Prince Harry talks ‘trap doors’ and growing up in Buckingham Palace: ‘It’s anything but normal’

Prince Harry recently shed light into what his childhood was like growing up within Buckingham Palace, and whether it had ‘hidden doors and passages’.

Prince Harry and Dr. Gabor Maté weighed in on everything, this Saturday, in a livestream event for the memoir Spare.

The converastion began once Maté asked on the attendee’s behalf, “As a royal child, did you get to roam the castles freely, and did you find any trap doors?”

“That's the assumption, that there were trap doors all over castles. As kids, it was an adventure, running around that kind of a place. What an experience.”

“Not so many trap doors, lots of fun things to investigate, but I guess, it's weird. When you're brought up as a child in that environment, you think that is normal, but it's not. It's anything but normal.”

“So no, some secret doorways and some secret cupboards. None so sophisticated as you pull a book and then all of the sudden a thing opens. I probably would have gotten stuck in there.”