Harry & Meghan go on date in Hollywood after eviction from Frogmore Cottage
PRINCE Harry and Meghan brushed off their Frogmore Cottage eviction woes to go out on a date night.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were seen out together for the first time since Harry’s bombshell memoir Spare was published two months ago.
And their date — at Hollywood restaurant San Vicente Bungalows — came days before Harry, 38, joins an hour-long intimate live-streamed conversation and Q&A with members of the public.
Punters have paid from £17 each to listen to Harry chat with addiction expert Dr Gabor Maté.
The pair are due to “discuss the difficulties of living with loss, as well as the importance of personal healing”.
Ticket holders are offered the chance to submit a question, which may be answered live, although they are likely to be screened first.
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Hungarian-Canadian physician Dr Maté has a special interest in drug addiction and the potential lifelong impacts of childhood trauma.
The 79-year-old has even run a “deep healing” retreat in the Amazon jungle at a resort specialising in healing guests with hallucinogenic natural high ayahuasca.
In Spare, Harry described in incredible detail his history of taking magic mushrooms, snorting cocaine and smoking cannabis.
And in recent months he has opened up about childhood trauma — including how he coped with the death of his mother Princess Diana when he was 12.
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The Duke has also spoken about his personal use of ayahuasca — a Class A drug in the UK.
In one interview to promote his memoir, he described taking the psychoactive drug.
He said: “Doing it with the right people if you are suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief or trauma, then these things have a way of working as a medicine.
“For me, they cleared the windscreen, the windshield of the misery of loss.”
In another, Harry said: “I started to go slightly off the rails, and deal with it through drinking and drugs.
“And then my life started to alter and completely change, because I wanted, or had no other choice, to confront the very thing that I had been running from, or scared of, for all those years.
“I convinced myself that she [Diana] must have wanted me to cry.
“That’s the only way I can prove to her that I still miss her. But then after taking ayahuasca with the proper people, I suddenly realised, ‘Wow! It’s not about crying, she wants me to be happy’.
“So this weight off my chest was not the need to cry, it was the acceptance and realisation that she has gone, but that she wants me to be happy and she’s still very much present in my life.”
In his 2008, book In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Dr Maté wrote about William and Harry talking about their mother’s death, saying it was something the Queen’s generation would have avoided.
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He wrote: “I think they are right to be leading and validating that sense of enquiry, without which life is not worth living.”
Dr Maté is also behind the controversial Insite clinic in Vancouver, Canada — the first legal site in North America for drug addicts to inject themselves with heroin.
