No one in the world can erase the tragic memory of August 31, 1997, when one of the most loved Royal Family members Princess Diana died. The Princess of Wales was married to Prince Charles and had two kids—Prince Harry and Prince Williams. She lived one of the most fascinating public lives. Diana was an icon in every sense, but she inspired the fashion world with her royalty and chic fashion sense. She died in an ill-fated accident in Paris.
When Diana left the Hotel Ritz in Paris with her then-boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed in a Mercedes-Benz. The car was passing through an under-bridge near the Seine River and it hit a pillar. Five days after the incident, Queen Elizabeth II released a statement in a public address. The late Queen Elizabeth II sang praises of the Princess. World leaders too paid respect and condolences to Diana. But, how did her own younger son react to her death?
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Prince Harry Was Ready To Take Alcohol And Drugs To Numb The Pain
Princess Diana’s death was one of the tragic incidents that shocked the Royal Family and the world unanimously. When the toxicology reports came through, her driver Henri Paul had an “elevated blood alcohol level”. Before her death, several paparazzi were following her to capture her with Dodi Al-Fayed. During the 2021 Apple+ documentary ‘The Me You Can’t See’, he expressed that he was angry about the tragic accident.
He said, “I was so angry with what happened to her—and the fact that there was no justice at all. Nothing came from that. The same people that chased her into the tunnel photographed her dying in the backseat of that car”. Harry told the host, Oprah Winfrey, about the moment when he was walking behind the coffin of Princess Diana.
The former Royal Family member said, “It was like I was outside of my body and just walking along doing what was expected of me. [I was] showing one-tenth of the emotion that everybody else was showing: This was my mum – you never even met her”.
Prince Charles, the widowed husband of Princess Diana told their children to repress their grief and emotions and deal with it without talking. This led to severe anxiety and panic attacks. He said, “I was just all over the place mentally. Every time I put a suit on and tie on … having to do the role, and go, ‘right, game face’, look in the mirror and say, ‘let’s go’. Before I even left the house I was pouring with sweat. I was in fight-or-flight mode”. To numb the pain, “I was willing to drink, take drugs, and to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling”.
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He Compares Meghan Markle To Princess Diana
On December 8th, 2022, Netflix streamed the first part of a two-part docu-series titled ‘Harry & Meghan’. Liz Garbus directed the docu-series which chronicles the story of the former Royal Family couple with an intimate look.
During the series, he seemingly compared Princess Diana’s “warmth” and “compassion” to that of Meghan Markle. In the first episode of the docu-series, he said, “So much of what Meghan is and how she is, is so similar to my mom. She has the same compassion, empathy, and the same confidence. She has this warmth about her”.
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