00:00Harry, you have been patron of Well Child now for about 19 years, since long before you became a dad
00:05yourself.
00:06How has fatherhood changed the way that you react to meeting these families?
00:11Wasn't there a video how many years ago now?
00:14There were a few tears, weren't there?
00:15It wasn't tears, it was that horrible moment when your voice cracks or breaks, that kind of thing.
00:23So yes, in all honesty and in simple terms, I think once you become a parent, it does change everything.
00:30It's not the fact that for all the years that I wasn't a parent that meeting the kids didn't matter
00:35as much.
00:36But you suddenly realize how grateful you are to have kids that aren't sick.
00:43And again, day in, day out, coming off the back of kids have been out for 11 weeks.
00:51But you find yourself going, wow, in that room with those parents, you really can't complain about anything.
00:57Of course, it's all relative, but the inspiration that I get from these guys, not just the kids, but the
01:04parents themselves, it fills me up for a whole year.
01:09And do you talk to Archie and Lilibet about the kids that you meet here?
01:14How are you sort of passing on that empathy and compassion that you've shown over all these years?
01:18Yeah, so breakfast this morning, they had a bit of Monday blues.
01:24It was always Sunday night blues when you're being sent away to boarding school, I think I was.
01:29But for them, at breakfast this morning, I decided, you know what, you're just being a little bit tricky.
01:35So I'm going to tell you exactly what I'm doing tonight.
01:37And they were genuinely fascinated and interested and had all sorts of questions.
01:41So, look, like with all of my work and their mum's work as well, whatever we can do to try
01:48to instill some of that awareness, I think, is absolutely crucial for all kids.
01:53And now, you told us last week that you're settling in well to the UK.
01:57What's the most British thing you've done with the family since you've been back?
02:02Gone for a walk.
02:03Lots of walks.
02:04Isn't that the most British thing?
02:05Well, that's the British thing.
02:07I already tried beans on toast.
02:09How did that go?
02:10That was in California.
02:11That was years ago.
02:11Actually, it didn't go down very well at all.
02:14I was quite surprised.
02:16But yes, okay, marmite on crumpets.
02:19Please tell me that's a British thing because it's always been in my life.
02:22And now the kids are eating marmite on crumpets, which is a big moment for me.
02:27So they approve of marmite?
02:29They do.
02:30They do approve of marmite.
02:30They used to diss me for having marmite in the house, and now they're in the UK.
02:35It's like that's kind of like water under the bridge.
02:37So it's good.
02:38And now you're back.
02:40You're hoping to be doing a lot more work with Wellchild with your other patronages too.
02:44Yeah, of course.
02:45So it's, yes, no longer being 5,000 miles away should make it easier to be more available
02:51to support the charities that need us and that we really enjoy working with.
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