Prince Harry describes how Charles made him suffer as a child

Prince Harry has made some of the most damaging accusations against his father, Prince Charles. Harry gives further insight into the royal family's stiff-upper-lip attitude in an episode of his new AppleTV+ series, “The Me You Can't See.”

Prince Harry chastised his father, Prince Charles, for making him “suffer” as a youngster, and disclosed that his family attempted to prevent Harry and Meghan Markle from leaving, even while his wife was suicidal.

“My father used to say to me when I was younger … ‘Well, it was like that for me, so it's going to be like that for you,'” the 36-year-old prince told Oprah Winfrey on their new Apple TV+ mental health show, “The Me You Can't See.”

“That doesn't make sense — just because you suffered, that doesn't mean that your kids have to suffer, in fact quite the opposite. If you suffered, do everything you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences that you had, you can make it right for your kids,” he added.

“Isn't this all about breaking the cycle?' he asked rhetorically. “Isn't this all about making sure that history doesn't repeat itself?”

‘The Me You Can't See,' a new documentary series on Apple TV+ on mental health, is now generating a lot of attention. Prince Harry, who moved to the United States with his wife Meghan and son Archie after leaving the Royal Family in the UK, disclosed a number of terrible secrets about the family, including how he was forced to suffer as a youngster by Prince Charles after Princess Diana's death.

However, the toxicity did not cease with childhood. As William and his wife Meghan Markle acknowledged in their notorious Oprah interview from March, the palace's failure to recognise (much alone treat) the couple's mental health difficulties was a big role in their departure from the monarchy last year.

“Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, ‘You can't do this.'” Harry explained, “And it's like, ‘Well, how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?' She was going to end her life. It shouldn't have to get to that.”

To everyone's surprise, Harry admitted that losing his mother drove him to drink. ‘I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs. I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel like I was feeling. But I slowly became aware, OK, I wasn't drinking Monday to Friday, but I would probably drink a week's worth in one day on a Friday or a Saturday night.' He said that he felt trapped by his family.

After being forced to see his mother's coffin pass him on The Mall, the Duke of Sussex said he is still disturbed by the sound of hooves. ‘I didn't want the life,' he declared at the age of 12.

Harry has compared the royal family to a cage, expressing his feelings of being “trapped.” He also chastised his family for attempting to persuade him to remain, despite his wife's suicidal feelings.

“That feeling of being trapped within the family, there was no option to leave,” he said.