Prince Harry said life in the palace "killed his mother," Princess Diana.

Prince Harry said he didn't want to be a working member of the royal family because it was the job that "killed his mother," Princess Diana. He made the emotional confession during a business leaders' summit in Australia, where he is currently traveling with his wife, Meghan Markle.

"After my mother died shortly before my 13th birthday, I thought, 'I don't want this job. I don't want this role - wherever it leads, I don't like it. It killed my mother, and I was completely against it, and I buried my head in the sand for years,'" the prince said (quoted by the Daily Mail).

However, he eventually "realized" that this work also held the potential to "change the world for the better." "If it were someone else in this position, how would they use this platform, these opportunities, and the resources that come with it to make a difference? And also, what would my mom want from me? And that changed my perspective," Harry concluded.

Prince Harry, the youngest son of King Charles III and Princess Diana, remains fifth in the line of succession to the British throne, although he is no longer an active member of the royal family in an official capacity. This came after he and Markle moved to the United States amid his conflict with his father and older brother, Prince William.

Harry has spoken publicly about his resentment towards the royal family before, releasing a memoir aptly titled "The Spare," in which he described, among other things, how his father's family failed to protect his mother during her life and did not provide her with emotional support.

Princess Diana, known as the "Queen of Hearts," died in a car accident in 1997, and many still blame the royal family for her death. Critics of the royal family claim Diana faced strict protocol and a cold, distant family that ignored her problems (including postpartum depression and an eating disorder). When she went public with her problems, an "information war" unfolded against her, allegedly leading to a paparazzi chase on the night of the fatal accident.

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