Meghan and Harry’s Oprah Interview: Royal Experts Verify the Duchess’s Explosive Claims

Since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey aired earlier this week, royal commentators and some members of Meghan’s own family have been quick to reject the claims.

The latest of the allegations to be dropped is Meghan’s claim that she had to surrender her passport and driver’s license when she became a member of the royal family.

Speaking to Oprah, the 39-year-old described feeling “trapped” while suffering suicidal thoughts during her time as royalty.

“You couldn’t just go. You couldn’t. I mean, you have to understand, too, when I joined that family, that was the last time, until we got here, that I saw my passport, my driver’s license, my keys,” He said.

“All that turns around. I didn’t see any of that anymore.”

Meghan claimed that she did not get these items back until after the couple moved to the US.

Royal sources told The Sun that Meghan’s passport had to be kept safe to ensure it didn’t fall into the wrong hands, but that it would still be available to her when she needed it.

“Of course the Royal Family would want to keep Meghan’s passport safe,” royal author Margaret Holder told the publication.

“But it is unthinkable that he did not take it for personal and private trips like his baby shower in New York, traveling to see friends in Canada, partying in Amsterdam and going to Lake Como with George Clooney.”

The post also revealed that Meghan left on 13 holidays after she started dating Harry, including trips to New York, Ibiza, Botswana, Italy and Amsterdam.

Meghan did not specify exactly when her passport was taken from her, only saying it was when she joined the family, which likely refers to the time after her marriage to Harry.

However, the couple also took part in official royal tours after their nuptials, visiting Morocco, South Africa and Australia, as well as New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji.

Meghan would have needed her passport for these visits, and only the Queen was not required to have a passport when traveling abroad.

These are some of the claims of the couple that have been contested.

Meghan and Harry’s ‘secret wedding’

Meghan and Harry told Oprah that they were secretly married in a private ceremony three days before their big public wedding.

“We called the Archbishop of Canterbury and said, ‘Look, this, this show is for the world, but we want our union with each other,'” Meghan said.

The archbishop agreed, Meghan said, and married them in their backyard, with just the three present.

However, under Church of England rules, all weddings require at least two witnesses and must take place somewhere where the public has “unrestricted access” during the ceremony in order for valid objections to be raised.

A couple who are legally married cannot legally remarry either, suggesting that one of the two ceremonies was just an exchange of vows.

The Rev David Green, vicar of St Mary’s, West Malling and the rector of St Michael’s, Offham commented on the revelation shortly after the interview.

“You can’t get married twice. So what happened three days before? And if it was a marriage, what the heck are we doing ‘playing’ prayer / holy marriage for the cameras,” he tweeted.

Reverend Green has asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to clarify Meghan’s claims.

Archie’s Prince Title

During the interview, Meghan laid out a series of conversations that reportedly took place before Archie’s birth about what his title would be and whether he would have security protection.

She said that she and Harry were told that their son would not receive the title of prince and that he would not receive security as a result.

“The idea that the first member of color in this family does not have the same title as other grandchildren,” Meghan said. “They have no right to take it away.”

Many UK media outlets responded to this comment, noting that Archie had no “right” to receive the title of prince.

Under the rules introduced by George V in 1917, only the children and grandchildren of a sovereign have the automatic right to be a prince or princess and use the title of His Royal Highness.

However, Meghan mentioned this rule during the interview, noting that when Charles becomes king, Archie will be entitled to a princely title.

She then claimed that while she was pregnant there was talk of “changing the convention.”

According to the statement of George V, of the queen’s great-grandchildren, only Prince George has the right to be a prince because he is in the direct line of succession to the throne as the eldest son of Prince William, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

Before George’s birth, the Queen stepped in to issue card patents, ensuring that all of Kate and William’s children had the titles of prince and princess.

Meghan hasn’t seen her sister in 19 years

In clips of the interview later released by CBS, Meghan spoke briefly about her half-sister Samantha, who has launched multiple attacks on the Duchess over the years.

Meghan was asked about what Samantha claims will be a revealing book about her half sister, titled The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister, which the 56-year-old promised will expose “hidden truths” about the Markle family.

Meghan cast doubt on how much truth there will be in her half sister’s book, stating that they haven’t seen each other in nearly two decades.

“I think it would be very difficult to say everything when you do not know me. I mean, this is a very different situation than my father, right? When you talk about betrayal, the betrayal comes from someone with whom you have a relationship.”, Le Meghan told Oprah.

“I don’t feel comfortable talking about people I don’t really know.”

Samantha rejected these claims, using a photo of the two of them at their 2008 graduation as evidence.

“She had said ‘I haven’t seen Samantha in 19 years.’ Well, she was at my bachelor’s graduation. There were so many photos in the media … and that was in 2008, so I don’t know about you, but if you do the calculations, 2008 to now is not 19 years, “he told Fifi, Fev & Nick on The Fox.

Meghan never investigated royalty

One of the first things Meghan told Oprah was that she was “naive” about what it would mean to join the royal family.

He said that although he was aware of royalty, he did not grow up knowing much about family and royal protocols.

“It wasn’t part of something that was part of the conversation at home. It wasn’t something we followed,” he said.

“I didn’t do any research. I never looked up my husband online, all I needed to know, he was telling me.”

However, Meghan’s half-sister, Samantha Markle, claims that her sister knew more about the royal family than she was letting on, noting that she visited Buckingham Palace as a teenager.

Speaking to Fifi, Fev & Nick on Melbourne’s Fox FM radio station earlier this week, Samantha went on to claim that her sister had been “strategizing” to get closer to Harry and even studied Princess Diana’s gestures.

“Meghan went out of her way to study Diana, mimic her clothes, mimic her body language, and wear Diana’s perfume on their first date,” Samantha said.

“Don’t tell me my sister didn’t know who Harry was.”

To be clear, Meghan never claimed not to know who Harry was, she just didn’t know much about the royal family before meeting him.