Haunted by his mother’s tragic death in 1997, Prince Harry admits he fears that his wife, Meghan Markle, will go through the same fate.
“My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone that wasn’t white and now look what’s happened. You want to talk about history repeating itself, they’re not going to stop until [Meghan] dies,” he said in the docuseries,’The Me You Can’t See’ with Oprah Winfrey.
At the time, Diana’s then-partner was Dodi Fayed, who was an Egyptian film producer. The both of them were killed in a Paris car crash after being chased by the paparazzi through a tunnel, inciting public outrage. Many accused that the blood of their beloved princess is on the paparazzi’s hands.
“It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life, but the list is growing,” he went on. “And it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry. My father [Prince Charles] used to say to me, …’Well, it was like that for me. So it’s going to be like that for you,’” Harry also said.
He went on to say that the advice “doesn’t make sense”, and is focused on “breaking the cycle” of “suffering” in the Royal Family. Both Harry and Meghan announced that they were stepping back from their roles as senior working royals in 2020, and became financially independent by 2021.
Together with their cherubic 2-year-old son Archie and a baby girl on the way, the couple lives in Montecito, California, just 90 miles away from Meghan’s hometown of Los Angeles.
Speaking about his memory of his mother, the 36-year-old said,
“She was almost unable to drive because of the tears, there was no protection. One of the feelings that come up is helplessness. Being too young, being a guy too young to be able to help a woman, in this case, your mother. And that happened every single day until the day she died.”
*Cover image via Getty Images