Dhaka, March 9 -- That image has reverberated down the years, a ghostly reminder of the princes' traumatic childhood, and it hovered again in the background as Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, spoke to Oprah Winfrey on Sunday night.

While the British tabloids like to cast Meghan in the villainous role of the Duchess of Windsor - the US divorcee who lured away their king in 1936 and lived with him in bitter exile, causing an irreparable family rift - Harry and Meghan seem determined to position her instead as a latter-day Diana, a woman mistreated by her in-laws, more sinned against than sinning.

Harry has often spoken with anguish and bitterness about what happened to Diana all those years ago when she was cast out of the royal family...