Prince Harry’s warning to Meghan Markle about taking a photo at one location | Royal | News | Express.co.uk
Prince Harry warned Meghan Markle not to take a photo in front of India’s most famous landmark, the Taj Mahal, as he didn’t want people to think his wife was mimicking his mother Princess Diana.
Link copied Bookmark
Prince Harry didn’t want Meghan Markle to take a picture when she visited the Taj Mahal (Image: GETTY)
Meghan Markle was left puzzled by a stern warning from Prince Harry about taking photos.
When their romance first blossomed, Meghan was still acting in the popular TV show Suits and doing charity work worldwide.
This led to Harry giving her a serious caution before she set off on a humanitarian trip to India. In his memoir, Spare, he revealed that he advised her not to pose for a photo at the Taj Mahal, India’s most iconic landmark.
He didn’t want people to think his wife was copying his mother, Princess Diana, who was famously photographed alone at the same spot during her tour of India.
The image became a symbol of her relationship with King Charles.
Read More: Princess Kate to ‘punish’ Harry and Meghan over Omid Scobie’s book, insider says
Princess Diana is known for her iconic picture at the Taj Mahal (Image: GETTY)
Princess Diana took several pictures on the day (Image: GETTY)
Harry revealed that when he warned Meghan about taking a photo in front of the Taj Mahal during her trip to India, she laughed.
He wrote: “Do not take a photo in front of the Taj Mahal. She’d asked why and I’d said:My mum. I’d explained that my mother had posed for a photo there, and it had become iconic, and I didn’t want anyone thinking Meg was trying to mimic my mother.
“Meg had never heard of this photo, and found the whole thing baffling, and I loved her for being baffled.”
Don’t miss… Meghan Markle’s ‘signal’ to King Charles after Omid Scobie’s Endgame revelations [LATEST] Meghan Markle ‘insulted’ by Queen’s offer to make her ‘feel comfortable’ [INSIGHT] Adele says former PM Sir Tony Blair and Iraq war influenced one of her hits [COMMENT]
Prince William and Kate Middleton have posed in front of the Taj Mahal (Image: GETTY)
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have yet to pose in front of the Taj Mahal (Image: GETTY)
Diana was famously photographed alone on a bench in front of the Taj Mahal during her visit to India with Prince Charles in February 1992.
At the time, they were already living separately in the UK, with Diana at Kensington Palace and Charles at Highgrove in Gloucestershire.
They announced their formal separation ten months after the photo was taken.
However, in 2016, Prince William and Kate visited the monument and posed for a photo on the same bench. They sat together for 25 seconds before entering the Taj Mahal for a private tour, marking the end of their trip to India and Bhutan that year.
The bench has now become a major tourist attraction at the Unesco World Heritage site in Agra which has up to 25,000 visitors per day.
An aide said William and Kate only decided the day before visiting that they would sit on the bench and said the decision was not to mirror Diana, even though the bench is associated with her worldwide.
A source at the time said Diana’s visit to the Taj Mahal was “not a particularly strong memory at all” for William, adding: “He has many other memories of his mother that are much more important to him.”
‘*** An AI tool was used to add an extra layer to the editing process for this story.***
Latest videos
Would you like to receive notifications from this site?