While Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are keen on using their influence for the greater good some of their actions have lost them public favour of late. The Duchess of Sussex, 38, guest-edited the September issue of British Vogue in which she championed trailblazing women and causes close to her heart. Prince Harry also had a spot in the special issue which featured an interview he conducted with primatologist Dr Jane Goodall.

In the interview, Prince Harry urged the public to take action against climate change but the Duke has faced criticism after he and Meghan took several private jets abroad this summer.

Jumping on a jet again, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will continue Princess Diana’s charitable legacy when they visit Africa with baby Archie Harrison this autumn.

According to one royal commentator, the Duchess could learn a lot from her late mother-in-law’s work and life.

Speaking in a 60 Minutes Royal Family special Princess Diana’s former secretary Patrick Jephson said: “Princess Diana of course was a lot younger throughout her royal career than Meghan is now.

“But what I noticed with her is that she had a very shrewd instinct about what looked good and what didn’t.

“She had an extraordinary understanding that for her to be successful as a princess she had to be very disciplined – she had to do her own preparation work, she had to be very professional in how she ran her public life but she also had to understand what people expected and she knew that most of what royal people do is visual.”

Mr Jephson suggested hat the American Duchess should take a leaf out of both Diana and the Queen’s books when it comes to winning over the British public.

He said: “I would say she needs to look at two legacies – the legacy of the Queen and I think she should study, really study her mother-in-law’s life, her work, how she worked, how she chose her causes, why they worked, why things that she did resonate with ordinary British people.

According to Mr Jephson one of the challenges Meghan faces stems from the fact she is not British.

He said: “Meghan isn’t and never has been an ordinary British person so part of her challenge is to work out what it feels like, what it is to be an ordinary British person, not to be one but to understand how best to use her extraordinary influence and high profile.”

Early on in the interview, Mr Jephson describes Meghan as a “breath of fresh air” who is “undeniably good news for the royal family.”

However, the royal commentator also warns that “breathes of fresh air” have not always worked out within the British monarchy.

He said: “Your older viewers will remember Princess Diana being a breath of fresh air and Sarah Ferguson being one – so many breaths of fresh air that haven’t always worked and indeed that presupposes that the Royal Family and the whole royal institution is going to respond positively to breaths of fresh air.

“They get lots of fresh air at their estate in Scotland – there’s all the fresh air in the world up there.”

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry turned down the Queen’s invitation to join her at Balmoral this summer, reportedly on the grounds that baby Archie was still young.

Meghan left Archie and Prince Harry at home in Windsor at the weekend when she flew off to New York to watch her pal Serena Williams play in the US Open tennis final.

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