“Princess Diana would have felt that Harry and Meghan probably went nuclear way too soon,” says royal expert Andrew Morton
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Royal expert Andrew Morton said that Princess Diana would have perceived Prince Harry and Meghan Markle acted super fast when they decided to take CBS tell-all interview in March.
“She would have felt that Harry and Meghan probably went nuclear way too soon,” the Crown consultant, 68, told Us Weekly on Monday, April 12. “Diana spoke to me 10 years after she’d been in the royal family, and that was mainly because her marriage was collapsing. [Harry and Meghan are] a couple who seem very much in love, expecting a second child. They seem to have been fighting yesterday’s battles as opposed to looking forward to the future.”
In January 2020 the Duke and Duchess of Sussex declared their decision of giving up their royal duties as working members of the royal family. On March 7, 2021, they participated in a tell-all interview about their time at the palace with Oprah Winfrey.
“It was a damaging interview because it was the first time probably in British history that a prince of the realm has directly attacked the institution from which he’s sprung,” Morton noted.
During the tell-all tales conversation, the pair dropped a number of bombshell revelations that further strained their relationship with the royal family, including the fact that they stepped away from their duties as royals largely due to racist treatment at the hand of The Firm.
Diana, who passed away in August 1997, also sat down for a televised interview in 1995. She tied knots with Prince Charles in 1982 before separating in 1995, touched on many of the same topics as her son in her tell-all: mental health, her relationship with the British tabloids and marriage pressure.
The biographer, also noted that several topics discussed in the interview would have upset the late Princess of Wales.
“She would have ticked off a number of things: feeling a sense of isolation, [the] sense of not being appreciated that Meghan spoke about,” Morton said.
