Another day, another criticism for Meghan Markle across the internet—a recent one being the Duchess of Sussex’s Paris Fashion Week appearance, particularly a video shared by Meghan to social media of her driving through the City of Light, feet up on the seat in front of her.

Paris, of course, is the city where Prince Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash on August 31, 1997, when Harry was just 12 years old. According to People, the Duke of Sussex is “hurt and upset” by the backlash Meghan is receiving over that video in a car in Paris, with a source telling the publication that Harry is determined to protect Meghan and their family from “unkind, agenda-driven media narratives,” in the words of the outlet.

While critics say that Meghan was near the Pont d’Alma tunnel—where Diana lost her life at just 36 years old—friends told The Daily Mail that it was a “hell of a stretch” to say that Meghan drove past the location.

“Diana’s death was used as a stick to beat his wife with,” an insider told the outlet, adding that Meghan “did not even pass close to the tunnel. The whole thing is a joke, but not a very funny one for Harry.”

“He was left feeling hurt, but the depressing thing is he wasn’t even that surprised,” the source added. “He was more despondent than shocked.”

The As Ever founder was in Paris on October 4 to attend the Balenciaga show in support of the brand’s newly appointed creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, who has dressed Meghan over the years. The outing marked Meghan’s Paris Fashion Week debut.

While Meghan drove nowhere near the tunnel where the late Princess of Wales’s fatal collision happened, Harry himself has driven through it, as he wrote in his 2023 memoir Spare. While attending the 2007 Rugby World Cup semifinal in France’s capital city, he drove through the tunnel, writing later that “It had been a very bad idea. I’d had plenty of bad ideas in my 23 years, but this one was uniquely ill-conceived.”

For her part, Meghan said in an April episode of “The Jamie Kern Lima Show” podcast of Diana that any comparisons Harry has made of her to his mother is “beautiful,” adding, “I wish I could have met her.”