Prince Harry is fulfilling his mother’s legacy by writing a memoir, according to Princess Diana’s voice coach.
Stewart Pearce, a close confidant of Diana in her final years, says she would have ‘absolutely’ gone on to write her own book if her life hadn’t been cut short when she died in a crash in 1997.
It was revealed earlier this month that the Duke of Sussex is writing an ‘intimate and heartfelt’ memoir about his life in the Royal Family.
Pearce, 68 said Harry shares similar traits to his mother in his desire for freedom and an ‘impetuosity’ that often comes at the expense of his own personal safety.
Pearce told The Sun: ‘Diana’s life and purpose were committed to complete transparency, and so I’m sure she would have written her autobiography full of all the many things she learned from her experiences within the Royal Family, and beyond.
‘Diana loved to write personal correspondence, which for her added the personal touch, added love to the people she cared for.’
Pearce drew comparisons between Harry’s bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview – in which he accused his family of racism and neglect – with Diana’s now infamous sit down with Martin Bashir.
The 1995 chat saw her tell the world ‘there were three of us in this marriage,’ referring to her husband’s affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.
Pearce said Diana was keen to speak her truth after living for 14 years under the Firm’s ‘never complain, never explain’ mantra, just like Harry is now.
He said she told him she wanted to ‘fight to the end because I believe I have a role to fulfill’ and refused to go quietly during the Bashir interview.
Pearce, who gave Diana private voice and presence lessons in the two years before her death, said she was ‘absolutely and unquestionably’ ready to right a memoir.
He said Harry, 36, inherited his mother’s bravery in that he’s fully ready to face the consequences of telling his own story.
The duke’s book, to be released late next year, will share the ‘definitive account’ of his ‘experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons’, publisher Penguin Random House said.
Pearce said Diana, like Harry, wanted senior royals to have an understanding of people’s emotional insecurities and distress and to learn some compassion.
Just like her son, she would only have committed to a full tell all when the time was right and when she felt the greatest impact could be made for charity.
Pearce said: ‘I feel that what Diana was doing was providing transparency about what she was experiencing at that time, which shocked the world, you know there were three people in this marriage, and the changes that she was trying to bring to monarchy, which indeed is something that she really did both when she was alive and also now when she is in death.
‘What Harry is doing is going on a stage further and not just revealing what took place, but providing causative information about why treachery took place.’
Prince Harry, who will donate the proceeds of his book to charity, said he was ‘excited for people to read a firsthand account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful’.
He reportedly began writing it last year, after he quit as a senior royal, and is said to have joined forces with ghostwriter JR Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Announcing the news Harry said: ‘I’m writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become.
‘I’ve worn many hats over the years, both literally and figuratively, and my hope is that in telling my story — the highs and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned — I can help show that no matter where we come from, we have more in common than we think.’
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