Why life in the Royal Family is harder for Meghan than Diana

Princess Diana copped her fair share of criticism, but Meghan Markle’s experience as a royal is already much more difficult.

Meghan Markle will find life in the royal family harder than Princess Diana, a royal expert has claimed.

Appearing on Yahoo’s The Royal Box, former ITV royal editor Tim Ewart claims that the Duchess of Sussex is under even more scrutiny now that members of the public are constantly filming or taking photos of the royals, reports The Sun.

Prince Harry and Meghan are trying to enforce more privacy in their lives. Picture: Michael Bradley/AFP

“When it was Diana, there were photographers, there were camera men, people weren’t using smart phones,” Ewart said.

“Now every single person that a member of the Royal Family meets has a smart phone up. Every single word that is said, doesn’t matter where the TV cameras are, doesn’t matter where the snappers, the photographers, they can be anywhere.”

The royal expert warned that “nothing is private anymore” and that Prince Harry failed to “explain just how intense” life as a Royal can be.

Commenting on the intense public scrutiny, Ewart acknowledged that “every single expression, movement, comment” has the potential to be front page news.

Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1986. Picture: John Shelley Collection/Avalon/Getty Images

Acknowledging that Meghan was a “well-known actress” before she married Prince Harry, the expert said: “But she wasn’t hunted by the paparazzi.”

Likening the monarchy to a “cauldron”, ITV’s former Royal editor added: “This Royal Family is beyond anything she could ever have expected and it will be very, very difficult for Harry, as it was with William and Kate, to explain just how intense that is.”

Last week, unearthed footage from a royal family fan account showed Meghan confessing to Pharrell “they don’t make it easy” as she opened up about her struggles with public life at The Lion King premiere.

Meanwhile, an insider has also claimed that Meghan has “struggled with the intensity of the spotlight” since marrying into the Royal Family as it is “a different level” to her Suits fame.

This story originally appeared in The Sun and is republished here with permission