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I have wondered about this as well. While I think there is less and less of a stigma now than 25 years ago, I don’t know about grief counseling for children in the UK. In the US there are grief counselors (free BTW) through Hospice for children and adults. In my county they have a summer weekend grief camp. I’ve had many grief counseling groups with children. I wish I could remember if this was prevalent 25 years ago, but I was working with college students then. Grief is such a personal thing - people don’t grieve the same way and children grieve very differently from adults.A look at the recent Harry interviews on GMB.
And I would just like to ask a question. Does it appear, from what we now know about how Diana’s death affected Harry (and his brother) who quite obviously were devastated, that any senior royal thought that these boys might need some therapy, some counselling, after this traumatic event? Apart from shoving Harry into a new school and that adjustment to be experienced of course. No thought of any consultation with any (child) psychologists on their behalf?
Charles had had therapy in the early years of his marriage so it wasn’t exactly an unknown quality for him, even if the Queen, Prince Philip, Princess Anne (of the stiff upper lip school) never thought of it at Balmoral when observing this 12 and 15 year old, or afterwards.
I’ve never read anything about the boys doing grief work - perhaps they did - it is very helpful for most.