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The Prince of Wales has said “the best way to prevent suicide is to talk about it” as he discusses the devastating impact it has in an incredibly emotional new film.
William, 43, who has long campaigned to challenge the stigma around mental health and encourage people to talk about their problems, sits down with Rhian Mannings to discuss the impact her husband’s suicide – just five days after losing her one-year-old son – had on her and their two children.
Grief, she says, is an “emptiness, physical pain, your heart hurts, your limbs hurt, you ache”, but losing someone to suicide “leaves so many questions unanswered”.
As Mrs Mannings, who set up the bereavement charity 2wish, recalls the stigma around suicide and not knowing how she coped raising a two and three-year-old after experiencing such unimaginable loss, William appears profoundly moved.
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Fighting back tears, the Prince looks away from her and up at the ceiling as he attempts to compose himself. He takes a deep breath while running his hand through his beard as a calming mechanism, prompting Mrs Mannings to ask: “Are you okay?”
This prompts William to reach across the table and hold her hand, before apologising. “I’m sorry,” he said. “It’s just, it’s hard to ask these questions that I…”
Mrs Mannings interjects: “No, it’s fine. It’s just, you’ve got children. It’s hard … and you’ve experienced loss yourself.” Clasping his hands around a mug of hot tea, he said: “It’s okay.”
William's second cousin by marriage, Thomas Kingston, died by suicide last year.
The eight-minute film, released today to mark World Mental Health Day, also coincides with the launch of a National Suicide Prevention Network by the Prince and Princess of Wales’s Royal Foundation, which aims to transform suicide prevention across the UK.
Backed by more than 20 organisations and a £1million donation from The Royal Foundation, the initiative aims to deliver lasting change in how suicide is understood and prevented across the four nations over an initial three-year period.
The network has been founded on the hope and belief that by working together, more can be done to prevent the 7,055 deaths that are caused by suicide in the UK every year.
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William’s new film starts with Mrs Mannings recalling the deaths of her son and husband within five days of each other in 2012. She experienced unimaginable heartache when her son George died just a week after his first birthday. He had suddenly fallen in and died within two hours of being admitted to hospital.
“Five days later, after we lost George, probably the unimaginable, really happened,” she said. “Something that we could never have ever been prepared for, totally unexpected. Was Paul walked out of the house and took his own life.”
Since then, she founded 2wish to ensure that all those affected by the sudden and unexpected death of a child or young adult aged 25 or under receive the bereavement support they need and deserve.
William first met Mrs Mannings in 2017 during the filming of a BBC documentary about people using marathon training to help their mental health, which saw the Prince open up on his own “shock” of losing his mother.
In the new film, William is seen visiting her home in Cardiff earlier this month, where she speaks candidly to him about the devastating losses and isolation that followed.
Sitting down at the kitchen table to tea and Welsh cakes, the Prince asked if she experienced a stigma because her husband died by suicide. “I was quite surprised by it,” she said. “I’d never been touched by suicide, it was something that happened in the news. Nobody would talk about it or actually say what happened. And I found that really confusing at the time.”
The conversation then becomes more challenging, with William asking about the unanswered questions she has and what the one thing she would say to him is. “There’s only one thing I would ever say to him if I had time with him. And that would be, ‘Why didn’t you speak to me?’”
Mrs Mannings continued: “Because he’s missed out on just so much joy, and we would have been okay. And I think that’s what the hardest thing is, we would have been okay.” It’s at that point that William takes a moment to compose himself before discussing the importance of talking about suicide and thanking her for being so open about her experience.
“The best way to prevent suicide is to talk about it,” he said. “Talk about it early, talk about it with your loved ones, those you trust, your friends. So thank you for talking about it.”
Earlier in the film, Mrs Mannings urges people to “stand together” and talk about it to help others. “This really doesn’t have to be what happens,” she says.
Finishing on a light-hearted note, William is introduced to Mrs Mannings’ two children and their grandmother, with the Prince saying he will eat her homemade Welsh cakes on the journey home.
After waving goodbye to their royal guest, Mrs Mannings turns to her mother, laughing, and says: “He’s taken your Tupperware!”
If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this story, information and support can be found at the Hub of Hope, the UK’s largest mental health support directory: https://hubofhope.co.uk/. You can call the Samaritans free at any time from any phone on 116 123. Lines are open 24 hours a day. You can also email jo@samaritans.org