Prince Harry appeared in a new video with Serena Williams and her husband, Alexi Robichaux. The Duke of Sussex said his routine is key to his “mental fitness” in a discussion with the two celebrities. The royal, who was sporting a short haircut in the video call, told the pair he fits in some exercise when his son Archie is at school and daughter Lilibet is having a nap.
He also encouraged people to step “outside their bubble” during the chat.
The video was part of a wider event, hosted by Alexi’s organisation Better Up.
Discussing his mental health routine, Harry said: “I know that I need to meditate every single day.
“Once you have to show up for other people, the self-care is the first thing to drop away.”
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He acknowledged that the road can be “really bumpy”.
He said he throws himself into a workout, a dog walk or meditation when he is free of the children.
Judi James, a professional speech analyst, spoke exclusively to Express.co.uk about Harry’s speech in the new video and what this revealed about the Prince.
Judi claimed: “This is essentially a pitch for Better Up and Harry delivers his messages in a very US style like a passionate and seasoned pitch pro.
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“His actual points about lifestyle changes are basic in this clip: meditate, visualise, create some ‘Me time’ and surrounding yourself with people that can help.
“His style of delivery involves overkill hand gestures, illustrative gestures and emphatic rituals to register determination and importance.
“Gesticulating in this way makes basic advice sound profound and inspirational, as does his use of words like ‘Superpower’ ‘Shift in global awareness’ and ‘Lessons from the Universe’.
“His verbal traits, along with his spinning, waving hands, present in a US delivery style.
“For example, he ends sentences with ‘right?’, as in ‘Life is about learning, right?’ and ‘guys’ plus the mock ‘just saying’ pose when he raises both hands palm-out to the screen and shrugs as he uses the self-deprecating term, ‘just an observation’.
“If his points are basic but well made in the style of a self-help guru, they are also deliciously vague enough to make you want to hear more,” the expert noted.
Judi continued: “Harry’s phrase ‘Every single bad thing can be good’ sounds exciting.
“Moreover, ‘surrounding yourself with people who will wash your mental windscreen’ could be inspirational if you could find out more.
“His saying, ‘Visualise negatives and turn them into positives’ sounds like some sort of key to happiness.
“Plus, ‘gaining control of situations’ by starting to ‘understand how you react to certain people’ sounds very much like a message William, Charles and the Queen might have benefited from in the days following Harry’s Oprah interview.
“Harry uses his own experiences to create the kind of empathy that adds to the power of his pitch.
“By the time he gets to his more specific details, like how Better Up coaches increased performance at work ‘ten fold in places’ and how ‘Everyone in the world’ should have access to a Better Up coach the only question seems to be, does this help cost and if so, how much?”
