California has become Prince Harry's '"spiritual home" where the anger of the past has gone, a journalist who once interviewed the duke has claimed.
Journalist, author and mental health advocate Bryony Gordon said that the Duke of Sussex now had a "sense of purpose" after his move to the US.
Bryony previously got Harry to open up about his mental health battle in the wake of Princess Diana's death in her podcast in 2017.
In an article for the Daily Telegraph she said that Harry, now living in a $14 million mansion in Montecito with his pregnant wife Meghan and son Archie, had found a "sense of purpose" after leaving the Firm last year.
She said: "The anger of the past has gone, and it has been replaced with a sense of purpose. California is not just Harry’s physical home for now – it is also his spiritual one, where nobody thinks anything of openly discussing their struggles.
"And the Prince Harry we can’t see is perhaps the one we don’t want to – the one who is getting on just fine, happily following his own path outside the conventions we are used to seeing him in. Hiking. Taking the dogs to the beach.
"Preparing for the imminent arrival of his daughter. Speaking his truth in the hope of helping those who are unable to, and not caring how cheesy anyone might think that sounds."
She added that the Duke "knows he has critics" and said: "He has accepted this, and it is this acceptance that has set him free, in many ways.
"He is no longer living in fear of the repercussions of existing as himself, as he wants and needs to be. He knows he has made mistakes – who among us hasn’t? – but he now sees that the most efficient way to live is truthfully, and not just by the expectations of others."
Bryony was speaking ahead of a new documentary series, The Me You Can't See, he has been working on with Oprah Winfrey and Apple TV+.
The five-part series will premier later this month and 'will put to bed any suggestions that the Duke of Sussex regrets the interview with Oprah that was aired in March', Bryony says.
It airs next Friday, May 21 on the streaming platform.
