Meghan Markle may have never met Princess Diana, but according to Prince Harry, echoes of his late mother live on in his wife.
During her first-ever podcast interview on The Jamie Kern Lima Show (April 28), the Duchess of Sussex, 43, reflected on the comparison as host Kern Lima recalled Harry once saying Meghan reminds him of Diana in more ways than one.
Kern Lima said, “So Harry said publicly, ‘So much of what Megan is and how she is so similar to my mum. She has the same compassion. She has the same empathy. She has the same confidence. She has this warmth about her.’ How do you feel about him sharing that?”
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“It’s beautiful,” Meghan replied. “I wish I could have met her.”
Prince Harry was just 12 when Princess Diana died, but he and Meghan have kept her memory close, as reported by PEOPLE. From incorporating Diana’s diamonds into Meghan’s engagement ring to placing her photo in their son’s room, the couple continues to honor her legacy.
In his memoir Spare, Harry also revealed that he first reached out to Meghan on July 1, 2016 — what would have been Diana’s birthday — after spotting her on a friend’s Instagram feed.
“Eventually, we exchanged phone numbers and mitigated the conversation over to text, going late into the night,” Harry wrote in Spare, adding that he was “texting like a teenager” through the following day. “It occurred to me how uncanny, how surreal, how bizarre, that this marathon conversation should have begun on July 1, 2016. My mother’s fifty-fifth birthday.”
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In 2022, Meghan and Prince Harry made a poignant visit to Princess Diana’s burial site at Althorp, the Spencer family estate in Northamptonshire, marking the couple’s first time there together.
“No visit to this place was ever easy, but this one… twenty-fifth anniversary,” Prince Harry wrote in Spare. “And Meg’s first time. At long last, I was bringing the girl of my dreams home to meet mum.”
“We hesitated, hugging, and then I went first. I placed flowers on the grave. Meg gave me a moment, and I spoke to my mother in my head, told her I missed her, asked her for guidance and clarity,” he continued. “Feeling that Meg might also want a moment, I went around the hedge, scanned the pond. When I came back, Meg was kneeling, eyes shut, palms against the stone.”
“I asked, as we walked back to the boat, what she’d prayed for,” Prince Harry added. “Clarity, she said. And guidance.”
