Prince Harry & Meghan In ‘Near Catastrophic’ Car Chase With Paparazzi – Hollywood Life

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More than twenty-five years after Prince Diana died in a automotive crash after being chased by French paparazzi, Prince Harry says he and his spouse, Meghan Markle, had been in a “near catastrophic car chase” in New York City. A spokesperson for Harry, 38, instructed CNN that he and Meghan, 41, and Meghan’s mom, Doria Ragland, had been chased by paparazzi after attending the Women of Vision Awards, held on the metropolis’s Ziegfeld Ballroom. “Last night, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Ms. Ragland were involved in a near catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi,” reads the assertion.

“This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians, and two NYPD officers,” the assertion continued. Harry and Meghan acknowledged, within the assertion, that “being a public figure comes with a level of interest from the public, it should never come at the cost of anyone’s safety. Dissemination of these images, given the ways in which they were obtained, encourages a highly intrusive practice that is dangerous to all in involved.”

This reported “near catastrophic” chase may have mimicked the heartbreaking tragedy that killed Harry’s mom. Princess Diana died on Aug. 31, 1997, whereas in Paris. The former spouse of King Charles III died alongside together with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul. Paul was driving at excessive speeds to evade the photographers, and he misplaced management of the car within the Pont de l’Alma tunnel. The automotive crashed first right into a wall of the tunnel, then right into a assist pillar. Dodi and Paul had been killed immediately, whereas Diana was nonetheless alive when emergency companies arrived. She was transported to a close-by hospital, the place she succumbed to her accidents, dying on the all-too-young age of 36.

The paparazzi remained on the scene of the accident and photographed Diana in her closing moments, per Today. That left a chilling impact on younger Harry, and it’s a resentment he carries with him to this very day. “I think one of the hardest things to come to terms with is the fact that the people that chased her into the tunnel were the same people that were taking photographs of her while she was still dying on the back seat of the car,” Harry defined within the 2017 BBC Documentary,  Diana, 7 Days.

“[Prince] William and I know that. We’ve been told that numerous times by people that know that was the case,” stated Harry, who blames the paparazzi for the crash. “Those people that caused the accident, instead of helping, were taking photographs of her dying.”

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