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Prince Harry has revealed how his then-girlfriend Meghan Markle knelt on the grave of his mother Princess Diana to ask for her guidance.
Writing in her memoir bomb Spare, which went on sale early in Spain yesterday, she recalled the first time Meghan visited Diana’s final resting place on the Althorp estate, on the 20th anniversary of her mother’s death.
In the book, Harry describes how they rowed to the island where his mother is buried, and after taking a moment to reflect, he sensed that Meghan wanted a private moment too.
“When I came back, she was on her knees with her eyes closed and her palms flat against the stone,” he said, adding that she had told him she had asked Diana for “clarity and guidance.”
Prince Harry, pictured with his wife Meghan out for a walk in Windsor after the queen’s death this year, has revealed that they visited the grave of his mother, Princess Diana, on the 20th anniversary of her death.
The visit would have taken place in August 2017, when the couple had been together for approximately a year.
The late princess was buried at her childhood home of Althorp House, Northamptonshire in 1997, and the grave was rededicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2017 ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death.
Earl Spencer inherited the family seat of the Althorp estate upon his father’s death in 1992 and lives there with his third wife, Karen, and daughter Lady Charlotte.
Prince Harry has previously spoken about how much Meghan reminds him of his late mother.
On the couple’s bombshell Netflix series, released last month, he said: “A lot of what Meghan is and what she’s like, she’s very similar to my mother.”
She has the same compassion. She has the same empathy. She has the same confidence. She has this warmth about her.
Today we saw new revelations emerge from Harry in a trailer for his interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby.
The Duke of Sussex described William’s ‘red fog’ in a fight over Meghan before admitting to taking cannabis, magic mushrooms and cocaine in another clip from his ITV interview, which aired on Sunday.
Harry also insisted to presenter Tom Bradby that he wants reconciliation with his family, even though his memories hurt the King and plunged the royal family into its worst crisis since his mother’s death in 1997.
The island on the Althorp estate, Northamptonshire, where Diana, Princess of Wales, was buried.
And in a separate sneak peek posted by Good Morning America last night, she admitted that breaking up with William would make her late mother “sad.”
Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, Princess Diana’s biographer, said today: “Harry has been turned into a human hand grenade. It’s raining on the House of Windsor just at the beginning of his father’s reign.”
Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace have refused to comment on anything Harry has said on television or in his book.
It’s exhausting, it’s infuriating, but it’s not distracting. It will burn itself.
Harry claimed that the standing line at Nottingham Cottage, his Kensington Palace apartment, ended with William grabbing him by the neck and throwing him to the ground, smashing a dog bowl. His back was scraped and bruised, he said.
“He wanted me to hit him back, but I decided against it,” he said of his brother. In the clip posted earlier today, Harry told his friend Mr Bradby: “What was different here was the level of frustration, and I’m talking about the red mist I had for so many years, and I saw this red mist in him.” . ‘
The short clip from the ITV interview, which will air on Sunday, also had Harry address Spare’s detailed drug use.
Bradby told the Duke: “There is a fair amount of drugs [in the book]. Marijuana, magic mushrooms, cocaine. I mean, that’s going to surprise people.
The duke seemed to agree, saying it was “important to acknowledge it.”
The royal also stated that she wants to reconcile with her family, something she says can’t happen without “some responsibility.”
‘I want reconciliation,’ he says, ‘but first there has to be some accountability.’ The duke also said: ‘The truth, supposedly, at this time, has only been one side of the story, right? But, there are two sides to every story.