Harry faces ‘agonising’ absence

The Duke of Sussex is likely to find leaving his baby son so soon after his birth “agonising”, a leading parenting expert has said.

Harr y is due to travel to the Netherlands today to promote next year’s Invictus Games - three days after the safe delivery of Archie H a r r i s o n Mo u n t b a t t e n - Windsor.

Parenting exp er t Suzie Hayman said she thought the duke would feel a “pang” to b e leaving his wife, Meghan, and their child, and that he would probably be wanting to return “very quickly as soon as he can”.

The agony aunt and author said: “I would have thought the greatest stress would be to him.

“This is a very involved dad, who was present at the birth, and I think he’d find it actually agonising to leave his baby and his wife this early.”

The new father will visit The Hague to take par t in a pro - gramme of activities to mark the one year countdown to next year’s Invictus Games.

M s H a y m a n c o n t i n u e d : “I would have thought that f o r s o m e b o dy wh o i s t h a t i n v o l v e d , a n d v e r y m u c h clearly from the photos that we’ve seen adores his baby as well as his wife, he’d actually find it quite hard. The baby’s not going to suffer - mum may miss him. Babies don’t really notice much of what’s going on as long as they are cuddled, and fed, and kept warm and secure.”