He opened up to Stephen Colbert about growing up without his mom — and the whole country watching him.
, in which he recounts — in intimate detail — his personal experience as a member of the British royal family.Tuesday, the Duke of Sussex, 38, gave insight into why he thinks the global public is fascinated by his story.
“You know, Diana’s boys, let’s see how this turns out,” he told Colbert of the British public’s obsession with his and his older brother’s lives after their mother’s tragic death in 1997. “I think there was a real sense of, in some parts, ownership and, some parts, parenthood by the British public — feeling as though they had to parent myself and my brother through our teenage years.”in 2011, the public was reassured that the heir would be OK.
“I never thought we’d be away from it completely, but I did think that we would get some form of peace. That’s when I realized that, actually, our mere existence outside of that institutional control was more of a threat. And a similar thing happened to my mom, as well.”
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