Opinion: Harry Selling His Memories of Diana Feels Wrong

Hannah McKay / REUTERS Prince Harry has a new product on the market, and it’s his grief for Diana.

That is my verdict after sitting through “Redefining Grief: Building Resilience Through Loss,” his pay-to-view 90-minute MasterClass show that went live on Thursday, in which Harry appears alongside the neuroscientist Dr.

Mary-Frances O’Connor.

We don’t know how much Harry was paid, but his spokesman confirmed he was.

But previous MasterClass contributors have received at least six figures, sometimes seven.

The weird vibe starts with the casting.

On the one hand, we have O’Connor, a professor of clinical psychology and psychiatry at the University of Arizona, a bona fide expert who has put grieving people through MRI scans and written books (”The Grieving Brain, The Grieving Body”) about what she found.

A lot of her research and insights are fascinating: how adrenaline works in the body during grief, how it changes the architecture of your mind, how it is so difficult when a person really close to you dies because part of your brain can’t quite accept them not being there.

She is careful and fascinating.

But every time Harry comes on, the intelligence quotient drops in favor of emotion.

A lot of it is perfectly good advice, the kind you would get from reading a book or attending a support group, but he makes it clear, repeatedly, that he is just repeating what he has picked up in therapy.

Take his meditation on “gears.” Harry starts going on about how you need to find your right gear: His therapist, he says, told him he can’t be stuck in one gear the whole time and needs to find different ones.

Then a diagram comes up: gears 1 to 5 = pacing.

It’s the worst kind of half-baked cod analysis: someone who’s been through therapy and thinks they are then entitled to hand advice.