ヘンリー英王子「私は異質な存在だった」　新インタビュー配信

【ロンドン（英国）ＡＦＰ＝時事】英国のヘンリー王子は４日に生配信された、トラウマ専門のガボール・マテ医師とのインタビューで、自身が長年、英王室の他のメンバーとは「少し異質」だと感じていたと明らかにした。複数のメディアが報じた。（写真は、ヘンリー英王子の自伝「スペア」。資料写真）
　その中でヘンリー王子は自身について「崩壊家庭」の出身だとし、子どもたちには自らのトラウマや負の経験を伝えないよう強い責任を感じていると話した。
　王子は１月に発売され物議を醸している自伝「スペア」で、青年期にドラッグやアルコールまみれの生活を送っていたことや、父チャールズ国王や兄ウィリアム皇太子との関係が破綻した様を詳細に記している。
　「私は人生を通じて、若い時から、家族とは少し違っていると感じていた」と、王子はマテ氏に語った。母親のダイアナ元妃も同じ様な感覚に陥っていたとしている。
　妻メーガン妃については、「この世界から抜け出せなかった私を、別の世界から来た彼女が救い出してくれた」とし、「特別な人」だと述べた。
　トラウマや依存症などに関する複数の著作があるマテ氏はインタビュー中に、王子はＡＤＤ（注意欠陥障害）だと診断。王室時代に「多くのトラウマと苦しみ」を経験したと指摘した。
　ヘンリー王子夫妻は王室を離脱し、現在は米国に居住している。５月初めに行われるチャールズ国王の戴冠式に出席するかは不明。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/03/06-15:21）

Prince Harry reportedly revealed he has long felt slightly different to the rest of Britain's royal family in an interview on Saturday with a trauma expert.
In a wide-ranging discussion with Dr Gabor Mate, Harry, 38, described himself as coming from a broken home and said he was trying not to pass trauma onto his children, according to reports of the live-streamed conversation.
The interview follows the January publication of the prince's controversial memoir, Spare, in which he admitted his adolescence was marked by drugs and alcohol and detailed the breakdown in his relationships with father King Charles III, and brother William.
I certainly have felt throughout my life, my younger years, I felt slightly different to the rest of my family, Harry told Mate, according to numerous media reports on the interview.
I felt strange being in this container, and I know that my mum felt the same so it makes sense to me, he added, referring to his late mother Princess Diana.
Harry went on to credit his wife Meghan Markle for having saved him.
I was stuck in this world, and she was from a different world and helped draw me out of that, he said, describing her as an exceptional human being.
During the conversation, Mate -- the author of several books on trauma, addiction and illness -- publicly diagnosed Harry with attention deficit disorder (ADD).
Summarising the prince's life, which has included losing his mother at the age of 12 and later serving with Britain's armed forces in Afghanistan, Mate said there was a lot of trauma and suffering.
California-based Harry, who quit the UK and royal life with Meghan in 2020 amid a rift with the monarchy, opened up about his parenting style towards their two children, three-year-old Archie and one-year-old Lilibet.
I feel a huge responsibility not to pass on any trauma or negative experiences that I've had as a kid or as a man growing up, he said.
There are times when I catch myself when I should be smothering them with that love but I might not be.
He added that together with Meghan they were trying to learn from our own past and overlapping those mistakes, perhaps, and growing to break that cycle.
In his memoir, Harry acknowledges using cannabis regularly earlier in life, and cocaine on several occasions when he was a teenager, saying he was willing to try almost anything that would alter the pre-established order.
He reiterated to Mate that cocaine didn't do anything for me but said marijuana was different.
That actually really did help me, he said, according to Britain's Press Association.
The publication of Spare -- in which Harry claims elder brother William attacked him during an argument about Meghan -- is said to have significantly worsened relations between the self-exiled couple and other senior royals.
It remains unclear whether they will attend Charles' landmark coronation in early May.