Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s recent interview with Oprah Winfrey has caused a stir around the world over the allegations the couple made against the British royal family and why they abandoned life.
In the interview, Markle takes a barrier-free approach and touches on topics ranging from race to mental health. The two-hour interview is the biggest royal account since Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, detailed her crumbling marriage to her father, Prince Charles, in 1995.
Oprah Winfrey carefully framed the legitimacy of the interview early on, asking Meghan to confirm that the questions had not been provided in advance, that no topic was off limits, and that the couple was not compensated.
Winfrey carefully framed the legitimacy of the interview early on, asking Meghan to confirm that the questions had not been provided in advance, that no topic was off-limits, and that the couple was not compensated. CBS It reportedly paid Winfrey’s production company Harpo up to $ 9 million to stream it and, according to Nielsen’s early estimates, it was rewarded with 17 million viewers, an unusually large audience amid multiple choices.
Meghan touched on various topics in the interview, but while it aired, she texted Oprah.
“Well, I haven’t really talked to them since the interview because we’re in different time zones,” Oprah said. CBS This morning after the interview. “I got a text message from Meghan yesterday saying, ‘How are you doing?’ Because I was putting Archie to bed waiting for the West Coast feeding and I had no idea what was happening on the East Coast. “
Oprah says she replied, ‘Me neither, from what I can tell it’s going well, I know it’s airing,’ “adding that she would likely have a conversation with the couple about the special later, she reports. Cosmopolitan.
Markle in the interview accused the British royal family of worrying about how dark their son’s skin would be. Markle, who is African American, says her husband, Prince Harry, revealed his family’s concerns about Archie’s skin tone, as well as the security he would be entitled to, prior to his birth on May 6, 2019.
“In those months when she was pregnant … we have on par with 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 told her told interviewer Oprah Winfrey.
The allegation was potentially one of the most damaging of a two-hour interview in which Meghan also said she had been denied help during a mental health crisis, speaking frankly about her suicidal thoughts while pregnant with Archie.
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