Speaking in the first episode of Netflix’s Harry and Meghan, Prince Harry said: “So much of what Meghan is and how she is, is so similar to my mum.”

Meghan Markle and the late Princess of Wales are said to share many similar attributes, especially in the eyes of Prince Harry.

As well as the struggles they faced joining the Royal Family and in their love of fashion, Meghan also poses a future of the joys and struggles of bringing up two young children – much like Princess Diana.

Diana often displayed that she was a dedicated and loving mother, with one public interaction portrayed how well-equipped she was in helping fellow mothers and children in need.

Speaking on the Storia Podcast, Carrie Lloyd – whose father Tony was Princess Diana’s charity advisor and director of The Leprosy Mission – spoke of a story of the royal, who died aged 36 in 1997, wanting to and help a fellow mother on a flight.

Recalling the story, which she recited from her late father, Ms Lloyd said: “There was someone just behind the curtain with a baby crying and screaming, and you could tell this mother was just on her own.

“Diana is kind of looking through the crack in the window and she turns to Ken [Wharfe, her bodyguard] and says ‘Please, can I just go back there and go and help her?’, and he said, ‘No, mam, you really can’t, you really cannot go through. No one knows you’re on this flight’.

“She [then] turns to my dad and she goes, ‘What do you think Tony?”

She then adds that her father couldn’t see a problem with the royal’s request, to which responds by standing up and walking through the curtain.