Walter Oleksy - Princess Diana 2020: A Quest For Love

Copyright 2019 by Walter Oleksy.

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Contents

T he Princess Diana story lives on. It made front page news again as this was being written in October 2019. Her younger son Prince Harry revealed in an interview that he was still traumatized 22 years after her tragic death in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old.

Harry revealed the emotional toll his mothers death has had on him. He admitted that his grief still was a wound that festers. He told of his anxiety since her death during an 8-week trip he and his wife Meghan Markle took to Angola, Africa in the fall of 2019 to bring new attention to Dianas crusade against life-threatening landmines.

He said a great deal of his anxiety is caused by constant pressure from photographers and the tabloid media. Every single time I hear a click, every camera flash, takes me straight back to the death of my mother. It is a wound that festers. He called the medias hounding of his mother a ruthless campaign. Being followed by photographers himself is the worst reminder of her life, as opposed to being the best.

Harry said that Meghan has been similarly hounded by photographers. She is one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences.

The royal couple, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, sued the London Daily Mail tabloid in October 2019 for publishing a private handwritten letter Meghan wrote to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, in the United States. She sent him the letter shortly after her 2018 marriage which he did not attend because of heart trouble, which may not have been true. Meghan was forced to issue an unprecedented statement confirming that her father would not be at the wedding. Prince Charles took her fathers place and started walking the bride down the aisle. An independent spirit, Meghan left off holding his arm and walked most of the way solo.

Harry and Meghan charged the newspaper with misuse of private and personal information in breach of the United Kingdoms Data Protection Act of 2018. Further, they alleged that entire paragraphs of the letter were edited out so as to manipulate readers and fan the flames of a family feud.

A few days later, Prince Harry also reportedly planned to file a lawsuit against The Sun and the Daily Mirror tabloids and their parent company News Group Newspapers over alleged illegal interception of voicemail messages.

Love or unrequited love, which plagued Princess Diana her whole life, was reportedly behind the feud between Meghan and her father, as their relationship has been said to be strained for years.

In their defense, The Mail denied it erred by publishing the letter and said it did not delete parts of it.

The British press was divided about the merits of the lawsuit. While some newspapers have accused the Prince of being sanctimonious and playing the victim card, others have defended the right of the royal couple to protect their privacy.

Prince Harry called publication of the private letter internationally destructive. He said, I lost my mother, and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces of the tabloid media [ that had pursued his mother ]. He called it ruthless, relentless propaganda. and said, That has escalated over the course of her [ Meghans ] pregnancy [ with their second child .]

Ive seen what happens when someone I love is a [ commodity ] to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person.

I have been a silent witness to her [ Meghans ] private suffering for too long. To stand back and do nothing would be contrary to everything we believe in. There comes a point when the only thing to do is to stand up to this behavior, because it destroys lives. Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isnt acceptable, at any level. We wont and cant believe in a world where there is no accountability for this.

He said, Any proceeds from the lawsuit will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.

Harrys older brother Prince William has similarly chastised the tabloid media and those who knew or worked for his mother and profited by their association with her. He said he felt that his mother was still being exploited for profit when Patrick Jephsons book, Shadows of a Princess, was published in 2000. His mothers former senior aide had betrayed her confidence in the book and profited by making public some of her private life.

Harry echoed his brother by saying, There is a human cost to this relentless propaganda, specifically when it is knowingly false and malicious, and though we have continued to put on a brave face [ as his mother had ], I cannot describe how painful it has been.

William and Kate were no strangers to media invasion of privacy. When they vacationed at a private and secluded chateau in Provence, France, in September 2012, they mistakenly assumed they would have privacy from the paparazzi. But photographers found them and snapped photos of Kate topless while sunbathing, while her husband applied sunscreen on her butt. The royal family sued and a French court ordered the tabloid to pay Kate $120,000 in damages for invasion of privacy.

Harry said in 2019 that his mothers tragic death and the medias hounding of her has affected both his physical and mental health ever since, and he thinks about her every day.

While talking to Britains daily newspaper The Telegraph , Harry said that he needed counseling in his late 20s.

After losing mum at the age of 12, I shut down all my emotions for nearly 20 years and had been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

During those years I took up boxing, because everyone was saying boxing is good for you and its a really good way of letting out aggression. And that really saved me because I was on the verge of punching someone, so being able to punch someone who had pads was certainly easier.

Expressing gratitude towards Prince William, Harry said that his older brother was a huge support to him and kept saying This is not right, this is not normal, you need to talk to someone about all this stuff.