Prince William may be 'jealous' of Harry and Meghan over one privilege, says Fern Britton

Heir to the throne Prince William may well feel a twinge of envy for his younger brother Prince Harry because he can at least have some sliver of privacy, according to Fern Britton.

Appearing on Tim Lihoreau's Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? podcast, the long-time This Morning presenter theorised on William: "He might be jealous that Harry and Meghan and their two children can have the privacy that he can't give his own kids."

She added that while obsessive royal fans pore while every minute detail of Prince George and his siblings' lives, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are in a position where they can say: "No, you only see a little bit of our children. You don't see the rest."

The podcast invites celebrities to list their dream dinner guests, alive or dead, and Fern revealed herself to be completely fascinated with the royal family. Her ideal dinner party lineup included Princess Diana, Meghan Markle, Princess Catherine, Queen Camilla and the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Fern said each of them is admirable in their own way, although she adds that Camilla was once was known as "the laziest woman in England."

But Camilla "really did step up" after His Majesty the King was diagnosed with cancer last year, shouldering a great deal of the burden of public engagements while her husband was undergoing treatment.

Fern added that the current Queen has a very different style from her predecessor: "Camilla doesn't have that sense of history and behaviour that the Queen had.

"I think the old Queen stood by everything she'd learned as a child, and she kept that routine of behaviour."

"Queen Camilla, on the other hand, has had a proper life, a real life, and quite an exciting and at times controversial time. But I think she's much more easy. She's much more easygoing and informal," Fern said.

She admitted a special affection for Diana, the queen who never was: "She wasn't really properly looked after when she was within the royal family," Fern said. "Maybe they just don't understand that.

"And maybe the advisors around the royal family were also not offering the help that they could have given her."

Fern added that she and her husband "clung to each other" on that fateful night in August 1997, when news broke that Diana had died in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris.

"We spent all day that day watching the television and watching it all unfold and just in stunned disbelief," she recalled.

She contrasted the paparazzi frenzy that precipitated Diana's accident - with hordes of royal fans creating huge demand for any pictures of the prodigal princess - with the extreme caution her sons have taken to protect their own families.

"But I think Diana now would be furious that [Harry and Meghan] dumped everything and gone to America," she added. Despite that, Fern says, she feels sure that Meghan would be immediately find of her mother-in-law: "I think she'd go in and give Diana a huge hug and a kiss straight away," she said.