Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, stunned the globe with his recent 30-minute interview with the BBC.
Even while HELLO! stated that King Charles was "frustrated and upset," royal biographer Ingrid Seward, who was very close to Princess Diana until her sudden death in 1997, believes the departed Princess of Wales would have been "proud."
On the A Right Royal Podcast, Ingrid discussed Diana's horrific Panorama interview, which took place two years before her death, and her one regret 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 novelist acknowledged in the episode.
Ingrid went on, "She remarked, 'I got thousands of emails about other people who suffered from anorexia and bulimia'. So that's how she twisted things."
"She stated, 'The only thing I felt bad about was talking about James Hewitt.'" She had mentioned, if you recall, that she was or had been in love with him, and she felt sorry for William and Harry saying that," she continued.
"She, at that moment, thought it was a successful interview," Ingrid recounted.
Ingrid speculated on how Diana might have responded to her younger son's decision, which comes six years after his uncle, Prince Andrew, gave a fairly contentious interview to Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight. "I think she might have been proud, 'I'm glad you said what you thought.'"
"I believe she would have been very proud of him for stepping out and stating what he believed, since that is what she liked. She preferred to speak precisely what she believed and then deal with the repercussions later, which is exactly what happened to her," she said.
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