{"id":2377212,"date":"2026-04-17T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2377212"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:30:12","slug":"prince-harry-says-exact-moment-he-noticed-he-didnt-like-royal-life-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-harry-says-exact-moment-he-noticed-he-didnt-like-royal-life-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry says exact moment he noticed he didn’t ‘like’ royal life | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prince Harry<\/a> has revealed the exact moment he realised he didn\u2019t \u201clike\u201d royal life in Australia yesterday. The Duke of Sussex, who is currently on a four-day tour in Australia<\/a> with his wife Meghan Markle, stepped up to the stage to deliver a speech at a leadership summit in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Harry was just 12-years-old at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The duke revealed: \u201cAfter my mum died just before my 13th birthday \u2013 I was like: \u2018I don\u2019t want this job. I don\u2019t want this role \u2013 wherever this is headed, I don\u2019t like it.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt killed my mum and I was very much against it, and I stuck my head in the sand for years and years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He then said: “Eventually I realised \u2013 well, hang on, if there was somebody else in this position, how would they be making the most of this platform and this ability and the resources that come with it to make a difference in the world?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“And also, what would my mum want me to do? That really changed my own perspective.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The revelation was the first time in a while that Harry has addressed his mother\u2019s death, with Princess Diana having died in Paris in 1997.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The princess was involved in a car crash with her partner Dodi Fayed, and passed away in a hospital just hours later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Harry and his brother Prince William<\/a> were told the news by their father King Charles at Balmoral Castle the next morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry has revealed the exact moment he realised he didn\u2019t \u201clike\u201d royal life in Australia yesterday. The Duke of Sussex, who is currently on a four-day tour in Australia with his wife Meghan Markle, stepped up to the stage to deliver a speech at a leadership summit in Melbourne. Harry was just 12-years-old at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2377213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22730,462713,462712,462711,213824],"class_list":["post-2377212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-australia-tour","tag-prince-harry-diana-death","tag-prince-harry-princess-diana","tag-prince-harry-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Prince-Harry-says-exact-moment-he-noticed-he-didnt-like.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377214,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377212\/revisions\/2377214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}