Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Hounded By Paparazzi In ‘Near Catastrophic’ Car Chase After Attending NYC Event

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More than twenty-five years aft Prince Diana died successful a car crash aft being chased by French paparazzi, Prince Harry says helium and his wife, Meghan Markle, were successful a “near catastrophic car chase” successful New York City. A spokesperson for Harry, 38, told CNN that helium and Meghan, 41, and Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, were chased by paparazzi aft attending the Women of Vision Awards, held astatine the city’s Ziegfeld Ballroom. “Last night, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Ms. Ragland were progressive successful a adjacent catastrophic car pursuit astatine the hands of a ringing of highly assertive paparazzi,” reads the statement.

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“This relentless pursuit, lasting implicit 2 hours, resulted successful aggregate adjacent collisions involving different drivers connected the road, pedestrians, and 2 NYPD officers,” the connection continued. Harry and Meghan acknowledged, successful the statement, that “being a nationalist fig comes with a level of involvement from the public, it should ne'er travel astatine the outgo of anyone’s safety. Dissemination of these images, fixed the ways successful which they were obtained, encourages a highly intrusive signifier that is unsafe to each successful involved.”

This reported “near catastrophic” pursuit could person mimicked the heartbreaking calamity that killed Harry’s mother. Princess Diana died connected Aug. 31, 1997, portion successful Paris. The erstwhile woman of King Charles III died on with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul. Paul was driving astatine precocious speeds to evade the photographers, and helium mislaid power of the conveyance successful the Pont de l’Alma tunnel. The car crashed archetypal into a partition of the tunnel, past into a enactment pillar. Dodi and Paul were killed instantly, portion Diana was inactive live erstwhile exigency services arrived. She was transported to a adjacent hospital, wherever she succumbed to her injuries, dying astatine the all-too-young property of 36.

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The paparazzi remained astatine the country of the mishap and photographed Diana successful her last moments, per Today. That near a chilling effect connected young Harry, and it’s a resentment he carries with him to this precise day. “I deliberation 1 of the hardest things to travel to presumption with is the information that the radical that chased her into the passageway were the aforesaid radical that were taking photographs of her portion she was inactive dying connected the backmost spot of the car,” Harry explained successful the 2017 BBC Documentary,  Diana, 7 Days.

“[Prince] William and I cognize that. We’ve been told that galore times by radical that cognize that was the case,” said Harry, who blames the paparazzi for the crash. “Those radical that caused the accident, alternatively of helping, were taking photographs of her dying.”

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