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- Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Doria Ragland have been chased by paparazzi on Tuesday in New York.
- His mom, Princess Diana, died following a automotive crash in 1997 after being chased by paparazzi.
- Harry has repeatedly voiced his fears of historical past repeating itself with Meghan.
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, have been in a "near-catastrophic" automotive chase involving a "ring of extremely aggressive paparazzi" in New York Metropolis on Tuesday evening, in line with a number of reports.
The state of affairs appeared eerily just like Princess Diana's loss of life following a automotive crash in Paris, France, whereas being chased by paparazzi.
Within the early hours of August 31, 1997, Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, have been in a black Mercedes-Benz when their driver tried to outrun paparazzi and hit a pillar within the Pont de l'Alma tunnel. The driving force, Henri Paul, and Fayed died on the scene, and Diana later died in hospital.
Within the 2017 documentary "Diana, 7 Days," Harry spoke out towards the photographers who he stated triggered the crash that killed his mom, and who continued taking footage of her as she lay injured.
"One of many hardest issues to come back to phrases with is the truth that the individuals who chased her into the tunnel have been the identical people who have been taking images of her whereas she was nonetheless dying on the again seat of the automotive," he stated. "William and I do know that, we’ve got been instructed that quite a few instances by individuals who know that was the case. She had fairly a extreme head harm however was nonetheless very a lot alive on the again seat and people who triggered the accident, as an alternative of serving to, have been taking images of her dying. After which these images made their means again to information desks on this nation."
Harry has repeatedly voiced considerations about historical past repeating itself
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In 2016, whereas Harry and Meghan have been courting, Harry's communications secretary launched an announcement condemning "the makes an attempt of reporters and photographers to achieve unlawful entry to her residence and the calls to police that adopted," saying that Harry was "frightened about Ms. Markle's security."
In his 2021 Apple+ TV collection "The Me You Can't See," Harry additionally spoke about fearing for Meghan's security whereas they have been working royals.
"My largest remorse is just not making extra of a stance earlier on in my relationship with my spouse and calling out the racism once I did," Harry stated. "Historical past was repeating itself. My mom was chased to her loss of life whereas she was in a relationship with somebody that wasn't white and now look what's occurred. You need to speak about historical past repeating itself, they're not going to cease till she dies."
In his 2023 memoir "Spare," Harry wrote that whereas in Paris for the 2007 Rugby World Cup semifinal, he requested his driver to take him by way of the tunnel the place Diana was killed in an try to search out closure.
"I'd at all times imagined the tunnel as some treacherous passageway, inherently harmful, but it surely was only a quick, easy, no-frills tunnel," he wrote. "No motive anybody ought to ever die inside it."