Prince Harry set to launch his own online university as Duke of Sussex applies for trademark

The Duke of Sussex skipped university and headed straight to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as an officer cadet.

It is a choice, Harry says, that he has never regretted.

Despite his scholastic shortcomings, the duke is part of a team creating its own "life-coaching" online university, as reported by The Mail.

Harry is third in command of the US coaching platform BetterUp and was appointed the company’s "chief impact officer" in March 2021 to focus on "preventative mental fitness".

The Silicon Valley mental health firm offers counselling packages to companies across the globe and the chance to book time with the firm’s experts.

The company now has plans to launch an academic institution called the BetterUp University which will offer degrees in life coaching online.

In newly filed papers, the San Francisco-based outfit has applied to the US Patent and Trademark Office to register its BetterUp University idea.

The application states the university will be "providing online educational forums in the field of life coaching, professional coaching, personal development coaching, and career development coaching".

Despite the duke declaring he intended "to help create impact in people’s lives" with his role at the coaching firm, he was criticised for not appearing in one of their free online livestreams at a San Francisco summit back in April.

Instead, he appeared at a session called Beyond Burnout: Transforming C-Level Stress into Strength, to which tickets sold for £1,200.

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It is a topic the duke claims he can relate to.

In a BetterUp discussion two years ago, Harry admitted he experienced "burnout" and previously felt he was "getting to the very end of everything that I had".

Meanwhile, the duke, 39, has spoken candidly on TV and in his 2023 memoir Spare about his mental health "unravelling", lamenting the lack of "support" he received from the Royal Family.

He also shared he has been in therapy for four years "to heal myself from the past".