Princess Diana would not have been a fan of Meghan Markle: pal Tina Brown

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the Daily Beast Thursday, declaring: “Diana would have been very, very protective of Harry and I believe very anxious about this direction they [he and Meghan] have taken.”The magazine queen, 68 — who also penned the best-selling biography “The Diana Chronicles” — added: “I think she would have felt Meghan was steering Harry in a direction that was not good.

I don’t think Diana would have been the great fan of Meghan that Meghan herself might perhaps imagine.”Indeed, there have been dozens of reports that Meghan, 41, is modeling herself on her late mother-in-law, copying her outfits, wearing her jewelry and fashioning herself as a similarly free-spirited humanitarian.

Many claim iconoclastic Diana would have loved Meghan for throwing out the royal rulebook — but not so, said Brown. Although Diana, like Meghan, did have a strained relationship with the royal family, Brown said she was “never anti-monarchy.”“She never questioned that Prince William would be king.

It was her most ardent desire he would become king. She was never anti-monarchy in that regard,” Brown explained. “She had differences with the royal family — her biggest difference was that her husband wasn’t in love with her, he was in love with someone else.