Prince Harry compares Meghan to Princess Diana in Netflix documentary

In one key section of the documentary so far, Prince Harry has said that Meghan reminds him very much of his mother Princess Diana in the way she handles herself, saying that she is full of caring and compassion. In another clip, one of the couple’s young children is shown being introduced to a photo of Princess Diana.

Harry said he had been looking for someone who was “willing and capable” of taking on all the baggage of being involved in a relationship with a member of the royal family, and they had to keep their relationship secret from the media at first because he felt like every relationship he had, within weeks media intrusion would “turn upside down” the life of his new partner and their family.

The first episode of the Harry & Meghan documentary, which launched at 8am GMT today, has focused on how the couple met through a mutual friend on Instagram, and how Harry has grown up through a life of what he considers to be press intrusion, including archive footage of his mother confronting photographers on a royal skiing holiday in the 1990s.