Prince Harry remained deeply “disappointed” by the encounter between Princess Diana and Meghan Markle’s family

Crazy of love, Prince Harry hastened to present Meghan Markle to the family of his deceased mother, Princess Diana. The future Duke of Sussex then turned to the Spencer brothers and sisters to present his beloved, but, unfortunately … not everything went as expected.

As soon as they met in 2016, the two became inseparable and started seeing themselves in secret. Some of the qualities of which Prince Harry has fallen in love reminds him of his deceased mother, as he confided in 2022: «There are so many things in Meghan, in his way of being, that my mother remind me. He has the same compassion, the same empathy », he assured in the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan. Convinced that the meeting would go well with the brothers and sisters of Diana, Harry had not foreseen the storm of disappointments he then had to face ».

Lady Diana grew up in a lively family, together with her two older sisters, Jane Fellowes And Sarah McCorquodaleand to the younger brother, Charles Spencer. The royal biographer Tom Bower He retraced the first meeting between Meghan and the Spencer brothers, a meeting that has not far disturbed Prince Harry. “Harry has presumed that Diana’s family and friends would grasp a certain similarity between his mother and his girlfriend,” explains Bower. “Both, he said, shared the same problems. Instead it was very disappointed ». According to the biographer: «Nobody recognized that his vulnerable mother had something in common with her girlfriend. Even more he disappointed it to find that they thought that Meghan would not integrate into the royal family ».

However, it took quite more to discourage Harry who, although deeply saddened, did not listen to the words of the maternal family. In 2018, the younger son of King Charles III married Meghan in the Chapel of San Giorgio a Windsor, in front of the eyes of the whole world. Six years later, the couple is still very united and has had two children: Lilibet, who has just turned 4, and Archie, born in 2019 and who is 6 years old today. Furthermore, the couple continues to pay homage to Princess Diana, especially Meghan through her style. In his lifestyle series, With love, meghanreleased last March, the Duchess showed off a Cartier Tank Française in gold, a jewel worn by her mother -in -law in the 90s.