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Princess Diana allegedly wanted to move to California with Harry, William

Princess Diana and Meghan Markle may have more in common than we thought.

The late Princess of Wales allegedly had plans to move to California with her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, and pursue a career in Hollywood.

“There were a number of major projects brewing in her consciousness through offers that had been offered to her,” Diana’s former voice coach Stewart Pearce claimed to the Daily Mail Tuesday, the 24th anniversary of her death.

Pearce, who befriended Diana during the years before her untimely death in August 1997, added, “One of the major opportunities that she wanted to create was to start developing documentaries about three charitable interests that would then be assimilated into major movie pictures.

“She was planning on spending a lot of time in Hollywood,” he added. “The point was that Diana was really beginning to explore her creative power.”

Princess Diana and her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, in 1995.
Princess Diana, seen here with sons Prince William and Prince Harry in 1995, reportedly wanted to move to California.Getty Images

Pearce went on to say that Diana had connected with the best in the biz and was bound for greatness.

“Everything she did was signed with the autograph of excellence, meaning she consulted the right people,” he told the outlet. “It was all about the highest echelon of opinions that could be maintained for the greatest project management.

“So I know whomever she employed or worked in liaison with it would have been an excellent standard moving towards the possibility of an award-winning status. There is no doubt. She was all full of the action of co-creativity.”

Princess Diana with Prince William and Prince Harry in 1995.
Diana with her sons in 1995. UK Press via Getty Images

While Diana allegedly had big dreams to go behind the camera, Pearce asserted that she had no intention of becoming a movie star.

“That is something that Diana was not interested in, not at all. You can see how emphatic I am,” he said. “Although she was an aficionado and keen enthusiast about the performing arts, particularly dance, [acting] was not something she saw as being her new creative trajectory.”

Diana married Prince Charles in 1981. Together they welcomed William in 1982 and Harry in 1984. The couple divorced in 1996, and Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005.

Following her divorce, Diana began dating Egyptian film producer Dodi Fayed. The pair were tragically killed in a car accident when Diana was just 36 years old.

Diana’s alleged aspirations to pick up and move her kids to the United States are strikingly similar to the path Harry and his wife, Markle, have taken with their move to Montecito, Calif., following their resignation from the royal family last year.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have since signed several book, movie and podcast deals.