Prince Harry said he made sure his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, was “protected” and had “the right people around her”, while dismissing whether he missed his brother and father.
In an interview with Hoda Kotb on NBC’s Today show on Wednesday, the Duke of Sussex said it was “very nice” to see the Queen only on his third trip back to the UK in March 2020.
The royal king sat down with Cott while in The Hague, the Netherlands, to attend the Invictus Games, with the entire interview aired Wednesday morning.
The interview came just a year after the duke’s explosive television career with Oprah Winfrey and his wife Megan, during which the couple detailed a number of alarming allegations about their time as royalty.
Follow the live updates below as we announce the latest news from Prince Harry’s visit and learn more about what he told NBC.
Key moments so far
- Prince Harry says he makes sure the queen is “protected”
- California now feels more at home than in the United Kingdom, Duke said
- Harry and Megan Markle secretly drank tea with the Queen during a visit to Britain
- Queen was “in great shape” after a recent encounter with Covid-19
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While the Duke of Sussex noted at one point that he did not know “how many people really feel at ease,” he spoke highly of his new life in California with Megan and their family.
“Sometimes I feel extremely calm,” he told Kotb.
He also discussed his mental health and his belief that there is a “light at the end of the tunnel for all”.
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Prince Harry also discussed the “protection” of his grandmother, the Queen, and the Duke once told Cott that during his surprise visit to the monarch, he wanted to make sure she was “protected” and had the right people around her. myself”.
The Duke of Sussex also spoke of their relationship, which he described as special, and said that “they are talking about things she can’t talk about with anyone else.”
Harry’s comments come after he claimed last year during an interview with Megan Markle and Oprah Winfrey that his grandmother was badly advised by people around her.
You can read more about the Duke’s comments below.
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Perhaps one of the most surprising parts of the interview was when Prince Harry chose to dismiss the question of whether he missed his brother Prince William and his father Prince Charles.
The moment he came to confirm that, like many others, he missed his family during the pandemic, he saw Prince Harry choose to discuss the importance of his Invictus family and his own family instead.
“For me, I’m here right now to focus on these guys and these families and give everything I can,” Harry told Invictus athletes and their families. “To make sure they have the experience for a lifetime.
“This is my focus here and then I leave here, I come back and my focus is my family, which I miss very much.”
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According to the Duke, who noted that his visit with the Queen is only the third time he has returned to the UK after moving to California with his wife Megan, he wants his grandmother to meet the couple’s daughter Lillibet.
However, Harry admitted that there were some “security issues” that prevented family members from meeting.
Prince Harry’s comments come amid his case against the UK Home Office for Police Protection, which is challenging the February 2020 decision of the Executive Committee on the Protection of Royalties and Public Figures (Ravec), which he told the King, that he would no longer receive “the same degree” of personal protection when visiting the United States.
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Elsewhere in the conversation, Prince Harry discussed his home and Megan Markle in California and how the United States has begun to feel “home.”
The couple moved to the United States after retiring as senior members of the royal family in March 2020. After initially moving to Canada, they moved to Los Angeles before settling in Montecito.
According to Prince Harry, California has felt at home since then, as he noted that the community welcomed him and his family with “open arms”.
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During the interview, Prince Harry spoke about some members of his family, including his late mother, Princess Diana.
When asked if he talked about his mother with his children, especially his two-year-old son Archie, the king said he did and that he and Megan had pictures of Diana around their home.
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According to the Duke, who founded Invictus Games, an international sporting event for “injured, wounded and sick caregivers” in 2014, he is finding “treatment to help others”.
When Cott told Harry that an athlete had come to her and told her that the Invictus Games had “saved” her life, the duke told the host today that he felt “amazing” to hear it.
“But in every game I go to, I hear the same thing from so many and it’s amazing that we were able to play a role in their recovery,” he said.
However, Prince Harry said it made him “incredibly sad” to know how “gloomy it was” for the athletes competing in the Games.
The duke himself served in the army for 10 years, during which he served two tours in Afghanistan.
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The host of the show Today promised that he will do more than his interview with the Duke of Sussex, after the couple discussed a number of topics, from the secret visit of him and Megan Markle to the Queen last week to his thoughts on fatherhood.
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While Harry admitted that working from home with young children created certain difficulties, he told Cott that he loved being the father of his son and daughter.
“Everything. Chaos, learning, reminders of every element of yourself, your soul, “he said.
You can read more about what Prince Harry said about fatherhood below:
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During the second part of the interview, which focused mainly on the Invictus Games, which Prince Harry founded in 2014, Kotb talked to some of the game’s contestants about what it means to compete.
Asked what it means to be able to watch the contestants “shine”, Prince Harry told Kotb that, as far as he knows, they “still shone in their careers”.
“It goes back to the very simple thing, the power of sports,” Harry said.
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