‘Traumatized’ Prince Harry is ‘bullied’ by the public, Belgium’s Princess Delphine says

Princess Delphine of Belgium has thrown her support behind Prince Harry, saying he is being “bullied” by the general public who choose to ignore his “trauma.”
The Belgian royal, who is the love child of former Belgian King Albert II and Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, said she feels “very sorry” for the Duke of Sussex following his swift royal exit.
“Lady Diana was a part of my life when I was in England,” the princess, who had previously lived in London but now resides in Brussels, Belgium, said on the “It’s Reigning Men” podcast last week.
“She was just sunshine, in the news especially,” Delphine told host Daniel Rosney, adding that she began keeping up with Harry’s life because of her admiration for his late mother Princess Diana, who died in 1997.
The 57-year-old said the beloved royal’s death was difficult for the “Spare” author, 40, to process — adding that she considers speculation over his new life in the US as “bullying.”
“I feel very sorry for Harry, because I think that was traumatic for him,” she said. “I think Harry has suffered so much. He was traumatized, and it’s coming out now.”
Delphine, who was the result of the former monarch’s 18-year affair with the Belgian baroness, said she “understands” Harry and the hardships he’s faced in recent years.
“He’s just traumatized, and so he’s doing these things and everyone is just bullying him but not thinking about his trauma, and I just find it terrible,” she added.
Delphine, for her part, has been kept at arm’s length by her father from the Belgian royal family in a desperate bid to preserve his marriage to Queen Paola, 87.
After Delphine was born in 1968, Albert had initially kept loosely in touch with his love child and her mother, but this drastically changed once she turned 16.
In 2013 — the same year Albert had abdicated the throne — Delphine launched a legal bid to be officially recognized as Albert’s daughter.
The bid was successful, and in October 2020 the Brussels Court of Appeal ruled that she was entitled to the same royal titles and privileges as her father’s three other children.
Following the ruling, Delphine Boël had officially rebranded to “Delphine of Saxen-Coburg-Gotha, princess of Belgium.”
“The legal victory will never replace the love of a father but it provides a feeling of justice,” she said at the time.
The artist had claimed Albert was her real dad for two decades before turning to the courts over his paternity.
The ex-monarch rejected Delphine as his daughter until January 2020 — when he agreed to take a court-ordered DNA test, under threat of a $5,500 fine for each day he refused.
Delphine had long maintained that her aristocratic mother had an affair with Albert between 1966 and 1984.
Rumors of the paternity scandal had first emerged in an unauthorized 1999 biography about Albert’s wife, Queen Paola.