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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave an interview to Oprah Winfrey: the royal family was accused of racism

The Duchess of Sussex Meghan told American TV presenter Oprah Winfrey that members of the British royal family were discussing how dark her son Archie's skin would be. Meghan and her husband Prince Harry gave their first in-depth interview after stepping down from official duties and leaving the UK. Air force.

Oprah's two-hour conversation with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aired on the American CBS TV channel on Sunday evening, March 7. During the show, Prince Harry said that their second child, who is now pregnant with Megan, will be a girl.

Meghan told Oprah that when she was pregnant with her first son, Archie, she was told that he would not be entitled to the title of prince, so he would not receive security like the rest of the royal family. According to Megan, this was a gross violation of tradition.

“They have no right to take it away. When I was pregnant they said they wanted to change Archie's traditions. I wonder why? - Megan said. “But the idea that our son would not be safe, and the idea that the first non-white member of this family would not receive the same title as the rest of the grandchildren...”

Oprah asked, “Why do you think this happened? Do you think it's because of his race? I know this is a trick question."

“I’ll give you an honest answer,” Megan said. “During the months when I was pregnant, during the same period there was talk that he would not be given protection and he would not receive a title, and there were also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin would be after birth.”

Oprah clarified who said it. Megan did not answer this question, and the presenter asked her question again. At the time, Meghan said: “There have been several conversations about this,” and added: “Harry conveyed this to me. These are the conversations the family had with him. And I think it was very difficult to look at them as isolated incidents.”

Later, when Prince Harry joined the conversation, Oprah asked him about these issues, and he replied: “This is a conversation I will never talk about.”

“At that moment I was just uncomfortable, I was a little shocked,” Harry said, and explained that it happened “very early in their relationship.”

The prince also said that what upset him most was the fact that members of the royal family did not condemn the publications of the British tabloids, which discussed Meghan's race. Harry recalled that more than 70 members of parliament spoke out against the colonial intonations of journalists.

“But none of my family members said anything in all three years. It hurts,” he said.

What else did Megan say

At the very beginning of the interview, Megan admitted that before the wedding she had never tried to find information about Prince Harry on the Internet. She added that, of course, she knew about the royal family, but was never interested in the details of their lives.

“I was very naive about it,” she said.

But she said the prince told her “everything she needed” before meeting the queen, which helped her cope with her nervousness. Before her first meeting with Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan, in her own words, “wasn’t too worried,” but on the way, still in the car, Harry asked her: “Do you know how to curtsy?” She interpreted this question as a reference to ceremonies that are intended for others, not for the family. “I thought it was so much a part of external ceremonies and not what was important and what happened inside the family,” she said.

When asked by Oprah Winfrey if she tried to find information about this on the Internet, Meghan laughed, saying that they “were in the car” at that moment and she simply did not have time for that.

She added that she grew up in Los Angeles and was used to celebrities, but after meeting Harry she realized “this is a whole different level.”

Who brought whom to tears

Answering Oprah Winfrey's question about the conflict with Kate Middleton, as a result of which, according to British newspapers, the Duchess of Cambridge even burst into tears, she said that the situation was exactly the opposite.

Megan said that Kate made her cry on the eve of the wedding because they did not agree on the color of the dresses for the girls, which were supposed to carry the bouquets during the wedding ceremony, but after that Kate apologized and even sent her flowers.

Prince Harry and Meghan admitted that in fact their wedding took place exactly three days before the ceremony, which was broadcast by all the leading television companies in the world.

“It was a performance for the rest of the world, but we wanted to have this ceremony just for us,” Meghan said.

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She added that the couple pledged allegiance to each other during a small private ceremony hosted by the Bishop of Canterbury, to which guests and even family members were not invited. As Megan said, the wedding photo, which now hangs on the wall in their house, was taken at this ceremony, which was closed to the rest.

At the same time, legally, the alliance between Megan and Prince Harry was concluded during the official wedding.

Loneliness and thoughts of suicide

According to Meghan, after becoming a member of the royal family, she felt lonely and was forced to remain silent. As she explains, she believed that she would be more protected if she refused to comment on the details of her personal life.

“But that turned out to be untrue,” she said.

Megan emphasized that the queen was always very warm to her, and during the first press release she even offered Megan her blanket.

Meghan also said that while she was a member of the royal family, she "constantly" had thoughts of suicide.

