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Hugo Vickers said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had “chosen to work outside the system” of the Royal Family and were “more concerned about promoting their own agendas than the interests of the Monarchy itself”. He said Diana’s determination to do things “her own, independent way” had “rubbed off” off on her son and the daughter-in-law she never got to meet.

But he warned the couple this determination would never end well because it wouldn’t bring them “joy”.

Mr Vickers said: “The members of the Royal Family have always been there to serve the Queen rather than to compete with her.

“That is the best – and only – way that the Monarchy can function. But that’s not, in my view, a lesson that Harry and Meghan have been willing to learn.

“Diana liked to complain about her secretaries and courtiers, claiming that they failed to provide the advice she needed. In fact they did, she just didn’t often listen.

“Diana was constantly competing with the Queen, determined to do things her own, independent way, and I fear it has rubbed off on her son and on the daughter-in-law she never got to meet.

“Harry and Meghan, too, have chosen to work outside the system. It did not bring Diana any joy – and it won’t bring Harry any, either.”

Mr Vickers claims Prince Harry found a “woman with echoes” to his beloved mother, who tragically died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

Writing for the Daily Mail, he said: “Could it be rooted in childhood? When he was a boy he saw his mother as a victim. But he was powerless as a young child to do anything.

“In Meghan, he has found a woman with echoes of his late mother, who once said she never got a word of thanks after everything she had done for the Royals.

“And now, when she says she is a victim, Harry jumps to her defence.”

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Prince Harry has always been fiercely protective of his wife and mother to his child, Meghan, and continued scrutiny aimed at his wife was said to be the main reason he decided to step away from the Royal Family with his young family earlier this year.

It comes after an unofficial autobiography ‘Finding Freedom’ about the couple, serialised by The Times and The Sunday Times, claimed Harry and Meghan “liked being in control of their narrative” in the early days of their marriage.

But being told to operate under Buckingham Palace’s umbrella after splitting their household from the Cambridges was “a big disappointment to them”.

The book’s authors, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, write: “As their popularity had grown, so did Harry and Meghan’s difficulty in understanding why so few inside the palace were looking out for their interests.

“They were a major draw for the Royal Family.”

But a spokesman for Harry and Meghan said the couple did not contribute to the book, but he did not deny the content of The Times’s extracts.

He said: “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were not interviewed and did not contribute to Finding Freedom.

“This book is based on the authors’ own experiences as members of the royal press corps and their own independent reporting.”

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