The Duke of Sussex spoke emotionally about his unhappiness growing up in a Royal Family in which his future was mapped out before him, and declared that he wanted to ‘break the cycle’ of ‘genetic pain’ for his own children.
He suggested in 2021 that he had moved to the US with his wife Meghan to ensure that his own childhood experiences were not repeated. He said he realised in his 20s that he did not want the royal ‘job’, having seen what it did to his mother, Princess Diana, and wrote in his tawdry memoirs, Spare, about the struggle of having a predetermined role in life.
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