Harry 'upset' after Diana’s sisters say Meghan had nothing ‘in common'

Prince Harry was reportedly left upset after Princess Diana’s sisters failed to see Meghan Markle’s similarities to his late mother. The Duke of Sussex was just 12 years of age when he lost his mother in August 1997, and, no longer having his mother in his life, Harry was excited to introduce his future wife to her family instead.

Harry, who married Meghan in 2018, excitedly told the BBC that he knows his late mother would have been “over the moon” about his relationship with Meghan—something that her sisters weren’t so sure of.

Royal biographer Tom Bower previously wrote about Harry and Meghan’s meeting with Diana’s sisters in his explosive tell-all book Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors.

Mr Bower wrote: “Harry assumed that Diana’s family and friends would see a similarity between Diana and his fiancée. Both, he said, shared the same problems. He was so disappointed.

“No one agreed that his vulnerable mother had anything in common with his girlfriend. More discomforting for him, they thought Meghan would not fit in with the Royal Family.”

As well as her two sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, Diana had a particularly close relationship with her brother, Charles Spencer.

Mr Bower also revealed that Charles had cautioned his nephew prior to his wedding day in May 2018.

He wrote: “His advice provoked a bitter reaction.

“‘This was going to be really hard,’ Harry would later reflect on establishing Meghan’s place in the family.”

Despite his family’s apparent comments about Meghan, Harry previously spoke of his wife’s similarities to his late mother in their Netflix docuseries in 2022. 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.”