As he continues to promote his memoir Spare, the fastest-selling nonfiction book in history, Prince Harry held a virtual book event yesterday with Dr. Gabor Maté, a specialist in trauma, addiction, stress, and childhood development. Sitting across from each other in front of a fireplace, the two "discussed living with loss and the importance of personal healing," People reports. Harry brought up his relationship with his mother, Princess Diana, regarding his feelings of not fitting in with the rest of the royal family."

Harry told Mate during the 90-minute chat that he had "always felt different" from his family and knew his mother felt the same way.

"Certainly, throughout my life, throughout my younger years, I always felt a little different from the rest of my family," Harry said. 'I think my mother felt the same way. I didn't know what it meant at the time, but I felt like my body was inside and my head was outside. Whenever I tried to be myself, my true self, whether it was through the media or through my family or whatever, it was like, 'Don't be yourself, come back to who you're expected to be.' [Many families are complex and dysfunctional, but for me, when I was in therapy regularly, ...... I felt like I was learning a new language." Harry added that other members of his family "didn't speak that language": "This therapy works for me, it helps me get back to the origin of the trauma and unravel it all so I can be really happy. But at the same time I feel more and more distant from my loved ones and my family."

Harry also spoke of how writing "Spare" was a liberation for him, telling Mate. "I really hoped, and when I turned to the people who were helping me write this book, I hoped from the beginning, 'I want to make this an act of service.' Society doesn't help us. Society doesn't help us, and even more so in my family.'

Harry said, "I had an incredible childhood, and elements of it were incredibly painful."

"As a father, I have two children of my own. But as a father, I feel a huge responsibility in terms of making sure that I don't pass on any of the trauma and negativity that I went through." That's my job, that's what I put into my work, that's what I do, that's what I'm aware of every day in terms of my actions and my reactions to my two children. And sometimes I catch myself in moments when I should be enveloping my children in love. I wouldn't have been as aware of it if I hadn't been in therapy or working."