Diana would not have been a 'great fan' of Meghan Markle as she 'might imagine', a former friend of the Princess of Wales has said on the 25th anniversary of the royal's death. The Princess' diarist Tina Brown said she thinks Diana would have seen the former actress as someone who is 'steering Harry in a direction that was not good' for the Prince.
Speaking to the Daily Beast, she added that Diana would also have been 'thrilled' by the Duke meeting his wife who has made 'her son was happy'.
Ms Brown has previously said Megxit had affected the Royal Family, saying they were 'still reeling' and 'just baffled' at why the relationship with the Sussexes suddenly deteriorated.
The brothers paid their own private respects to Princess Diana yesterday, on the 25th anniversary of her death, rather than doing so jointly in public as in previous years.
Princes William and Harry were just 15 and 12 when their mother was tragically killed in a car crash in a Paris underpass in the early hours of August 31, 1997.
William and Harry: The royal brothers' rift 25 years after Diana's death
Harry said of William when he turned 21: 'Ever since our mother died, obviously we were close, but he is the one person on this earth who I can actually really… we can talk about anything.'
The brothers at Harry´s wedding in 2018
Ms Brown has previously said Megxit had affected the Royal Family, saying they were 'still reeling' and 'just baffled' at why the relationship with the Sussexes suddenly deteriorated.
The Duchess of Cambridge was publicly singled out by Meghan for allegedly making her cry in the run-up to the wedding.
But Robert Lacey, author of Battle Of Brothers: William, Harry And The Inside Story Of A Family In Turmoil, said there were problems much earlier, including in 2005 when Harry was condemned for dressing up as a Nazi for a 'Colonials and Natives' party.
Mr Lacey wrote: 'The young prince began re-evaluating his elder brother's involvement and the unfairness of William's subsequent emergence smelling of roses. It made Harry feel alienated.
On the 20th anniversary of her death in 2017, William and Harry were side by side as they viewed tributes left for the princess at her former home, Kensington Palace.
But in the wake of the Megxit and Oprah controversies, they reunited only briefly in the summer of 2021 to finally unveil the bronze tribute, going their separate ways immediately afterwards.