The Sad, Striking Similarities Between Princess Diana and Meghan Markle’s Tell-All Interviews
Twenty-six years apart, the Duchess of Sussex and Princess Diana sat down with two separate journalists for two separate so-called bombshell interviews. Meghan was in Montecito, California. Princess Diana was in her London living room. Meghan had her husband, Prince Harry, by her side. Diana was completely alone. (In fact, Charles had recently admitted to the world he’d had an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.) Meghan had been besieged by negative press attention and racist social-media trolls. Princess Diana had her private phone conversations published and was dubbed unstable by the press. The time, the locations, and the details were different. Yet, now that the dust has begun to settle after Meghan’s broadcast, the shared elements between their stories are clear: Both contended with mental-health struggles, unsurvivable press attention, and faux, failed fairy tales.
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