Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan: start time, how to watch

Royals don’t give Oprah interviews. It just isn’t done. On the other hand, Prince Harry, the second son of Prince Charles and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, herself a true iconoclast, was never going to be a prince by the rules. Now, Harry and his wife, Meghan, the American-born Duchess of Sussex, are sitting with celebrity royalty, Oprah Winfrey, for a highly anticipated televised interview.

The royal courtiers at the palace are probably nervous about Oprah With Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special on Sunday. They like to control the image of the family, and Meghan and Harry are now wild cards.

When is Oprah’s interview with Harry and Meghan?

The Oprah, Meghan and Harry special will air on CBS on Sunday, March 7 at 8 pm PT / ET and 7 pm CT. See below how to watch it if you don’t have a cable.

The 90-minute interview will begin with Oprah and Meghan in conversation, as the veteran talk show host gets the pregnant Duchess to open up about marriage, motherhood and the unique pressures of real life. Later, Prince Harry will join in and the two are expected to discuss their move to the US and their future plans. You just know that baby Archie will make some kind of appearance, because if Oprah knows anything, it’s how to make good television, and real babies are good television indeed.

CBS has released three preview clips.

How do we get here?

Normal protocol for someone as high in the royal family as Harry would be to live in the UK forever, as an active member of the royal family: attending hospital openings, museum exhibitions, board meetings, playing bingo with retirees and In general, just support Queen Elizabeth II in a calm but respectful way. But that was never going to be the preferred path for the rebellious Harry and his American-born actress wife. Realistically, with his father Charles, his brother William, and the three children of William and Kate on the throne row before him, Harry would never rule. So he and his wife, perhaps inspired by the late Diana’s love for America, decided to go their own way, Fleetwood Mac style.

You may have heard that Meghan and Harry (their royal titles are too tangled to continue to use here) moved first to Canada and then to California in 2020. In February 2021, after a year of testing, Buckingham Palace announced that the couple would not return as active members of the royal family, through them they would continue to be “much loved.”

And Meghan and Harry have been busy. In 2020, they signed a deal to develop programming for Netflix and also signed a deal with Spotify to produce and host their own podcasts. They now reside in the United States and Americans are going to the United States. So the Oprah interview, while not something a regular royal would do, fits perfectly with what a Hollywood celebrity would assume.

Why Oprah?

Why not Oprah? Although Winfrey stopped doing her iconic talk show in 2011, she remains one of the most powerful and well-known women in the American media, and perhaps the world. Harry is used to powerful women, of course, he just looks at his mom and grandmother. And Oprah has been a part of the royal couple’s lives for a while now. She attended her royal wedding in 2018 and lives not far from her home in Montecito, California. In fact, it was Oprah who gave baby Archie the cute book Duck! Rabbit !, which was seen reading with Meghan in a video released to mark her first birthday in May 2020.

Will there be bombs?

The palace lifetime can be forgiven for freaking out. In 1995, Harry’s mother Diana sat down for a televised interview with British journalist Martin Bashir. She served quite well, speaking of her bulimia, the lack of support she felt she received from royalty, and Prince Charles’s infidelity with Camilla Parker-Bowles, now his wife.

The taunts from the interview indicate that he’s really going to shake up royalty. In a preview clip, Winfrey announces, “You’ve said some pretty shocking things here,” and then raises her hands and says, “Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.” It also emphasizes that nothing is off the limits of the discussion.

And in a clip, posted Wednesday, Oprah asks Meghan how she feels about the palace “hearing your truth today.”

Meghan responds that she doesn’t know how the couple can be expected to be silent “if there is an active role that The Firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us, and if that carries the risk of losing things … much that has already been lost. “.

Yes, he actually said “The Firm”, one of the most slang terms for the royal family. But even putting that aside, the old guard in Buckingham and Windsor is likely to be furious at every word in this sentence. He seems to be suggesting a campaign of lies about the couple, which comes straight from the palace.

A lighter fee could be discussed. Meghan is expecting the couple’s second baby in 2021, so maybe she’ll share some information about it. Name preferences will almost certainly not be revealed, and it seems unlikely that Meghan will say whether she is having a girl or a boy. But it is possible that Oprah will give some kind of clue as to how much longer the couple has to wait for the new little one.

Perhaps the couple will share more information about their upcoming deals on the worlds of Netflix and Spotify. That would be a standard thing to do for a celebrity interview, but it’s still rare to hear royals, even eliminated, talk about making money from entertainment.

Royal watchers will take note of any little homey details: glimpses of the Sussex mansion in California, brief babbles and giggles from Archie, appearances by the couple’s dogs, the sort of thing People magazine covers about movie stars. And whatever it is, this is new territory for the queen’s grandson. The royal family has always lived in front of the cameras, but generally in a cautious way. Oprah is nothing if she is not checked out.

How do I see it if I don’t have a cable?

If you don’t have a cable or satellite TV subscription, you can watch the interview on CBS All Access streaming service or another live TV streaming service.

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