Meghan Markle isn’t getting the Princess Diana treatment

Published March 9, 2021 10:15pm ET



If Princess Diana had retained her security detail provided by the palace, she would likely be alive today. Instead, her bodyguard, employed by her boyfriend’s father, Mohamed al Fayed, allowed her to ride without a seat belt in a car driven by a man intoxicated at more than 3 times the legal limit.

Royal security would have never allowed Diana into the situation that ultimately killed her, but given her paranoia that her palace-provided detail was spying on her for the Firm, the princess refused royal protection officers after her divorce from Prince Charles.

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