Princess of Belgium Weighs in On “Terrible” Feud Between Prince Harry and Royal Family

Princess Delphine is stepping up for Prince Harry. 

Amid the Duke of Sussex’s ongoing fight for security clearance in the United Kingdom—five years after he and wife Meghan Markle left the royal family—the Belgium princess expressed her empathy. 

“I understand the guy, he’s just traumatized,” Princess Delphine explained on the It’s Reigning Men podcast July 15. “He’s doing these things and everyone is bullying him, but not thinking about his trauma and I just find it terrible because I feel like he’s been kind of left.”

Indeed, the 57-year-old—who was born out of an extramarital affair of King Albert II and spent years fighting for royal recognition until it was granted in 2020—posited that Harry, dad to Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, is still suffering from the 1997 death of his and Prince William’s mother Princess Diana. 

“She had these children and the death was just horrible,” Delphine continued. “Especially seeing these two children, left by a really natural, nice, normal motherly woman. So they lost such an important figure and I feel very sorry for Harry because I think that was traumatic for him.”