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By Sean CoughlanRoyal correspondent

Prince Harry has said he showers his children with affection to avoid passing on any " traumas" or " Negative experiences" from his own upbringing.

Speaking about grief, He Said his wife Meghan had " saved his life" - and that he feared losing his memories of His Mother , Diana, In Therapy .

But The Duke of Sussex said he was not a " victim" or seeking sympathy.

He spoke in an online interview with Dr Gabor Maté, an author on trauma and addiction.

The fireside discussion in California was a follow-up to the bombshell memoir, Spare. Prince Harry revealed that his own reaction to The Book 's publication was to feel " incredibly free".

" I felt a huge weight off my shoulders, " he told Dr Maté, describing The Book as an " act of service" to help others break the taboo about speaking about Mental Health problems.

It was a discussion about his emotional feelings, therapy and thoughts on Mental Health - But did not go into recent royal revelations, such as whether or whether he would attend his father's coronation.

There were no mentions of how the Royal Family , including his brother, had felt about the tell-all memoir.

Prince Harry described Growing Up " feeling different" within His Family - and had a sense of living in a disconnected " bubble" which therapy had helped him burst.

In front of an international online audience, he was asked about whether he had experienced an emotionally distant childhood, with a lack of hugs and demonstrations of affection.

He Said that with his own children, he was " making sure that I smother them With Love and affection".

" As a father I feel a huge responsibility to ensure that I don't pass on any traumas or. . Negative experiences that I've had as A Kid , " He Said .

Harry: My Mother just wanted me to be happy

He spoke repeatedly about the importance of therapy, even though it could drive a wedge between him and other relations.

But He Said that he wrongly feared that it would erode his feelings about His Mother , Diana, who died when he was aged 12.

" One of the things I was most scared about was losing The Feeling that I had of my Mum . . Whatever I had managed to hold onto of My Mother , " said Prince Harry .

But he hadn't lost those feelings and had come to realise " that actually she just wanted me to be happy" he told Dr Maté.

The Prince spoke about being " eternally grateful" for his wife Meghan in changing his perspective, calling her an " exceptional human being".

" I was stuck in this world, and she was from a Different World and helped draw me out of that, " said Prince Harry .

But He Said meeting Meghan had given him a " crash course" in The Experience of racism, which he described as " pretty shocking".

The trauma expert also raised the issue of Prince Harry 's military service in Afghanistan, a Western intervention that Dr Gabor said he himself had not supported.

In response, Prince Harry said that many people in the UK " assumed that everybody that was serving was for the war".

But He Said : " Once you sign up and you do what you're told to do, So There was a lot of us that didn't necessarily agree or disagree, But you were doing what you were trained to do. You're doing what you were sent to do. "

To watch the online interview, The Audience had to buy a copy of Prince Harry 's best-selling memoir, which had made headlines with its unprecedented account of tensions between The Royals and personal revelations.

It included claims of a physical altercation with his brother Prince William, and recorded his experiences of Taking Drugs and losing his virginity.

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Source of news: bbc.com