Prince Harry Criticized For Recent Comments On Parenting: 'He Let Himself Down'

Prince Harry's latest comments about mental health and parenting in the internet era have garnered another round of criticism from a royal biographer.

Following their docuseries, the Duke of Sussex recently reunited with Oprah Winfrey for "The Me You Can't See: A Path Forward," a town hall conversation with experts and celebrity participants on "mental health, emotional well-being and where we go from here." In the bonus episode, Prince Harry once more highlighted the negative effects of social media on children and shared his thoughts on how parents are helping their kids deal with stresses caused by it.

"I get the real feeling that so many parents don’t feel equipped to be able to deal with these problems because so many people think there is ‘mental illness’ and then there is ‘everything else.’ And that ‘everything else’ is the day-to-day stresses or the anxieties of, whether it’s gaming, whether it’s social media, whether it’s isolation in front of the screen...all this kind of stuff," Prince Harry was quoted by the Daily Beast as saying.

"How can we collectively as a society prepare and make parents feel more comfortable and better equipped to be able to deal with the daily stresses or the daily unknowings of what your children are going through growing up in this world that we have allowed to be created, and which I believe is making us sicker," he continued.

However, royal expert Angela Levin, author of "Harry: Conversations With The Prince," slammed the duke for his comments, claiming, "You can't just say 'parents don't know.'"

"The other thing he said that is also ludicrous is that parents now don't know, now, how to bring their children up in these difficult times," Levin told Mike Graham on his talkRadio show Friday. "Well, I don't think many parents know exactly how to bring up their children, ever, and I think if you think about World War 2 and all of the things that happen every generation, you've just got to do the best you can."

Levin also suggested Prince Harry was not qualified to give advice and comment on how parents are raising their children as he has been a father for only two years.

"You can't just say 'parents don't know.' You don't know the personality is of your child, some of them are very sensitive, some of them are not," the royal author said.

"I think he let himself down, really. He's very confident. He now thinks he knows about this and he knows about parenting, well he's had a child for two years," she added.

Levin also previously refuted Prince Harry's claim on Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" that it was his wife, Meghan Markle, who convinced him to seek help for his mental health. Levin claimed Prince Harry told her in 2017 during an interview that it was his brother, Prince William, who suggested that he needed therapy.

"When I interviewed at length in Kensington Palace in 2017, I asked him if he was going because Meghan suggested it. I asked if she had persuaded him. He said, 'Absolutely not, she's had nothing to do with it, it was William,'" Levin explained.

"The Me You Can’t See: A Path Forward" premiered Friday for free on Apple TV+.