Royal heartbreak: How Prince Harry echoed Princess Diana’s tragic confession

Harry and his wife Meghan Markle concerned royal fans across the globe recently when they released the ITV documentary ‘Harry and Meghan: An African Journey’ last month. Meghan revealed she

felt she was “existing” rather than “living” due to the public scrutiny she has faced over the last few years. Harry also admitted his grief for Diana has not subsided with time, and

referred to it as “a wound that festers”.

In her 2018 biography, ‘Harry: Conversations with the Prince’, Angela Levin also showed how Harry has continued to think of his mother throughout his career.

In 2015, he gave an interview to Sky TV on what he was planning to do upon leaving the army. He said: “Whatever it is hopefully it will be something that means I can still give something

back, I suppose.

“This is part of the job. Royal work is fantastic but both William and I feel we need to have a wage.”

Although he emphasised how he and his brother needed to work with “normal people to keep ourselves sane”.

Ms Levin continued: “He then added a comment that was very similar to the one, Diana, Princess of Wales told him just after her separation from Prince Charles: ‘I have to go along with the

way my life is, and in many ways I’m very privileged’.”

Only a few years later, in her confessional 1995 BBC Panorama interview, Diana re-iterated exactly how she continued to persevere with her royal duties despite her public spats with Prince

Charles and the intensity of public interest she faced in her day to day life.

“I’ve been in a privileged position for 15 years. I’ve got tremendous knowledge about people and how to communicate. I’ve learnt that, I’ve got that and I want to use it.”

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She added: “As I have all this media interest, let’s not just sit in this country and be battered by it. Let’s take them, these people, out to represent this country and the good qualities

of it.

“When I go abroad we’ve got 60 to 90 photographers, just from this courtly, coming with me, so let’s use it in a productive way, to help this country.”

The Princess of Wales explained she did not “feel sorry for myself in any way” as she had “my work that I choose to do” and “my boys”.

Diana raised her sons to be conscious of the advantages they have in life.

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As Harry explained to Ms Levin: “My mother took a huge part in showing me an ordinary life, including taking me and my brother to see homeless people.

As Ms Levin explained, despite coming from aristocracy, Diana was “instinctively drive to help people who have very few chances in life”.

She added: “She could have had no idea at the time what a lasting and powerful effect this would have on their lives. Both sons wanted to follow in her footsteps. Helping those in need or

shunned by society has become the bedrock of their royal beings.”

While it is not known exactly what Diana told her sons when she announced her separation from Charles in December 1992, Ms Levin reported that Diana did so “in a voice barely above a whisper

and looking down at the floor to avoid seeing their face”.

She then informed the two of them that the then Prime Minister would be announcing their divorce the following day.

According to Ms Levin: “William burst into tears but Harry’s instant comment –‘I hope you will both be happier now’ – revealed how perceptive he was.

“He also asked if there was anything he could do to make Mummy and Daddy happy again.”

While he was in Angola, Harry also honoured his mother by visiting the anti-landmine campaigns and walking along the same dangerous path his mother did in 1997 to show her support for the

removal of all landmines.

Harry and Meghan are currently on a break away from their royal duties to celebrate Thanksgiving. They will not be spending Christmas at Sandringham with the Queen this year.

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