Prince Harry left 'upset' after Princess Diana's sisters dismiss Meghan Markle comparison

Prince Harry was reportedly left hurt after his late mother’s sisters said they didn’t think Meghan Markle had anything in common with Princess Diana.

According to royal biographer Tom Bower, when Harry introduced Meghan to Diana’s sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, ahead of the royal wedding in 2018, he had high hopes they’d see the same qualities in Meghan that reminded him of his mum.

But that wasn’t the case.

“No one agreed that his vulnerable mother had anything in common with his girlfriend,” Bower wrote in Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors.

“More discomforting for him, they thought Meghan would not fit in with the Royal Family.”

Harry was reportedly “disappointed” and “upset” by their reaction. Even Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, warned Harry to be cautious before the wedding, advice that apparently didn’t sit well with the prince.

“This was going to be really hard,” Harry later reflected about trying to find Meghan’s place in the royal fold.

Still, Harry has stood by the comparison, even publicly. In the couple’s 2022 Netflix docuseries, he said: “So much of what Meghan is and how she is, is so similar to my mum. She has the same compassion, the same empathy, the same confidence. She has this warmth about her.”

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