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LONDON \u2014 Prince William<\/a> has fought back tears during an emotional conversation with a woman who lost her husband to suicide, in a video released by Kensington Palace Friday. <\/p>\n William, 43, was speaking to campaigner Rhian Mannings at her home in south Wales. Mannings lost her one-year-old son, George suddenly in 2012 to an undiagnosed illness. Five days later, her husband Paul died by suicide. Mannings said Paul blamed himself for their son’s death. <\/p>\n Mannings has since used her experience to launch a charity aimed at supporting parents who suffer the loss of a child or young adult. <\/p>\n The video<\/a> was released on World Mental Health Day to highlight suicide prevention efforts. The Prince and Princess of Wales\u2019 Royal Foundation is launching a new National Suicide Prevention Network, aiming to bring charities together to transform suicide prevention in the U.K. Manning\u2019s charity 2Wish<\/a> will be part of the network. According to statistics cited in the video, someone in the U.K. dies by suicide every 90 minutes. <\/p>\n \u201cI will forever go over those last few days with him wondering what I missed,” Mannings says about her Paul’s suicide. “We were just so happy and I think this just shows it really can happen to anyone.\u201d <\/p>\n William, the heir to the throne, asked Mannings what she would say to her late husband if she could. <\/p>\n \u201cI would just like to sit him down like this and just say, \u2018Why didn\u2019t you come to me?\u2019 Because he\u2019s missed out on just so much joy, and we would have been OK. And I think that\u2019s what the hardest thing is, we would have been OK,\u201d Mannings tells William, who then becomes visibly emotional. <\/p>\n “Are you OK?” Mannings asks the prince, who takes time to gather himself before continuing. “It’s hard to ask these questions,” William says. <\/p>\n \u201cThe best way to prevent suicide is to talk about it. Talk about it early, talk about it with your loved ones, those you trust, your friends,\u201d William says. <\/p>\n William’s willingness to show openness and vulnerability in public is a marked departure from previous generations of royals, for whom public shows of emotion were rare. In a recent interview<\/a> with Canadian actor and comedian Eugene Levy, William said that 2024 as the hardest he’s ever had, as he coped with both his wife, Catherine and his father, King Charles going through battles with cancer. <\/p>\n William has also dealt with a breakdown in his relationship with his brother, Prince Harry since the younger royal stepped back from duties in 2020. <\/p>\n