Prince Harry: royal misfit yearning for escape

Harry recently revealed that for a long time he struggled to cope with his mother's death in a Paris car crash in 1997. Photos: AFP

Scarred by the death of his mother, Prince Harry struggled in the royal limelight for much of his life, and his fears for wife Meghan Markle proved to be the final straw.

The younger son of the heir to the throne Prince Charles and the late Diana, princess of Wales, Harry, now 35, earned a reputation as a playboy in his youth, seemingly desperate to escape the royal straightjacket.