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Prince Harry says he loves the ‘chaos and learning’ of fatherhood and revealed his two year-old son Archie loves peppering him with ‘why’ questions.
The Duke of Sussex, 37, opened up about his inquisitive toddler when he sat down to talk to NBC’s Hoda Kotb that aired Wednesday on the Today show.
‘What do I love about fatherhood? All of it. The chaos, the learning, the reminder of just every element of yourself, your soul, right?’ Prince Harry said with a smile. ‘When you are not a parent you can get sucked into all sort of different stuff and you can maybe sometimes forget who you are.’
‘And suddenly as a parent, especially now, Archie is at the age he is at, asking all the questions,’ he revealed.
‘Why this? Why that? Why that? And instead of just trying to move it on, I give him the most honest answer I can,’ he said. ‘And then it goes on and on and on until he’s satisfied. And then that’s it. It’s done. Otherwise it ends up with – because the world is round and that it is the way life is.’
‘So it’s like, I love it. I love every part of it. I’ve always wanted to be a dad,’ he said. ‘I’ve always wanted to have my own kids and now I have got two little people who I’m responsible for.’
During Wednesday’s interview, he refused to say whether he missed his father Prince Charles, or brother Prince William, and instead insisted that he wanted to ‘focus’ on the Invictus Games, which he is currently hosting in the Netherlands. There have been rumors of an estrangement between the two siblings.
But Harry added that he always felt his late mother Princess Diana with him. She died in a Paris car crash in August 1997, when Harry was just 12 years-old.
Prince Harry, 37, opened up about his inquisitive toddler when he sat down to talk to NBC’s Hoda Kotb that aired Wednesday on the Today show
He revealed that his curious son Archie, 2, is in ‘why?’ phase where he will pepper him with questions until he’s satisfied with the answer
During the interview, he refused to say whether he missed his father Prince Charles, or brother Prince William, and instead insisted that he wanted to ‘focus’ on the Invictus Games
The Duke opened up about his late mother Princess Diana’s ‘constant presence’ in his life, saying that he has felt her ‘watching over’ him more in the past two years – since his sensational exit from the royal family – than ever before, adding that he feels as though his mother helped his brother William to get ‘set up’ with his own family and has now turned her attention to him.
‘For me [my mother’s presence] is constant,’ he said. ‘[It] has been over the last two years more so than ever before. And it is almost as though she’s done her bit with my brother and now she’s very much like helping me. She got him set up and now she’s helping me set up. That’s what it feels like. He’s got his kids, I’ve got my kids.
‘You know the circumstances are obviously different. But now, I feel her presence in almost everything that I do. But definitely more so in the last two years than ever before. Without question. She’s watching over us.’
He added that he is ‘sure’ his mother is proud of him.
The Duke also revealed that he talks about his late mother with his son Archie, adding that he refers to as ‘Grandma Diana’ during their conversations and that they have ‘a couple of photos’ of her in their Montecito home.
Meghan, pictured with Harry and their children, did not appear in the Today show interview; she had already left the Netherlands and returned to California to be with Archie and Lilibet
![Harry spoke about his late mother Princess Diana's 'constant presence' in his life, saying that he has felt it 'more so [in the last two years] than ever before' and adding that he believes she has helped him to 'get set up' with his new life in California](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/20/14/56831341-10735409-Harry_spoke_about_his_late_mother_Princess_Diana_s_constant_pres-a-3_1650462280708.jpg)
Harry spoke about his late mother Princess Diana’s ‘constant presence’ in his life, saying that he has felt it ‘more so [in the last two years] than ever before’ and adding that he believes she has helped him to ‘get set up’ with his new life in California
Despite departing from the royal family in 2020, a move that became widely known as ‘Megxit’, Harry says that his and Meghan’s ‘focus is very much the same’ as it was before they quit their roles as senior royals, insisting that the ‘life of service’ they now lead in California is what his wife ‘signed up for’ – hinting that their life in the UK was not.
He also spoke out about his mental health, telling Hoda that he ‘feels massively at peace… at times’ but that he still worries about experiencing ‘burnout’, saying that he ‘finds healing in helping others’, while adding that ‘his every day mantra’ is ‘trying to make the world a better place for his kids’.
‘There is just so much to be happy about in the outside world, but there is also so much to worry about,’ he said. ‘My sort of mantra now every day, and it is a dangerous one, because I need to make sure that I don’t have burnout, but is trying to make the world a better place for my kids.
‘Otherwise what is the point of point of bringing kids into this world? It is a responsibility I feel as a parent you probably feel as a parent as well. And we can’t fix everything. We know that. But what we can do is be there for each other.’
When asked what an average day in his life looks like, Harry said that it ‘revolves around his kids as much as possible’, however he admitted that he has struggled with working from home during the pandemic and trying to balance his work life and his role as a father.
‘[My everyday life] revolves around the kids as much as humanly possible,’ he said. ‘This whole working from home stuff is not all it’s cracked up to be, certainly post-COVID. Because it is really hard when your kids and you are in the same place. It is really hard to separate the work from them. Because they kind of overlap.
‘So I mean Archie spends more time interrupting our Zoom calls than anybody else. But he also gets us off them as well, so that’s also a nice thing.’
Kotb also quizzed Harry about whether Archie has inherited his ‘cheeky thing’, to which the Duke replied: ‘My cheeky thing? Yeah, I think so. I always try and keep that. The cheekiness is something that keeps you alive.’
Harry and Meghan made a secret visit to the Queen (seen together in 2018) last week during a quick stop-off in the UK on their way to the Netherlands
When asked whether he ‘misses’ his brother and father (seen left together in 2020), the Duke, 37, refused to answer, insisting he wanted to ‘focus’ on the Invictus Games, which he is hosting in the Netherlands. He also praised his grandmother’s ‘sense of humor’ and said she is able to speak to him ‘about things that she can’t talk about with anybody else’ (seen together right)
Speaking in his latest TV interview, Prince Harry also happily opened up about his bond with the Queen, praising her ‘sense of humor’ and saying that his grandmother is able to ‘talk about things [with him] that she can’t talk about with anybody else’.
However, when asked by Kotb, 57, whether he misses his brother and father, Harry swiftly dodged the question, insisting that he wanted to instead ‘focus’ on the Invictus Games, which he is currently hosting in the Netherlands, where the Today show interview took place.
Meghan did not appear in the Today show interview; she had already left the Netherlands and returned home to California in order to reunite with Archie and Lilibet, having confessed to a military veteran at the Invictus Games that she was missing her two children after being separated from them for the longest time since they were born.
Harry and Meghan chose not to attend Prince Philip’s memorial service last month amid the Duke of Sussex’s ongoing battle with the UK Home Office about his security protection
On Monday, the father-of-two broke his silence about the couple’s meeting with the Queen while speaking to the BBC, saying that it was ‘great to see her’ and adding that she ‘would have loved’ to have attended the Invictus Games alongside him.
There were reports Harry and Meghan had promised the Queen she would meet her great-grandchildren Archie and Lilibet ‘in the near future’ during the ‘very cordial’ secret meeting on Thursday.
However, despite insisting that he remains one of Her Majesty’s closest confidantes, Harry hinted that he will not attend the Queen’s upcoming Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June – pointing to his ongoing legal proceedings against the UK Home Office over ‘security issues’ as the reason why he may choose to skip the milestone event.
‘I don’t know yet,’ Harry said when asked if he will attend the event. ‘Lots of things… Security issues and everything else. This is what I’m trying to do: [I’m] trying to make it possible that I can get my kids to meet her.’
Source: DailyMail
