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Meghan Markle sharing a touching moment with her son Prince Archie during her Netflix documentary has gone viral on TikTok.
The scene showed Meghan teaching Archie about his grandmother, Princess Diana, as she worked to keep the memory of Prince Harry's mother alive for their child. During the couple's six-part docuseries Harry & Meghan, Harry was seen describing the similarities he felt Meghan had to his late mother.
In the clip Meghan is seen showing Archie a picture of Diana on the wall as she told him she was his grandmother. She said: "Hey grandma. Yeah, that's your grandma Diana." The video has been viewed more than 357,000 times and liked over 33,000 times @thetvandmoviequeen posted it four days ago.
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Meghan and Harry discuss Diana in their docuseries (Getty Images)The caption for the clip says: "Prince Harry talking about how Meghan Markle's mothering is so much like Princess Diana... and shows footage of baby Archie looking at an iconic photo of Diana." Harry said in the Netflix clip: "So much of what Meghan is and how she is... is so similar to my mum. She has the same compassion; she has the same empathy; she has the same confidence; she has this warmth about her."
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Harry then discussed the couple's decision to quit Royal life adding: "I accept that there will be people around the world who fundamentally disagree with what I've done and how I've done it. But I knew that I had to do everything I could to protect my family, especially after what happened to my mum. And I didn't want history to repeat itself."
Meghan then spoke about her suicidal thoughts when pregnant with Archie adding: "I was really ashamed to say it at the time and ashamed to have to admit it to Harry, especially, because I know how much loss he's suffered. But I knew that, if I didn't say it, that I would do it.
Harry described Meghan's likenesses with Diana (POOL/AFP via Getty Images)"And I just didn't want to be alive any more. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. And I remember - I remember how he just cradled me.
"And I was... I went to the institution, and I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help. I said that, 'I've never felt this way before, and I need to go somewhere.' And I was told that I couldn't, that it wouldn't be good for the institution."
Princess Diana died in 1997 when the car she was travelling in crashed in Paris, France, after paparazzi photographers had been pursuing her on motorcycles. She had previously suffered from depression and had thrown herself down the stairs at Sandringham while she was pregnant with Prince William.