The world is in a period of reenchantment with Diana. “I’ve got what my mum left me, and without that, we would not have been able to do this,” he said. Harry also said he was completely cut off financially after he stepped back from the royal family in early 2020. “And that brought back memories.” Memories, the implication was, of Diana. “It was the first time that the family got to see how incredible she is at the job,” Harry said of Meghan. (Have Harry and Meghan watched The Crown? Oprah asked.
And Oprah, leaping on the parallel, brought up The Crown, which in its just-aired fourth season depicts a jealous Charles becoming disenchanted with Diana after she “bedazzles” the populace on her own Australian tour. The pair mentioned the family’s attitude toward Meghan changing after their royal tour of Australia in 2018. When you can see something happening in the same kind of way, anybody would ask for help.” “What I was seeing was history repeating itself,” Harry said, adding, “When I’m talking about history repeating itself, I’m talking about my mother. (“Because it’s like, who else could understand what it’s actually like on the inside?” she told Oprah.) Harry repeatedly invoked the idea that Meghan’s trials within the royal family - press harassment, struggles with depression, lack of support - were exactly what his mother went through, only worse, because this time there was racism and social media trolls to worry about. Meghan said that while she was struggling inside the walls of the palace with no help from her in-laws, she turned to an unnamed friend of Diana’s. Meghan was drawing an implicit parallel: Diana went to the press to speak hard truths about the royal family, and now she and Harry were doing the same thing. Early on, Meghan brought up Diana’s famous 1995 interview with Martin Bashir, when the princess - then separated from Charles - infamously said “there were three of us” in her marriage. The explicit parallels would come later.īecause Diana was everywhere in the discussion. That choice set the tone for the conversation, invoking Diana’s ghost without even needing to mention her name. Meghan didn’t wear Diana’s aquamarine ring to the Oprah interview, but she did have on another token that belonged to her husband’s mother: one of Diana’s diamond bracelets. Harry and Meghan’s explosive Oprah interview, explained And they are going to give Diana’s story a happy ending at last. They are carrying on her story, the part about freedom and escape, they suggested. Specifically, they have positioned themselves as heirs to the idea of Diana as the one who almost got out - the royal escapee whose freedom was tragically cut short.ĭuring their much-discussed CBS interview with Oprah that aired March 7, Harry and Meghan further established that alignment, presenting a subliminal argument about Diana. Meghan, the princess who would ultimately break with the royal family and take Harry with her, was granted the ring of freedom.Īnd ever since then, Harry and Meghan have worked to align themselves with Diana’s legacy. Kate, the princess who would be alternately mocked and celebrated for her dutifulness, inherited the ring of obligation. If this were a fairy tale, you could say after that: And thus their fates were sealed. Kate continues to wear the ring regularly, as seen in most photos taken of her out in public.īut when Prince Harry married Meghan Markle in 2018, he gave her another piece of jewelry from Diana’s collection: an emerald-cut aquamarine ring his mother commissioned from the British jeweler Asprey, using a stone her friend Lucia Flecha de Lima gave her following her separation from Prince Charles (to replace that sapphire engagement ring). It’s an enormous blue sapphire, said to be inspired by one of the brooches Prince Albert gifted Queen Victoria.
When Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton in 2010, he gave her Diana’s old engagement ring, the one Charles gave her after he proposed, when Diana was 19 and Charles was 32. There’s a story about Meghan Markle, Kate Middleton, and Princess Diana that feels like it should be fake because it fits the way we talk about them too well.
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