ヘンリー王子、米移住は「家族の痛みと苦しみの連鎖断ち切るため」

【ロサンゼルスＡＦＰ＝時事】ヘンリー英王子は、１３日に公開されたインタビューで、父のチャールズ皇太子が「自分がされたように私に接した」ことに気付き、家族の痛みと苦しみの連鎖を断ち切るために、妻と息子と一緒に米カリフォルニア州に移住したと語った。（写真はヘンリー英王子＜右＞とメーガン妃）
　ヘンリー王子は、ポッドキャスト番組「アームチェア・エキスパート」のホストで俳優のダックス・シェパード氏に、父を責めるつもりはないが、わが子には同じ過ちを犯すまいと心に決めたと話した。
　「子育てに関して言えば、父または両親が受けたであろう痛みと苦しみのために、私が何らかの形で痛みや苦しみを感じていたならば、その連鎖を断ち切りたい」と王子は述べた。「私たちは親としてできる限りのことをし、『私に起きたことが、君には起こらないようする』と言うべきだ」
　ヘンリー王子は父の生い立ちについて考え始めてから、王族として育てられるのは決して楽ではなかったことに気付いたという。
　「つまり、父は自分がされたように私に接した。『わが子のためにどうやってそれを変えられるか』ということだ。そして、私は今ここにいる」と王子はシェパード氏に語り、「家族全員で米国に移住した」と述べた。
　３月に米トーク番組司会者オプラ・ウィンフリー氏のインタビューに応じたヘンリー王子は、動画配信サービス「Ａｐｐｌｅ　ＴＶ＋」で５月２１日に配信が始まるメンタルヘルス・ドキュメンタリーシリーズ「Ｔｈｅ　Ｍｅ　Ｙｏｕ　Ｃａｎ＇ｔ　Ｓｅｅ」で再びウィンフリー氏と共演する。
　同シリーズのプロモーションを行ったヘンリー王子は、２０代前半に王室の公務を望んでいないことに気が付いたとシェパード氏に語った。
　「どうしようもない無力感にさいなまれた大きな出来事が三つある。一つ目は子どもの頃に母と一緒に車の後部座席に乗っていて、パパラッチに追われていた時、二つ目はアフガニスタンで（攻撃ヘリコプターの）アパッチに乗っていた時。そして三つ目は妻と一緒にいた時だ」と述べた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/05/14-20:41）

Prince Harry moved his wife and son to California to break a family cycle of pain and suffering after realizing his father Prince Charles treated me the way he was treated, he said in an interview released Thursday.
The remarks comes in the wake of Harry and Meghan's explosive television interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which they raised allegations of racism in the royal family, and said Charles had cut them off financially.
Harry told Armchair Expert podcast host Dax Shephard that while he did not blame his father, he had resolved to avoid making the same mistakes with his own children.
When it comes to parenting, if I've experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering that perhaps my father or my parents had suffered, I'm going to make sure that I break that cycle, said Harry.
There's a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway. And as parents we should be doing the most we can to try and say, You know what? That happened to me, I'm going to make sure that doesn't happen to you, he added.
Harry said that once he began thinking about his father's own upbringing, he came to realize that the Prince of Wales had not had it easy, being brought up as a royal.
So that means that he's treated me the way that he was treated. Which means, 'how can I change that for my own kids?' And well, here I am, the prince told Shephard.
I've now moved my whole family to the US.
The allegations made in Harry and Meghan's earlier interview with Winfrey in March have plunged the monarchy into its biggest crisis since the death of William and Harry's mother, Princess Diana, in 1997.
Harry and Winfrey will collaborate again for mental health documentary series The Me You Can't See premiering May 21 on Apple TV+.
Promoting that forthcoming series, Harry told Shepherd he had realized that he did not want his royal duties in his early 20s, in part because of what it did to my mom.
The three major times I felt completely helpless -- one when I was a kid in the back of the car with my mom being chased by paparazzi, two was in Afghanistan in an Apache helicopter, and then the third one was with my wife, he said.
Harry and Meghan now live in Montecito, around an hour north of Los Angeles, and are expecting a daughter.