Meghan Markle’s pregnancy announcement came exactly 37 years after British newspapers announced that Princess Diana was expecting Prince Harry.
The Duke and Duchess said they were “overwhelmed with joy that they would be expecting their second child” in an announcement on Valentine’s Day. That same day, Lady Di’s pregnancy in 1984 splashed across their front pages.
“Secret behind that smile … a baby!” on the front page of the Daily Mail, with a photo of a grinning Diana.
The Daily Express also said the ‘smile that says it all’.
“September baby for princess”, the Telegraph reported at the time, adding that “the queen says she is delighted.”
Diana’s pregnancy announcement was actually made late the day before – with the time difference that enabled The Post to beat British newspapers and run the story on its front page on 13 February that year.
“Mom is the word for Princess Di – again,” New York’s favorite newspaper wrote his story about the announcement.
The Sun, which also celebrated the pregnancy on its front page – although she said Diana wanted a girl, suggested on Monday that the Sussex might consider the date as a ‘secret nod’ to Harry’s mother, who in August died in a car accident, chose 1997.
Baby Sussex is in eighth place in the queue – behind big brother Archie, who turns two in May, and their 36-year-old father Harry, who is sixth in the queue, The Telegraph noted.
The news comes months after Markle spoke of her “almost unbearable sadness” after suffering a miscarriage in July.