“They were very clear, real and very scary thoughts,” she said. “I couldn’t be left alone.”

According to her, she turned to several high-ranking officials of the royal court, asking for help or for the possibility of getting to the hospital. But she was told that such a step would cause a bad reaction. After that, she turned to one of the best friends of Princess Diana, but thoughts of suicide continued to visit her.

Megan also admitted that she felt she was being held captive after her driver's license, passport and bank cards were taken from her immediately after the wedding ceremony.

Charles "didn't pick up"

Harry, in turn, stated that he was worried that his mother's story would repeat itself with Meghan.

“I saw this history repeating itself,” he said.

The prince stressed that he saw too many coincidences in the lives of his wife and his mother, Princess Diana, which, moreover, were complicated by racial issues and attacks on the couple on social networks.

He repeatedly asked for help, but this was denied to him. As Harry said, at one point, his father, Prince Charles, stopped answering his phone calls.

Harry said that they had a long discussion with Megan how exactly they can leave the royal family in order to avoid constant pressure. The same issue, he said, he discussed with many people, including the queen.

“I would never leave my grandmother in the dark,” he said.

According to the prince, the final break between his wife and the royal family occurred after the couple visited Australia. Then, according to Harry, his relatives began to be “jealous” of Meghan, seeing how easily she communicated with people and how warmly she was received. Megan, in turn, said that no one helped her in preparing the trip. She had to search the Internet for all the necessary information, including the words of the national anthem.

She also denied reports that she was planning to leave the royal family even before the wedding. As Prince Harry said, he would never have left the family if he had not married Meghan. This marriage, he said, opened his eyes to the fact that the royal court was actually a “trap.”

“My father and my brother, they are trapped. They can’t escape, and I sympathize with that,” he said.

Harry also revealed that the royal family stopped funding them and the couple signed contracts with US companies Spotify and Netflix to secure financial independence. He added that he has funds left by Princess Diana.

Expected sensation

The interview, released in the American Sunday prime time, was perhaps the most anticipated sensation in the UK in recent weeks. Snippets of the conversation that had appeared in advance were discussed on the front pages of newspapers, experts on the royal family were looking for secret meanings in them. Some asked to postpone the airing of the interview in order to protect the health of Harry's 99-year-old grandfather Prince Philip, who has been in the hospital for almost three weeks.

“I don’t know how, after everything they’ve done, the royal family expects us to sit silently. They play an active role in spreading lies about us,” Meghan said in an interview.

Harry and Meghan's union initially looked promising: their engagement in November 2017 was received with great enthusiasm by the press on both sides of the Atlantic. The decision of the royal rebel Prince Harry to marry an American actress with African American roots and with one marriage behind her was supposed to symbolize the transformation of the image of the royal family in a changing world.

Many drew parallels with the fate of Harry's great-grandfather Edward VIII, for whom marriage to a divorced American woman, Wallis Simpson, cost the throne.

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But enthusiastic expectations of change quickly gave way in the popular British press to condemnation of almost every innovative step of the couple: the tabloids fell upon Megan for reworking the wedding ring, for working on the issue of Vogue magazine, for not taking the traditional picture with her newborn son, instead of this is his photo on Instagram, and also for not letting the press on his baptism.

As a result, the couple's relationship with the tabloids, who shape the opinion of a huge number of British people, were utterly spoiled. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex first announced their complete refusal to cooperate with a number of popular publications, and later successfully sued the Mail on Sunday newspaper for invasion of privacy and defamation.

However, public pressure turned out to be too strong, and in January 2020, Harry and Meghan announced that they intend to leave the UK, resign from basic royal duties and strive for financial independence.

Over time, the British press left Harry and Megan a little alone, but after the announcement of the interview, their family again became the most talked about in the country. On March 3, The Times published excerpts from an email from the couple's former spokesman who claimed that Meghan had survived two employees and was humiliatingly treated others.

Buckingham Palace, which rarely comments on media reports, immediately issued a statement saying the allegations would be investigated. Megan called it a "planned attack" on herself.

Also, shortly after the interview was announced, it became known that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not return to royal duties, although they remain, according to the palace, “much loved members of the family.”

Harry and Meghan continue to work with a number of charities and last year signed contracts with Netflix and Spotify to produce documentaries and podcasts. They now live in California and are expecting their second child.

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