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Prince harry17-minute TV sketch featuring one of America’s top interview hosts – James corden it had been carefully planned.
Talking about the kinds of things Harry discussed – breaking up with his family, his mental health, his new life in California, the toxicity of the British tabloid, and what the Queen bought Archie for Christmas – is so much easier when the interviewer is also a good friend.
James Corden was one of the select few who received an invitation to Harry and Meghan’s wedding reception in 2018 and in many ways Harry could not have chosen a better matched interviewer as Corden is also a native of the UK. who now reside predominantly in California.
So Harry was never going to have a bad time from Corden, but that didn’t stop him from being asked about some sensitive matters, including the Duke and Duchess’s decision to stop working as Royalty.
Harry said life in the UK was “destroying my sanity” and denied that he and Meghan had “drifted away” preferring to describe their departure as “a step backwards”.
He recorded the interview a few weeks ago, before the Sussex divorce agreement with Buckingham Palace was finalized and the interview somehow explains why Harry and Meghan decided to end their statement last week with that blunt phrase about the service is “universal”. “.
“My life will always be about public service and Meghan has signed up for that,” he said as they drove through Los Angeles in an open-top bus.
Harry referred to Buckingham Palace – and his old life – as “that side” and pointed into the distance suggesting that there is more than an ocean and many miles between Los Angeles and London.
The gap between the Sussexes and the Royal Family is both geographical and personal.
“Regardless of the decisions made on that side, I will never leave,” the duke said, adding that he simply needed to “get my family out of here.”
Harry added, “I did what any husband and father would do.”
Much of the blame for the split fell on the British tabloid press, which he accused of fabricating stories and packaging them as news.
“We all know what the British press can be like,” he said.
And he acknowledged that he has fewer problems with the stories of The crown on Netflix than with the stories he reads about himself, because The Crown it is not “meant to be news.”
“It’s fictional, but it’s loosely based on the truth,” Harry told Corden when asked how he felt about the series.
“I feel much more comfortable with The Crown than seeing the stories written about my family, my wife or me.”
That’s interesting given that The Crown recently dedicated much of the final season to the unhappy marriage of Harry’s father and mother.
The Crown is “obviously fiction,” Harry said, but it has a “real problem” when false stories “are reported as fact because they are supposed to be news.”
But he also knows that he will have an actor to play him in a future series and said that actor Damian Lewis would be his preferred choice.
Other things we learned from the chat, which took place on an open-top tour bus while driving through Los Angeles:
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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh approach Harry and Meghan’s house to speak with Archie
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Prince Philip abruptly closes the laptop at the end of the conversation
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The Queen bought Archie a waffle maker for Christmas
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Meghan makes an organic waffle mix most mornings
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Archie’s first word was “crocodile”
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Harry knows the lyrics to the melody of the song Fresh Prince of Bel Air (they visited the house where it was filmed)
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Her nightly routine is cooking and watching television in bed.
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Needs to go to the bathroom in the middle of a filming session (was included)
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Meghan’s nickname for Harry is “Haz”
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When Corden asked to call Meghan, she was in Harry’s contacts simply as “M”
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Harry said that he had never been in an open top bus before.
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Harry said he “got along” with Meghan and their relationship went from 0 to 60 in two months.
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Dating a royal, Harry said, happens “the other way around,” as it must be done in secret before you can date.
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Archie, says Harry, “hysterical” and has begun to chain words
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Harry is still pretty good at an army-style assault course after his 10 years in the British Army.
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Harry thought Damian Lewis was called “Daniel” Lewis
An interview that Meghan has done with her television friend, Oprah Winfrey, will air on Sunday, March 7, in a “primetime special” in the United States.
Today a joint friend, CBS breakfast host Gayle King, said Meghan’s interview with Oprah is “the best thing she’s ever done.”
Both interviews will inevitably raise some eyebrows given that the Sussexes are inviting cameras into their private lives, but outside of the Royal Family, Harry and Meghan are showing that they can choose what media access to grant and that they can do so on their terms.
And by all accounts, they can have a lot of fun doing it.
