Meghan Markle asked for guidance at Princess Diana’s grave
Prince Harry has revealed how his then-girlfriend Meghan Markle knelt on his mother Princess Diana’s grave to ask for advice.
In his memoir Spare, which went on sale early yesterday in Spain, he recalled the first time Meghan visited Diana’s final resting place at the Althorp estate, on the 20th anniversary of his mother’s death.
In the book, Harry describes how they rowed to the island where his mother is buried and after taking a moment to think to himself, he felt that Meghan wanted to take a private moment too.
“When I came back she was on her knees with her eyes closed and her palms flat against the stone,” he said, adding that she had told him she had asked Diana for “clarity and guidance.”
Prince Harry, pictured with wife Meghan on a walk in Windsor after the Queen’s death this year, has revealed they visited the grave of his mother Princess Diana on the 20th anniversary of her death
The visit is said to have taken place in August 2017, when the couple had been together for about a year.
The late princess was buried in 1997 at her family home in Althorp House, Northamptonshire, and the tomb was rededicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2017, ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death.
Earl Spencer inherited the family seat of the Althorp estate after his father’s death in 1992 and lives there with his third wife, Karen, and their daughter Lady Charlotte.
Prince Harry has previously spoken about how much Meghan reminds him of his late mother.
In the couple’s amazing Netflix series, which came out last month, he said, “So much of what Meghan is and what she’s like is so much like my mom.
“She has the same compassion. She has the same empathy. She has the same confidence. She has a warmth about her.’
Today, new revelations from Harry emerged in a trailer for his interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby.
The Duke of Sussex described William’s “red fog” in a fight over Meghan before admitting to using cannabis, magic mushrooms and cocaine in another clip of his ITV interview on Sunday.
Harry also urged presenter Tom Bradby that he wants reconciliation with his relatives, even as his memoir has damaged the king and plunged the royal family into its worst crisis since his mother’s death in 1997.
The island on the Althorp estate, Northamptonshire, where Diana, Princess of Wales, was buried
And in a separate teaser released last night by Good Morning America, he admitted that breaking up with William would make their late mother “sad.”
Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, a biographer of Princess Diana, said today: “Harry has turned into a human hand grenade.
Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace have declined to comment on anything Harry has said on TV or in his book.
“It’s exhausting, it’s irritating, but it’s not distracting. It will burn itself out.’
Harry claimed the stand-up altercation at Nottingham Cottage – his flat in Kensington Palace – ended with William grabbing him by the collar and throwing him to the ground, shattering a dog bowl. His back was scraped and bruised, he said.
“He wanted me to hit him back, but I chose not to,” he said of his brother. In the clip released today, Harry told his friend Mr Bradby, “What was different here was the level of frustration, and I’m talking about the red mist I’ve had for so many years, and I saw this red mist in him . ‘
In the short clip of the ITV interview, which will air on Sunday, Harry also addressed the drug use described in Spare.
Mr Bradby told the Duke, ‘There’s a fair amount of drugs (in the book). Marijuana, magic mushrooms, cocaine. I mean, that’s going to surprise people.’
The duke seemed to agree, saying it was ‘important to acknowledge’.
The royal family also stated that he wants to reconcile with his family – something he says cannot happen without ‘some responsibility’.
“I want reconciliation,” he says, “but first there must be accountability.” The duke also said: ‘The truth is probably at this point there’s only one side to the story, right? But every story has two sides.’
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