When Monty Roberts met Prince Harry...

I really hope to be able to write, that – when Monty Roberts met Prince Harry together they transformed mental health care for traumatised servicemen and women. That would be brilliant! I can’t write it yet, but if two people could get together and change how we treat mental trauma in the armed forces, it would probably be these two!

Monty Roberts is to meet up with Prince Harry to discuss how to use Monty’s techniques to best help servicemen. As Monty says 

“They lose trust and then they bring them home and they slap them on the back and say ‘thank you for your service — go be a civilian, love your wife, love your children, respect your boss, get a job, goodbye’. And typically that’s how they’re put back into civilian life and it doesn’t work. They find they are disturbed by what they went through. And what we can do with horses to build back that trust is just off the charts.”

Monty’s methods of building trust in horses, are hoped to be put to use in re-building trust in servicemen and women.

Traditionally the armed forces have been less than capable in dealing with mental trauma in its personnel. Hopefully with the support of Prince Harry, who himself served with The Household Cavalry for 10 years, including two tours of Afghanistan, and Monty Roberts, who is a trusted advisor to the Queen, they could potentially transform how we treat our servicemen and women.