Twenty six years apart, the Duchess of Sussex and Princess Diana sat down with two separate journalists for two separate “bombshell” interviews. Meghan was in Montecito. Princess Diana was in her London living room. Meghan had her husband, Prince Harry, by her side. Diana was completely alone. (In fact, Charles had recently admitted to the world he’d had an affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles.) Meghan had been besieged by negative press attention and racist social media trolls. Princess Diana had her private phone conversations published and was dubbed “unstable” by the press. The time, the locations, and the details were different. Yet, now that the dust has begun to settle after Meghan’s broadcast, the shared elements between their stories are clear: both contended with mental health struggles, unsurvivable press attention, and faux, failed fairytales.
A quick explainer, for the uninitiated: in November 1995, Princess Diana participated in an interview with BBC journalist Martin Bashir. It was unsanctioned by Buckingham Palace. No topic was off limits, including Diana’s bulimia, depression, and failed union with Prince Charles. (“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded,” she famously said about his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles.) Nearly 40 percent of the United Kingdom’s population watched the interview—and, as a result, the public’s reception of the monarchy was significantly damaged.
Two and a half decades later, her son and his wife undertook their own tell-all, Oprah with Meghan and Harry, after quitting the royal family.
The language both women used is hauntingly similar: “You think you have knowledge of what’s coming ahead,” Princess Diana told Bashir in 1995. “I didn’t fully understand what the job was,” the Duchess of Sussex said to Oprah Winfrey in 2021. “I seemed to be on the front of a newspaper every single day,” said Diana. “I am everywhere,” Meghan echoed, years later. Diana felt thwarted by “people in her environment.” Meghan, meanwhile, spoke of the intangible “institution.” “I didn’t like myself. I was ashamed because I couldn't cope with the pressures,” Diana revealed. “I was really ashamed to say it at the time,” Meghan said. “But. . . I just didn’t want to be alive anymore.”
Both women admitted they struggled with self-harm: Meghan had suicidal thoughts. (“I just didn’t see a solution,” she said.) Diana, meanwhile, suffered from postpartum depression and cut herself. (“You felt misunderstood, and just very, very low in yourself.”) Both felt woefully unsupported: “I was the first person ever to be in this family who ever had a depression or was ever openly tearful. And obviously that was daunting, because if you've never seen it before how do you support it?” said Diana. “When no one listens to you, or you feel no one's listening to you, all sorts of things start to happen.” Meghan asked to seek treatment, but she says she was told it wasn’t a feasible option.
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