Harry Shares How He Thinks Princess Diana Would React to His Stepping Back
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Prince Harry believes that his late mother, Princess Diana, would have felt "very angry" and "very sad" over how his and Duchess Meghan's stepping back from the royal family has panned out, with tabloids scrutinizing their every move to the point where it was severely detrimental to Meghan's mental health and the apparent lack of support from the royal family. As someone who was so hounded by the media, Diana would have just wanted her son and daughter-in-law to be happy, Harry shared.
"I think she would feel very angry with how this has panned out. And very sad," he said during his and Meghan's televised interview with Oprah Winfrey last night. "But ultimately, all she'd ever wanted was for us to be happy."
The Duke of Sussex explained to Winfrey that his "biggest concern" in stepping back as senior royals "was history repeating itself," referring to Diana's passing in 1997. In addition to being intensely followed by the press during her time in the spotlight, the princess died in a car crash while being followed by paparazzi.
"And what I was seeing was history repeating itself, but more perhaps ... or definitely far more dangerous because then you add race in," Harry said in the interview. "And you add social media in. And when I'm talking about history repeating itself, I'm talking about my mother."
When the Duchess of Sussex was struggling mentally and emotionally during her time in the palace, she reached out to one of Diana's best friends for advice, she revealed.
"And one of the people that I reached out to, who's continued to be a friend and confidante, was one of my husband's mom's best friends, one of Diana's best friends. Because it's like, Who else could understand what it's actually like on the inside?" Meghan said.
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