Prince Harry suggested he comes from a “broken home” and that made him a "fantastic canditate" for the military.

He also said elements of his childhood were "incredibly painful".

In a globally live-streamed interview on Friday with trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate to promote his memoir, Spare, the Duke said he was a “fantastic candidate for the military”.

He added: “I don’t know how it is around the rest of the world but certainly in the UK we tend to recruit from broken homes - you know, individuals who are ready for it”.

The interview is his first public appearance since it emerged he and wife Meghan have been evicted from Frogmore Cottage.

It has been suggested that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s children may not develop a relationship with the King if the couple are not provided with accommodation in the UK, The Telegraph previously reported.

Dr Mate said at the event, which cost £19.12 per ticket, that the Duke, who served tours in Afghanistan, grew up in an environment where there was a “lack of child being held”, adding of the late Queen Elizabeth: “At some point you wanted to hug your grandmother but it wasn’t done.”

During the interview, Prince Harry also said he had urged other members of the Royal Family to have therapy.

He said that “a lot of families are complicated and a lot of families are dysfunctional as well”, adding that therapy had taught him a “new language” which he felt his relatives did not speak.

“So I actually felt more pushed aside and then I said to my therapist: ‘Ok, I’ve got a problem — this is working for me … so that I can now live a truly authentic life and be genuinely happy and be a better dad for my kids, but at the same time I’m feeling more and more distant from my loved ones and my family, this is a problem’,” he said.

The Duke also said that a therapist had diagnosed him with PTSD previously, triggered by the death of his mother.

He said that he did have “an incredible childhood, elements of it, and elements of it were incredibly painful”, adding that both he and his wife Meghan “try their best to make sure you don’t hand on any traumas that you have as a parent”.