Meghan Markle’s pregnancy announcement came exactly 37 years after British newspapers announced that Princess Diana was expecting Prince Harry.
The Duke and Duchess said they were “happy to have their second child” in a Valentine’s Day announcement – on the same day, UK newspapers had the Lady Di pregnancy in the front pages in 1984.
“The secret behind that smile … a baby!” said the front page of the Daily Mail, with a photo of a grinning Diana.
The Daily Express similarly said “the smile that says it all.”
“The September baby for the princess,” the Telegraph reported at the time, adding that “the queen says she is delighted.”
Diana’s pregnancy announcement was actually made late the day before – with the time difference allowing The Post to beat the UK newspapers and run the story on the front page on February 13 of that year.
“Mom is the word for Princess Di – again,” New York’s favorite newspaper headlined the story about the ad.
The Sun, which also celebrated the pregnancy on the front page – although it said Diana wanted a girl – suggested on Monday that the Sussex could have deliberately chosen the date as a “secret head” for Harry’s mother, who died in a car accident in August 1997.
Baby Sussex will be eighth on the throne – behind his older brother Archie, who turns two in May, and their 36-year-old father, Harry, who is sixth in line to the throne. remarked The Telegraph.
The news comes months after Markle spoke of “her almost unbearable pain” after having a miscarriage in July.