Harry reveals life-long depression after Diana's death in Grief MasterClass

The Duke of Sussex has revealed he "slipped into depression for about two weeks" after moving to Canada in 2019, before of the eventual relocation of his family to the US.

Prince Harry, who has always been candid about his mental health struggles after the 1997 death of his mother, Princess Diana, shared further details this week with a neuroscientist in a session for a video learning platform.

MasterClass approached Harry about appearing in the paid program last year.

Mary-Frances O'Connor, a neuroscientist and University of Arizona professor, joined Harry in the session.

Prince Harry was 12 and his brother, Prince William, was 15 when Diana died in 1997, and they famously walked behind her coffin during her funeral procession.

Prince Harry's mental health after Diana's death

Harry also said in the video: 

"Being in Canada, away from the stressful environment where presumably my body was just pumped full of adrenaline, within two or three days, I experienced this adrenaline crash, something that I'd never experienced before.

"It was as if I needed stress in order to get the adrenaline to make my brain function because I became useless around the house.

"I actually slipped into depression for about two weeks and I felt like I couldn't function without adrenaline."

Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, unexpectedly last month returned to the UK with their children Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, after spending six years in the US. 

In the video, the duke continued, "In my 20s, I went to war twice thinking I could outrun my feelings. But that's not what happened.

"I'd spent so long emotionally numb, to a large extent, because I felt disloyal and guilty for the possibility of being happy and joyful without her.

“I felt like I had to be sad and I had to be emotionally numb in order to prove to her that I missed her.”