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- Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss everything from racism within the royal family to being interrupted by Charles and William after they left the company.
- Oprah with Meghan and Harry broadcast on CBS in the US on March 7; South Africans will be able to watch the unprecedented interview on Monday March 8 at 7:30 p.m. on M-Net (DStv 101).
- Here, Channel24’s royal editor Bashiera Parker breaks down key moments from Harry and Meghan’s interview.
It has been a dizzying year for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
The couple, who resigned from their royal duties in January 2020 following intense pressure from the UK tabloid press, moved to the US and started a new life with their son, Archie. They have remained silent, for the most part, but controversy continued to follow them.
Now, in an unprecedented move, the couple who have officially cut off From the royal family as of February 22, they have met with American talk show host Oprah Winfrey.
In Oprah with Meghan and Harry, the Duchess of Sussex says: “As an adult who lived a really independent life, going into this construction, which is different from what I think people imagine, is really liberating to be able to have the right and privilege, in some way, to to be able to say, ‘Yes, I’m ready to talk.’
Here, we break down the key moments from Harry and Meghan’s interview. “You’ve said some pretty shocking things here, Oprah says in the unrestricted interview, discussing racism within the royal family, Meghan and Kate’s very royal feud, the Duchess struggling with suicidal thoughts and Harry revealing that his family cut him off financially .
The real reason Archie didn’t get a degree
There has been much speculation as to why Archie did not receive a title from the queen. It was thought that Harry and Meghan turned down a title for the royal born on May 6, 2019. But Meghan said in the interview: “They didn’t want me to be a prince or a princess, not knowing what the gender would be, what would it be? different from protocol, and (he said) he wasn’t going to get security.
“In those months that she was pregnant … we have in tandem the conversation of, she will not be given security, she will not be given a title and also concerns and conversations about how dark her skin might be when she is born.”
Meghan did not share the name of the person within the firm who had those concerns. “I think that would be very detrimental to them,” he said.
Prince Harry, who later joined the interview, added: “That’s a conversation I’m never going to share. I don’t feel comfortable sharing it.”
Meghan on considering suicide:
While Meghan was pregnant with Archie, she says she struggled with suicidal thoughts.
“He just didn’t want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear, real and terrifying constant thought. And I remember how he [Harry] he just cradled me. “
The 39-year-old woman, who is currently expecting her second child, a girl, shared with the talk show host, and is embroiled in a 2018 human resources scandal, which resurfaced days before the interview, said she went to older people in the institution to ask for help, just as Diana did.
“I remember this conversation as if it were yesterday, because they said, my heart goes out to you because I see how bad it is, but there is nothing we can do to protect you because you are not a paid employee of the institution.
“This was not a choice. It was about emails and asking for help, saying very specifically that I am concerned about my mental well-being.”
When asked if she was thinking about harming herself or having suicidal thoughts, she said:
“Yes. This was very, very clear … and very scary.”
Prince Harry later said, regarding the media scandal: “My biggest concern was that history would repeat itself, and I have said it numerous times before, very publicly. And what I was seeing was history being repeat, but perhaps more definitely. ” much more dangerous because then you add race, and you add social media and when I talk about history repeating itself, I’m talking about my mother. “
Harry, on whether he told his family about his plans to move away
“I had three conversations with my grandmother and two with my father before he stopped taking my calls. And then he said, can you put all this in writing?” Prince Harry spoke about his plans, before walking away from the company.
When asked why Prince Charles had stopped taking her calls, she added: “At that time I took matters into my own hands, it was as if I had to do this for my family. This is not a surprise to anyone. It is really sad it’s got to this point, but I have to do something for my own sanity, my wife’s and Archie’s too. “
Meghan, about her feud with Kate Middleton, and a newspaper story that made her cry over the flower girl dresses.
“That was a turning point.”
Meghan said: “The opposite happened. A few days before the wedding, she was upset about something, related to … the flower girl dresses, and it made me cry. And it really hurt my feelings.”
She added: “There was no confrontation and … I don’t think it’s fair for her to go into the details of that because she apologized and I forgave her. What was hard to get over was guilt.” for something that not only didn’t I do, but it happened to me. “
Was he silent or was he silenced?
“The latter. Everyone in my world was given a very clear directive from the moment the world knew that Harry and I were dating forever to say no comment,” Meghan responded to Oprah, before adding that she believed she was being protected by the royal institution. .
“It was only once we got married and it really started to get worse that I came to understand that not only was I not protected, but they were willing to lie to protect other family members. But they weren’t willing to tell the truth. to protect me and my husband. “
When asked if he did not have the support of the powers that be, he said: “There is the family, and then there are the people who run the institution, those are two separate things and it is important to be able to divide that because the queen, for example, it’s always been wonderful to me. “
Would Harry have walked away from the royal family if it hadn’t been for Meghan?
“The answer to your question is no,” said Harry. “I couldn’t have, because I was trapped myself.
“I was trapped, but I didn’t know I was trapped. Like the rest of my family, my father and brother, they are trapped. They cannot leave and I have great compassion for that.”
Meghan, on the accusations that she had manipulated the whole situation.
“Can you imagine how little sense that makes? I gave up my career, my life, I gave up everything because I love him, and our plan was to do this forever.”
On her wedding day, Meghan said it felt like “an out-of-body experience.” “I think we were both really aware, even before that, this was not our day, this was the day that was planned for the world,” he said, revealing that they had been married in secret days before.
“I’ll say I naively analyzed it because I didn’t grow up knowing much about the royal family,” Meghan said.
Oprah with Meghan and Harry will air on M-Net (DStv 101) on Monday at 7:30 p.m..
“Larger than any fairy tale you’ve ever read,” Meghan said during the explosive interview, “I think [Harry] saved us all. Finally he called him. He made a decision that saved my life and saved everything. But you need to want to be saved. “
