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Whether you consider World Mental Health Day an important and necessary means of drawing attention to often overlooked issues, or a gimmicky fad that somehow manages to overlook the other 364 days a year that such\u00a0matters\u00a0are equally important, there is no doubt that the royal family have been doing their bit to raise awareness. <\/p>\n
Never mind that it is most likely that the late queen\u2019s\u00a0solution\u00a0to any mental health issues was to put on the Marigolds and engage in a spot of light cleaning (later, of course, to be done at greater length by a flunkey). The modern-day Firm is all about the caring and sharing, and\u00a0they are taking great care to make sure that their subjects know that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fresh from seeing his Africa Parks charity spiral into chaos and controversy, Prince Harry shrugged off\u00a0his\u00a0latest reputation-shredding upset to return to his happy place, namely being publicly venerated. He and Meghan headed to New York last night to be named \u2018Humanitarians of the Year\u2019 at the Project Healthy Minds Gala. The duke, who was described on the company\u2019s website as\u00a0a\u00a0\u2018humanitarian, mental health advocate, environmentalist and military combat veteran\u2019 \u2013 to borrow the old joke, isn\u2019t that four people? \u2013 made a typically barnstorming speech in which he attacked social media and\u00a0\u2018algorithms designed to maximise data collection at any cost\u2019, denouncing the big corporations for causing what he called \u2018an epidemic of distraction\u2019. That he and his wife have profited from these corporations to the tune of millions of dollars \u2013 and that Netflix, one of the key drivers of such algorithms, sends the unwary to\u00a0Harry and Meghan\u00a0<\/em>went unmentioned.\u00a0<\/p>\n Concidentally, or otherwise, Harry\u2019s big speech was delivered only a few hours after his estranged sister-in-law published a similar essay calling for a return to smaller, more intimate lives away from the embrace of Big Tech. The Princess of Wales wrote that people had become\u00a0\u2018more isolated,\u00a0more lonely, and less equipped to form the warm, meaningful relationships\u2019\u00a0as a result of\u00a0the march of technology, and that families should come together once again. In words that some might find saccharine and others affecting, she suggested that it was time to\u00a0\u2018look the people you care about in the eye and be fully there \u2013 because that is where love begins\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n Few would argue that increasingly isolated existences are hardly conducive to\u00a0familial\u00a0stability or mental health. Yet it was the Prince of Wales who demonstrated how important kindness and personal connection can be when he spoke to Rhian Mannings,\u00a0a mental health advocate\u00a0who suffered the dual trauma of losing one of her children to illness and then her husband to suicide within a week. As Mannings candidly discussed the death of her\u00a0spouse\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u2018I think that\u2019s what the hardest thing is, we would have been OK\u2019\u00a0\u2013 William is shown obviously and deeply affected in a film released to coincide with\u00a0World Mental Health Day, fighting back tears and saying\u00a0\u2018I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s just hard to ask the questions\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n There will be diehard supporters of Harry who claim that his speech was the most important statement made by any member of the royal family, just as partisans of Wills \u2018n\u2019 Kate will argue that their subtler, less bombastic utterances are of far more lasting value. Neither side is likely to believe that the juxtapositions of their\u00a0very public interventions is coincidental, nor that the very different approach of the bully pulpit of the Duke of Sussex (lest we forget,\u00a0Humanitarian of the Year) and the more low-key intercession of the Prince and Princess of Wales were not carefully considered long in advance.\u00a0<\/p>\n It is\u00a0hard not to feel that the animosity between the two branches of the younger royals is now spilling over into very public forums. Their\u00a0undoubted good intentions are surely undermined by the sense of rivalry \u2013 and one-upmanship \u2013 that lurks beneath the worthy surface.\u00a0That, in itself, is\u00a0something worth considering on this day, of all days.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.spectator.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether you consider World Mental Health Day an important and necessary means of drawing attention to often overlooked issues, or a gimmicky fad that somehow manages to overlook the other 364 days a year that such\u00a0matters\u00a0are equally important, there is no doubt that the royal family have been doing their bit to raise awareness. 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