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Forbes was announced Friday by research companies. YouGov in the UK the results of a poll by Prince Harry that showed that the popularity of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan in the UK has never been lower.
Harry is said to rate the Duke of Sussex positively at 45 percent. surveyed. His popularity in the country fell by as much as 15 percentage points after an extremely open interview. Meanwhile, only three out of ten people rated Markle positively.
This decline in public support for the royal couple is related to the scandalous interview the couple gave Harry and Meghan on March 7 to American television host O. Winfrey.
Interestingly, after interviews with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, neither Queen Elizabeth II nor Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton gained popularity in Britain.
Catherine Middleton, Prince William, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle / Photo by Scanpix.
The most open interview of this time
The two-hour interview with the queen of American television, titled O. Winfrey, is the most open and comprehensive account of the internal affairs of the royal family since a 1995 interview by Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, in the one that related the collapse of the marriage with his father. , heir to the throne, Prince Charles.
In an interview broadcast last Sunday, Markle spoke not only about the adjustment in the royal family, but also about the psychological problems that Buckingham Palace allegedly did not respond to. The world’s attention was drawn to the Duchess of Sussex’s account of the racism she experienced.
Meghan said a member of the royal family did not hesitate to ask how dark her son Archie’s skin would be. A little later, O. Infin CBS pointed out that the racist question was not asked by the Queen and not by her husband, Prince Philip, but it could still harm the monarch.
Meanwhile, Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson Harry lamented in an interview the family’s reaction to his decision to retire from real life. Harry said the couple, who had very lucrative contracts with Netflix and other streaming service platforms, had to find ways to earn money because “my family literally became financially isolated from me.”
“I’m sad about what happened, but … we did everything we could to be successful,” he said at the end of the interview.
Photo of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle / Scanpix
Prior to the appearance of this interview, it was reported that Buckingham Palace was conducting an internal investigation into information that Meghan was shy around Palace staff. This message is seen by many as a counterattack by the House in a fierce fight for public sympathy.
Last month, the Buckingham House confirmed that the couple would no longer return to the ranks of the older members of the royal family, stating that they “will no longer perform the duties and responsibilities associated with life of public service.”
Soon after, tennis superstar Serena Williams praised her “selfless” friend Meghan on Instagram, adding that “her words illustrate the pain and cruelty she had experienced.”
The Sunday Times reported that the 94-year-old monarch Elizabeth II would not watch the show. The publication quoted anonymous representatives of the Chamber, who called the situation a “circus.”
Photo of Serena Williams with her husband Alexis Ohanian / Vida Press
Millions of views
In a two-hour interview with Harry and Meghan, O. Winfrey saw more than 17 million people live on American television on CBS. viewers. More than 11 million. people later saw it through British ITV.
O.Winfrey reportedly sold the interview to US broadcaster CBS for $ 7-9 million. Dollars, but he retained international rights to this material, temporarily saturating the world’s appetite for information on the centuries-old British monarchy and its troubles.
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