Prince Harryspeculates inSparethatPrincess Dianamay have helped bring him andMeghan Markletogether.
Meghan, 41, playfully posed for a selfie with a friend name Violet, and Harry reached out to the mutual pal for her contact info on July 1, 2016 — his late mother’s birthday.
Prince Harrysaid that Meghan messaged him first on Instagram, and they immediately connected over a shared love of Africa, as Harry’s feed was filled with photos from the country (a revelation the couple first made inHarry & Meghan, now streaming on Netflix).
“Eventually, we exchanged phone numbers, and mitigated the conversation over to text, going late into the night,” Harry wrote inSpare, adding that he was “texting like a teenager” through the following day.
“It occurred to me how uncanny, how surreal, how bizarre, that this marathon conversation should have begun on July 1, 2016. My mother’s fifty-fifth birthday,” he added.
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Princess Diana tragically died in a car crash in Paris at age 36 in 1997, andPrince Harryrevealed that he emotionally drove through the same tunnel ten years later.
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“She’s dead, I thought.My God, she’s really gone for good,“he wrote.
The book jacket of Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’.PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Prince Harrycoveredlast week’s issue of PEOPLE, where he opened up about mourning his mother and how he feels her spirit more than ever.
“I struggled for years to accept or even speak about my mother’s death. I was unable to process that she was gone,” the Duke of Sussex tells PEOPLE. “I’m not sure anyone can ever truly have closure when they lose a2parent, or anyone for that matter, especially when that grief may be the only thing left of them.
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The healing process has allowed me to get to a place where I now feel the presence of my mum more than ever before,“Prince Harrysays of Princess Diana. “She’s with me all the time — my guardian angel.”
source: people.com
