The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed baby Archie into the world (Image: GETTY)
But he lovingly revealed how three day old Archie has "given him a new focus and goal" and how "special" he is finding fatherhood. The Duke of Sussex revealed his feelings to another former soldier yesterday in The Hague as he made a flying visit to The Netherlands to launch next year's Invictus Games which take place in the Dutch city. During a bike ride around the Zuiderpark in the city, Harry, 34, opened up to Dennis van der Stroon, 31, a former Dutch soldier who hopes to compete in track and field and sitting volleyball at next year's event. Once away from the cameras, Harry opened up about his new son and the late Princess of Wales. Dennis, who served in the army from 2006 until 2011, said: "At a certain moment, we just got connected on this level. I told Harry about my mother and we talked about our shared experience of missing a mum. He said missing a mother is like missing some kind of security, how you need that as a son and it falls away when you lose your mother.
"He said he meets a lot of people in his work who have lost a mother, father, sister, brother or relatives and when he hears their story, as he heard my story, he said he doesn't feel so alone.
"We talked about how my wife, Mireille, is 20 weeks pregnant with our first child, a girl, and he told me how special it was that his son has just been born.
"Harry talked about how having a small child was his new focus
