“He needed to go much slower but I totally understand why the impetuous lad, the rival sibling, the bruised man wanted to smack it out there really quickly, get some easy hits, except they’ve proved quite hard hits but lucrative ones that’s for sure under his belt. And I don’t think he would have ever envisaged the difficulty…”
With it now being more than three years since the couple announced that they would not return to their royal roles and moved to the Duchess’s Los Angeles with Prince Archie, Dr Dunlop believes the Duke is now realising the reality of what it means to be outside of the Firm.
She continued: “We have to own when you’re part of the Royal Family, the building bricks that come with the institution mean you are greater than the sum of your parts which means that by definition, Harry outside royalty is less than the sum of his parts had he stayed in the institution.
“I think that’s something very painful. It’s a reality that will be hitting home for him now and I’ve always felt compassion for Harry and I continue to feel compassion because he was born into something. When you’re born into something, you take it for granted.”
