A close friend to Princess Diana revealed the reaction she would’ve had to Prince Harry’s interview
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, shook the world with his recent, 30-minute-long interview with the BBC.
Even though, as per HELLO! it was reported that King Charles was left “frustrated and upset”, royal author Ingrid Seward, who was quite close to Princess Diana until her unexpected death in 1997, believes the deceased Princess of Wales would have been “proud.”
On the A Right Royal Podcast, Ingrid recalled Diana’s shocking Panorama interview, which came two years before her death and the one regret she had about it.
“I saw her quite shortly after that, so obviously I asked her, and she said, ‘No, I don’t regret any of it’,” the royal author admitted in the episode.
Ingrid continued, “She said, ‘I got thousands of letters about other people who suffered from anorexia and bulimia’. So that’s how she twisted it.”
“She said, ‘The only thing I felt a bit bad about was talking about James Hewitt.’ She had said, if you remember, that she was in love with him, or had been in love with him, and she felt bad for William and Harry saying that,” she added.
“She, at that moment, thought it was a successful interview,” Ingrid recalled.
Speaking further on how Diana would’ve reacted to this move her younger son made, which comes six years after his uncle, Prince Andrew gave a rather problematic interview to Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight, Ingrid said, “I think she might have been proud, ‘I’m glad you said what you thought.’”
“I think she would, I’m guessing, that she might have been quite proud of him for speaking up and saying what he thought, because that’s what she liked. She liked to say exactly what she thought and then deal with the consequences afterwards, which is, of course, what happened to her,” she concluded.
