Prince Harry has described how Meghan Markle, who was then dating him, knelt beside Princess Diana’s grave and prayed for guidance.
He remembered the first time she visited Diana’s final burial place on the Althorp estate in his explosive memoir Spare, which went on sale early in Spain yesterday.
On the 20th anniversary of his mother’s passing, Harry recalled how they traveled by boat to the island where she is buried.
He had a moment to himself to contemplate before he realized Meghan too needed some alone time.
‘When I returned, she was on her knees with her eyes closed and her palms flat against the stone,’ he said, adding that she’d told him she’d asked Diana for ‘clarity and guidance’.
The visit happened in August 2017, around a year after the pair started dating.
When he visited the Queen’s body at Balmoral hours after she passed away, Prince Harry says his farewell words to her.
At her childhood home of Althorp House in Northamptonshire, the late Princess was put to rest in 1997. The burial was rededicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2017 in advance of the 20th anniversary of her passing.
Following his father’s passing in 1992, Earl Spencer received the family estate of Althorp, where he now resides with his third wife, Karen, and their daughter, Lady Charlotte.
Prince Harry has mentioned how Meghan makes him think of his late mother.
In the couple’s bombshell Netflix series, released last month, he said: ‘So much of what Meghan is and how she is, 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.’
In a preview for his interview with Tom Bradby of ITV, Harry made some brand-new revelations today.
The Duke of Sussex described William’s ‘red mist’ in a fight over Meghan before admitting that he took cannabis, magic mushrooms and cocaine in another clip from his ITV interview, out on Sunday.
In addition, Harry insisted to Mr. Bradby that he wants to make amends with his family, despite the fact that the King has been hurt by his memoir and that it has caused the Royal Family’s deepest crisis since the passing of his mother in 1997.