When you ask about the future of the monarchy, I think we have in Kate and William absolutely brilliant, well-qualified, and well-trained people positioned as future king and queen. For them, it’s like Diana’s son is continuing the campaign to disrupt Charles’ future reign, and the “War of the Wales” continues. Harry has become a disruptive force in the family. It’s still a source of great pain to them they were also completely knocked for six when they decided to do the Oprah interview, and now Harry’s doing a book. They’re still reeling and just baffled why it seemed to go wrong so quickly.
Meghan got angry so fast, and that’s what’s rocked the family. Her problem was entirely different-her problem was her husband wasn’t in love with her and that’s what sent her off into sort of an abyss, and also made her really angry. She did everything that was required of her. And did try and did succeed at being the most amazing Princess of Wales. They had it all over again, and, in a way that was almost more unmanageable because Diana was a child, really, when she married. is a celebrity, a woman who has a lot of her own charisma and a strong will of her own, a strong sense of independence, who is not going to be subservient to this concept of hierarchy and monarchy.
The great and fascinating thing about this family saga, which is why it makes such interesting material, is fate steps in and introduces Meghan to Harry, and all of the sudden they have it all over again. We had the glory years, which I write about: the 2011 period of the Queen going to Ireland, Harry serving in the Army-all of it seemed as if it were righting itself. For 20 years they’d been chugging along, trying to make the point that everyone was now in line. MC: You write in the book “Ever since the death of Diana in 1997, the Queen had made it clear to all those who advised her that it could never happen again-the it being Diana’s explosive celebrity…The refrain most repeated at the pinnacle of the Palace was ‘we don’t want another Diana.’” What has the family done to prevent another “Diana,” as you say?