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Prince Harry joins on new role at mental health charity BetterUp as chief impact officer

Prince Harry has join a new job at mental health charity BetterUp.

The Duke of Sussex will become chief impact officer at the coaching and mental health group, the association has affirmed.

As a component of his new job, Prince Harry will advocate publicly on topics related with mental health and will likewise be involved in initiatives including product strategy decisions and charitable contributions.

The 36-year-old illustrious has spoken on various events on his battle to grapple with the demise of his mom Diana, Princess of Wales, in a fender bender in 1997 when he was 12 and once conceded that he nearly endured a “complete breakdown” as he grew up decided not to consider the loss.

Harry – whose father is heir to the British seat Prince Charles – said: “I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well.

“I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and sort of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle.”

The prince – who stepped down as a senior individual from the British Royal Family to migrate to the United States with his significant other Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, a year ago – claims that he would not open about his distress from the start as it wouldn’t bring Princess Diana back, however concedes following two years of “total chaos” he started talking and felt better for doing as such.

He said: “My way of dealing with it was sticking my head in the sand, refusing to ever think about my mum, because why would that help? [I thought] it’s only going to make you sad, it’s not going to bring her back.

“So from an emotional side, I was like ‘right, don’t ever let your emotions be part of anything’. So I was a typical 20, 25, 28-year-old running around going ‘life is great’, or ‘life is fine’ and that was exactly it.

“And then [I] started to have a few conversations and actually all of a sudden, all of this grief that I have never processed started to come to the forefront and I was like, there is actually a lot of stuff here that I need to deal with.”

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