{"id":493264,"date":"2025-10-12T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493264\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:42:13","slug":"harry-wouldnt-have-married-meghan-if-his-mom-was-alive-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493264\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry &#8216;wouldn&#8217;t have married&#8217; Meghan if his mom was alive &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former royal staff member has suggested Prince Harry would never have married <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> if his mom was still alive, after <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/182091\/princess-diana-last-words-firefighter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she died in a car crash in Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on a recent podcast, Paul Burrell &#8211; who served as <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/princess-diana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess Diana&#8217;s<\/a> trusted confidante &#8211; discussed <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry&#8217;s<\/a> marriage to Meghan.<\/p>\n<p>After serving Princess Diana for 10 years before her death, Burrell developed an intimate bond with the princess and was regarded as among her most reliable allies. Also among Diana&#8217;s friends was her hairdresser, who recently <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/news\/royals\/185666\/princess-diana-hairdresser-sets-record-straight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke out about rumors surrounding the late princess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burrell also spent considerable time with Diana&#8217;s sons, Prince William and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though he no longer maintains connections with the princes&#8217; lives, Burrell regularly discusses the royals, and has now claimed Harry likely wouldn&#8217;t have married Meghan in 2018 had Diana survived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he heard a 36-year-old mature American woman whisper something into his ear along the lines of &#8216;you and I could be a great team&#8217; or &#8216;we could change the world,&#8217; he didn&#8217;t hear Meghan&#8217;s voice, he heard his mother&#8217;s voice. Because Harry was always searching for love and he found it with Meghan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harry has previously drawn parallels between Meghan and his late mother.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2022 Netflix docuseries Harry and Meghan, the prince shared, &#8220;So much of what Meghan is, and how she is, is so similar to my mum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has the same compassion, she has the same empathy, she has the same confidence. She has this warmth about her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is in spite of some family members reportedly struggling to see any resemblance between the two women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former royal staff member has suggested Prince Harry would never have married Meghan Markle if his mom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,1412,7710,519,7711,30370],"class_list":{"0":"post-493264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-princess-diana","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-uk-royal-family","19":"tag-wedding"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115360546567283007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}