Prince Harry has made no secret of the similarities he sees between his wife, Meghan Markle, and his late mother, Princess Diana.
In his 2022 Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan, he stated that’so much of what and how Meghan is’ is’so similar’ to his mother, who died tragically when he was only 12 years old.
Harry praised that she had Diana’s compassion, sensitivity, confidence, and kindness.
In an interview with the BBC in 2017, shortly before he and Meghan walked down the aisle, Harry stated that Diana would have been ‘over the moon’ about the lady he chose to spend his life with.
According to accounts, not everyone who has met both women agrees on this comparison.
Harry was reportedly left ‘disappointed’ after he introduced his former Suits star wife to Diana’s sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, in the early days of their relationship.
The assertion comes from royal author Tom Bower, who published Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors in July 2022.
He even revealed that Harry’s aunts thought Meghan would ‘not fit in with the royal family’.
Bower said, “Harry assumed Diana’s family and friends would recognize a resemblance between Diana and his fiancée.” Both, he stated, had the same difficulties. He was quite disappointed.
“No one agreed that his vulnerable mother shared anything in common with his fiancée.
“More discomforting for him, they thought Meghan would not fit in with the royal family.”
Regardless of their reported concerns, Harry married Meghan in 2018 and they have two children together.
The allegations come as Meghan acknowledged to feeling ‘very lonely’ following reports of her ‘professional separation’ from husband Harry.
Over the previous six months, the Duchess of Sussex has worked on a number of business ventures, including her Netflix series With Love, Meghan, her lifestyle company As Ever, and her podcast Confessions of a Female Entrepreneur.
While Meghan and Harry have a common Netflix docu-series and the nonprofit organization Archewell, reports surfaced in late 2024 that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were entering into a ‘professional separation’.
According to GB News, the couple is creating their own ‘royal’ domestic structure as they officially divide their professional lives. This includes their own chief of staff.
It also does not imply that they are genuinely separating; rather, the couple will focus on their respective initiatives rather than embarking on them together.