Princess Diana would have been "proud" of Prince Harry speaking to the BBC, according to a royal expert. The Duke of Sussex made headlines last week after he gave a bombshell interview to the broadcaster shortly after he lost his High Court appeal regarding his downgraded security in the UK.

Harry's claims caused sensation as the Duke spoke about his relationship with the Royal Family and the King's health, saying that he doesn't know how much time he has left. Now, royal author Ingrid Seward, who's met the late Princess of Wales in the past, spoke about her possible reaction to her son's interview following her own explosive interview with the BBC back in 1995.

Ms Seward told Hello! magazine's A Right Royal Podcast: "I saw her quite shortly after that [the BBC's Panorama interview], so obviously I asked her, and she said, 'No, I don't regret any of it.'

"She said, 'I got thousands of letters about other people who suffered from anorexia and bulimia'. So that's how she twisted it.

"She said, ‘The only thing I felt a bit bad about was talking about James Hewitt.’ She had said, if you remember, that she was in love with him, or had been in love with him, and she felt bad for William and Harry saying that.

"She, at that moment, thought it was a successful interview."

Asked about what Diana would have thought about her son's interview, she said: "I think she might have been proud, ‘I'm glad you said what you thought.'

"I think she would, I’m guessing, that she might have been quite proud of him for speaking up and saying what he thought, because that’s what she liked.

"She liked to say exactly what she thought and then deal with the consequences afterwards, which is, of course, what happened to her."