Princess Diana said she “looked forward to using her own passport” in comments reminiscent of Meghan Markle’s about having to hand over her travel documents.
The Princess of Wales liked to send letters to her friends and one of them sheds light on an aspect of Meghan and Prince Harry’s Oprah Winfrey interview.
Diana wrote to fashion designer Roberto Devorik during the tale end of her marriage to Prince Charles to say she was looking forward to her freedom.
And she also expressed a desire to return to using “her own passport,” her confidante told the official U.K. police investigation into her death, codenamed Operation Paget.
Quoted in the publicly available Paget report, Devorik told police: “She never compromised herself in her letters. She would not discuss private matters in her letters. She did mention in one letter she sent me the fact that she will become free and looked forward to using her own passport.”
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Meghan Markle’s Passport Comments Echo Princess Diana’s Longing for Own ID
BY JACK ROYSTON ON 8/18/21 AT 8:31 AM EDT
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Princess Diana said she “looked forward to using her own passport” in comments reminiscent of Meghan Markle’s about having to hand over her travel documents.
The Princess of Wales liked to send letters to her friends and one of them sheds light on an aspect of Meghan and Prince Harry’s Oprah Winfrey interview.
And she also expressed a desire to return to using “her own passport,” her confidante told the official U.K. police investigation into her death, codenamed Operation Paget.
Quoted in the publicly available Paget report, Devorik told police: “She never compromised herself in her letters. She would not discuss private matters in her letters. She did mention in one letter she sent me the fact that she will become free and looked forward to using her own passport.”
Meghan also spoke of feeling trapped within the royal family and said she had to hand over her documents on becoming royal.
The duchess told Oprah: “I mean, you have to understand, as well, when I joined that family, that was the last time, until we came here, that I saw my passport, my driver’s licence, my keys. All that gets turned over. I didn’t see any of that any more.”
Meghan’s comments were challenged in the British press with news stories outlining numerous trips abroad during her two years as a royal.
Among them were official visits, including to a 2019 royal tour of Southern Africa, a 2018 tour of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, and shorter trips to the Republic of Ireland and Morocco.
