Meghan Markle
Meghan Markle is playing with fire just like Princess Diana, claims Richard Kay. Pictured: Markle presents the Celebrating Excellence Award to Nathan Forster, a former soldier of the Army's Parachute Regiment, at the Endeavour Fund awards at Drapers' Hall on February 7, 2019 in London, England. Getty Images/Tolga Akmen-WPA Pool

Meghan Markle may be playing with fire just like Princess Diana for allowing her friends to speak for her.

Richard Kay, a royal expert and editor at large for Daily Mail, claimed that what the Duchess of Sussex may have been feeling was similar to what the late Princess of Wales felt years ago.

Princess Diana became so alienated from her royal in-laws that she thought she had no alternative but to take matters into her own hands. However, Kay noted that fact that Princess Diana was married to the heir to the throne, while Markle will never become a queen.

Kay added that Markle actually receives support and love from Prince Harry’s side of the family. “But by bypassing the official medial operatives at the palace for a cack-handed freelance operation involving friends, is certainly a tactic straight out of the Diana playbook. Unlike Meghan – and despite her friends’ claims that since her marriage she’s suffered ‘global bullying’ – Diana was rarely out of the trash media limelight,” he wrote.

Kay noted that fact that sometimes Princess Diana went a little too far by stretching the loyalties of those closest to her. For instance, her controversial interview with Panorama in 1995 led to a string of unforeseen and devastating consequences.

The interview resulted in Princess Diana losing her private secretary and press secretary. It also triggered Queen Elizabeth II to get involved by forcing Prince Charles and Princess Diana to get on with their divorce.

At one point, Princess Diana’s friends also encouraged her to give an interview about her unhappy marriage to Prince Charles. Andrew Morton released the book “Diana: Her True Story,” and Princess Diana avoided all contact from her friends following the fall-out.

“No one is suggesting Meghan’s situation is anything like what Diana found herself in the early 1990s, but, at the very least, using an intimate circle to disseminate such personal views as Meghan’s friends have, does suggest something is wrong at the palace,” Kay said.

Five of Markle’s friends denied some of the rumors surrounding the Duchess of Sussex during an interview with People this week.

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