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Prince Harry Clarifies Future Plans Amid Reports of Reconciliation with King Charles
Prince Harry has taken an unexpected step to clear the air about his future plans, following reports of reconciliation with King Charles.
The Duke of Sussex has apparently decided to create his own online institution and has applied for a trademark.
It arose amid suspicion that King Charles had accelerated efforts to mend a gap with his son in his life.
Harry, who struggled academically at Eton College and departed with a D in A-level geography and a B in art, is poised to reveal a new effort with the US tutoring platform BetterUp.
The father of two, who bypassed university and went directly to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as an officer cadet, is a key member of a team developing its own ‘life-coaching’ university.
The Duke is third in command of the platform and was named the company’s ‘chief impact officer’ in March 2021, with a rumoured salary of more than $1 million, to focus on ‘preventative mental fitness’.
The Silicon Valley mental health startup intends to establish BetterUp University, which will provide online degrees in life coaching.
In freshly filed documents, the San Francisco-based company has applied to the US Patent and Trademark Office to register its BetterUp University concept.
According to the application, the university will offer “online educational forums in the fields of life coaching, professional coaching, personal development coaching, and career development coaching.”
In a BetterUp discussion two years ago, Harry acknowledged to having “burnout” and feeling like he was “getting to the very end of everything that I had”.
He has spoken honestly about his mental health “unravelling” on TV and in his 2023 memoir Spare, decrying the Royal Family’s lack of “support”. He also revealed that he had been in treatment for four years “to heal myself from the past”.
