Prince Harry said Princess Diana and his fiancee Meghan Markle would have been ‘best friends’ as he paid a poignant tribute to his mother .
Harry said the pair would be as ‘thick as thieves’ during his first official interview with Miss Markle, after their engagement announcement today.
The Prince also revealed how his Suits star girlfriend said ‘yes’ immediately when he got down on one knee.
Prince Harry said that his new fiancee Meghan Markle and his mother Princess Diana (right, at the Serpentine Gallery in London, 1994) would have been ‘best friends’
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle appeared at a photocall at London’s Kensington Palace today
The couple were roasting chicken on a ‘cosy night’ in, at Nottingham Cottage, Kensington Palace, a few weeks ago when he popped the question.
When asked by BBC host Mishal Husain, if Princess Diana would have got on well with her new daughter in law, Harry, 33, did not hesitate.
He said: ‘Oh they’d be thick as thieves, without question, I think she would be over the moon, jumping up and down, you know so excited for me, but then, as I said, would have probably been best friends – best friends with Meghan.
‘So no it’s – you know it is days like – days like today when – when I really miss having her around and miss being able to share the happy news.
‘But you know with the ring and with everything else that’s going on I’m sure she’s.’
Miss Markle, 36, added: ‘She’s with us.’
Before Prince Harry said: ‘I’m sure she’s with us yeah, you know, jumping up and down somewhere else.’
Prince Harry (left, with his brother Prince William and mother in 1995) said it was on special occasions that he ‘really missed’ his mother (right, Princess Diana in 1990)
Miss Markle’s sparkling engagement ring included one stone from Botswana and two diamonds from Princess Diana’s personal collection
Miss Markle’s sparkling engagement ring included one stone from Botswana, where she recently holidayed with the Prince, and two diamonds from Diana’s personal collection.
Harry revealed he mounted the stones on yellow gold because it was his mother’s ‘favourite’.
Miss Markle said it was ‘incredibly special’ to have Diana’s jewels on her ring and described the band as ‘perfect’.
Prince Harry and Miss Markle’s 16-month whirlwind romance blossomed when they met through mutual friends
‘I think everything about Harry’s thoughtfulness is – and the inclusion of that and obviously not being able to meet his mom it’s so important to me to – to know that she’s a part of this with us’, she said.
‘And I think in being able to meet his aunts and – and also like Julia and just different people who were so important to his mom, I’m able to, in some way, know a part of her through them and of course through him.
‘And it’s – it’s incredibly special. And you know to be able to have this which sort of links where you come from and Botswana which is important to us and it’s – it’s perfect. ‘