The source said: “Harry is still heartbroken he and William were made to walk behind Diana’s coffin as kids, and by Charles’ buttoned-up emotionless state in the wake of her death left him and his brother scarred for life.
“It’s not the kind of behavior he ever wants his kids to experience.”
Harry, 40, is also intent on ensuring he is “the best dad he can be” so Meghan does not fall victim to the baby blues that tormented his mum – who was killed aged 36 in a 1997 car smash in Paris with her lover Dodi Fayed.
Diana said her depression hit when she had her first son William, 42, less than a year after joining ‘The Firm’ – just like Meghan.
She shocked the world when she told six years before her death of being afflicted with depression.
Diana told journalist Martin Bashir in her famous 1995 BBC1 Panorama interview with the broadcaster she was hit with post-partum depression after her first son William was born.
She said: “I was unwell with post-natal depression, which no one ever discusses, post-natal depression, you have to read about it afterwards, and that in itself was a bit of a difficult time.
“You’d wake up in the morning feeling you didn’t want to get out of bed, you felt misunderstood, and just very, very low in yourself.
“In the space of a year my whole life had changed, turned upside down, and it had its wonderful moments, but it also had challenging moments. And I could see where the rough edges needed to be smoothed.”
