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 Princess Diana, who became one of the most photographed women on
the planet after she married into the British royal family, died
in a car crash in 1997 after being followed through the streets
of Paris by photographers.
Earlier this month Harry's wife, Meghan Markle, began legal
action against a newspaper in response to what the couple
described as "bullying" by some sections of the British media.
At the time, Harry said the treatment of Markle was reminiscent
of their approach to his mother.
"Everything that she went through and what happened to her is
incredibly raw every single day and that is not being me being
paranoid. That is just me not wanting a repeat of the past,"
Harry told ITV in an interview that was filmed during a tour of
Africa earlier this month and aired on Sunday.
"Part of this job ... means putting on a brave face and turning
a cheek to a lot of this stuff," he said. "All we need to do is
focus on being real, and focus on being the people that we are
and standing up for what we believe in. I will not be bullied
into playing a game that killed my mum."
Harry is also suing the publishers of Rupert Murdoch's Sun
newspaper and the Daily Mirror over allegations of
phone-hacking.
Describing what happened to his mother as "a wound that
festers," Harry said: "Every single time I see a camera, every
single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it
takes me straight back."
Asked about newspaper reports of a rift with his older brother,
William, Harry said, "inevitably stuff happens" as part of the
role and the pressure the family is under.
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"We will always be brothers. We are certainly on different paths at
the moment, but I will always be there for him as I know he will
always be there for me," he said. "As brothers you have good days
you have bad days."
Markle's proceedings against the Mail on Sunday newspaper are over
the publication of a private letter that her lawyers said was
"unlawful" and part of a "campaign by this media group to publish
false and deliberately derogatory stories about her."
Asked during an interview for the same ITV documentary about how she
had found the last year, the American former actress said it had
been hard, and that she "didn't get it" when British friends had
warned her about tabloid newspapers when she had first met Harry.
"I never thought that this would be easy, but I thought it would be
fair, and that is the part that is really hard to reconcile," Markle
said.
"When people are saying things that are just untrue and they have
been told they are untrue, but they are allowed to still say them, I
don’t know anybody in the world that would feel like that is OK, and
that is different from just scrutiny."
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)
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