Media Hounding
It’s a known fact that both Princess Diana and Meghan have gotten the shorter end of the stick when it came to British media, to say the least. In Meghan’s case, it steered into racist territory and took a dark turn quickly. As for Princess Diana, the paparazzi was known to invade her privacy time and time again. The media’s treatment of Meghan is one of the main reasons she and Harry left their royal roles. According to Harry, there was a “lack of support and lack of understanding” from the media and the royal family. Princess Diana spoke of the same thing, saying, “The most daunting aspect was the media attention…we were told when we got engaged that the media would go quietly, and it didn’t”. She said, “Then it started to focus very much on me, and I seemed to be on the front of a newspaper every single day, which is an isolating experience”. Eventually, this led to Princess Diana’s death as her car crashed when the paparazzi chased her.
Media Hounding
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Meghan and Diana have both been silenced by the monarchy. Coincidentally, these two women have strong voices, too. Once they’ve distanced themselves from the royal family, they took to television to have revealing tell-all interviews. Diana spoke about how she hoped she’d lead by example and speak up about her own experiences. She said, “Maybe there’s a lot of women…who suffer on the same level but in a different environment, who are unable to stand up for themselves because their self-esteem is cut into two”. As for Meghan, she spoke about the relief of telling her own truth: “As an adult who lived a really independent life to then go into this construct that is different than I think what people expect it to be, it’s really liberating to be able to have the right and the privilege in some ways to be able to say, ‘Yes, I’m ready to talk”.
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