of his mother, Lady Diana. Clinical psychologist Johanna Rozenblum sheds light on the consequences of this trauma on her role as husband and father.
An explosive documentary. The first three hours of the documentary on the life of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle appeared yesterday exclusively on the Netflix video platform. The sequel is scheduled for December 15.
A three-hour documentary
If we want to summarize the documentary, we can say that it is divided into three times an hour, each part being devoted to a subject: a first piece tells the childhood of Prince Harry, a second details that of Meghan Markle and a third part recounts their meeting and the first months of their relationship, kept secret for several months, before being revealed in broad daylight.
Few memories of his mother: “It’s as if I had made an internal blockage”
Prince Harry, in the part concerning his childhood, obviously evokes his mother, Lady Diana, who died when he was only 12 years old. “I don’t have any distant memories of my mum. It’s as if I had an internal blockage. But I remember her laughter, her teasing laughter. And her saying to me: ‘You can find yourself in trouble, but just don’t get caught. I’ll always have that teasing person in me”remembers the Prince, married since 2018 to ex-actress Meghan Markle and father of two children, Archie and Lilibet Diana.
Mad at the tabloids and the paparazzi
Then he angrily evokes the tabloid press, which he blames for the death of his mother in 1997, who was chased by the paparazzi. “The majority of my memories are of being invaded by the paparazzi” emphasizes the Prince. Is it this episode of his life that marked him so hard to the point of being so protective of his wife and family today? “Fearing that history will repeat itself“With his wife, often criticized for her actions by the tabloids, Prince Harry preferred to follow her by leaving the royal family to live in exile in the United States.
“Mend the sufferings of his mother”
For Johanna Rozenblum, clinical psychologist, “When you have experienced a trauma, especially in childhood, and this trauma is made aware, that is to say not repressed, the whole challenge in adulthood will be to repair yourself. Harry saw his A mother to suffer is a bereaved son. Being a helpless witness to the suffering that his wife could suffer is experienced as a traumatic reactivation. Anything he can do to repair his mother’s suffering will be projected onto his wife. helpless, he becomes a protective husband and father”.
An impossible mourning
It’s not the first time Prince Harry has spoken about his late mother, although he never got around to talking about her.”only from the age of 28” as he explains, because his passing left a “gaping hole”.
For Prince Harry, talking about the missing person who is dear to us is therapy. “You may feel lonely, you may feel sad, you may feel angry, you may feel bad. This feeling will pass. And I promise you – you will feel better and stronger once you are ready. to talk about your pain” he writes in the preface to the book for children whose parents have died of Covid-19, entitled Hospital by the hill.