Meghan Markle eliminates the specter of Lady Di at Buckingham Palace

London – For an entire generation of Britons, Diana of Wales is little more than a photo, a pop icon or, if anything, the weird actress in a TV series. This generation is shocked today by the revelations of Meghan Markle, who, however, sounds familiar to many.

In the recent turbulent history of the House of Windsors, few events have caused more reputational problems than the 1995 Lady Di interview with the BBC.

In it, he opened the channel to admit that there are “three people” in his marriage (alluding to Camilla Parker Bowles) and to confess that he was hurt in despair.

First, if that conversation showed anything, it was the freezing of Buckingham Palace, the inability to develop “normal” emotional relationships within it.

From this point of view, some excerpts from Meghan’s words this Sunday on American television seem to be a copy of those that Lady Di was talking about 26 years ago.

“I didn’t want to go on living, and it was a very clear, real, constant thought that was scary,” the Duchess of Sussex told Oprah Winfrey, who attended her revelations with her mouth open.

“You have so much pain inside that you try to hurt yourself from the outside, because you want help, but you are asking for the wrong help,” Diana admitted to journalist Martin Bashir in 1995.

Meghan: “I went to one of the highest people to seek help. (But) they told me that I can’t, that it wouldn’t be good for the institution “.

Diana: “I was crying for help, but I was giving the wrong signals, and people were using my bulimia as an excuse: they decided that this was my problem, that I was unstable.”

Lady Di, who was to die less than two years later in a Paris accident while fleeing the paparazzi with her boyfriend Dodi al Fayed, protested that the postpartum depression she suffered after giving birth to Guillermo allowed everyone to place a “wonderful label”: unstable and unbalanced.

This perception, she said at the time, was shared even by her husband, Prince Charles.

And here, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Enrique and Meghan, mark the true differentiating point between two floors that sometimes look like drops of water.

Because in the ordeal of the old American actress appears on this occasion a husband who, warned of so much suffering, manages to save his wife the fate of his mother.

“I think he saved us all. Eventually, she made the decision to find a way out for us and (her son) Archie, “Meghan remarked, before addressing Harry to say,” You’ve made a decision that will definitely make me saved his life. And everyone’s. “

If there was any doubt in this search for contrast, Enrique himself admits that he was very disappointed with his father “because he went through something similar”.

Few will now be surprised to learn that Buckingham is a palace of ice. Diana from Wales explained it before she died and even those who were not born then had many doubts.

Courtiers and the pro-Queen Elizabeth II press claim that Meghan Markle could not ignore the restrictions involved in entering the company (as the Royal House in Britain is known) when she decided to marry the prince.

And even less with the precedent set by Diana, who, after all, was much more popular and loved than Meghan.

But the reality is that the palace is facing an earthquake again, in conditions perhaps more precarious than in 1995.

Prince Felipe, the queen’s husband and her great emotional pillar, is also admitted to be about a hundred years old, Elizabeth II herself, although in good health, is already 94 years old, and her son and heir, Carlos, doesn’t seem to have gained much popularity since his then-wife rocked the foundations of Buckingham.