Prince Harry says he loves the ‘chaos and learning’ of fatherhood and revealed his two year-old son Archie loves peppering him with ‘why’ questions.
The Duke of Sussex, 37, opened up about his inquisitive toddler when he sat down to talk to NBC’s Hoda Kotb that aired Wednesday on the Today show.
‘What do I love about fatherhood? All of it. The chaos, the learning, the reminder of just every element of yourself, your soul, right?’ Prince Harry said with a smile. ‘When you are not a parent you can get sucked into all sort of different stuff and you can maybe sometimes forget who you are.’
‘And suddenly as a parent, especially now, Archie is at the age he is at, asking all the questions,’ he revealed.
‘Why this? Why that? Why that? And instead of just trying to move it on, I give him the most honest answer I can,’ he said. ‘And then it goes on and on and on until he’s satisfied. And then that’s it. It’s done. Otherwise it ends up with – because the world is round and that it is the way life is.’
‘So it’s like, I love it. I love every part of it. I’ve always wanted to be a dad,’ he said. ‘I’ve always wanted to have my own kids and now I have got two little people who I’m responsible for.’
During Wednesday’s interview, he refused to say whether he missed his father Prince Charles, or brother Prince William, and instead insisted that he wanted to ‘focus’ on the Invictus Games, which he is currently hosting in the Netherlands. There have been rumors of an estrangement between the two siblings.
But Harry added that he always felt his late mother Princess Diana with him. She died in a Paris car crash in August 1997, when Harry was just 12 years-old.
The Duke opened up about his late mother Princess Diana’s ‘constant presence’ in his life, saying that he has felt her ‘watching over’ him more in the past two years – since his sensational exit from the royal family – than ever before, adding that he feels as though his mother helped his brother William to get ‘set up’ with his own family and has now turned her attention to him.
‘For me [my mother’s presence] is constant,’ he said. ‘[It] has been over the last two years more so than ever before. And it is almost as though she’s done her bit with my brother and now she’s very much like helping me. She got him set up and now she’s helping me set up. That’s what it feels like. He’s got his kids, I’ve got my kids.
‘You know the circumstances are obviously different. But now, I feel her presence in almost everything that I do. But definitely more so in the last two years than ever before. Without question. She’s watching over us.’
He added that he is ‘sure’ his mother is proud of him.
The Duke also revealed that he talks about his late mother with his son Archie, adding that he refers to as ‘Grandma Diana’ during their conversations and that they have ‘a couple of photos’ of her in their Montecito home.
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