It ended in the worst way. The two-hour interview aired last night on tv americana Cbs marked the definitive fracture from Harry e Meghan on the one hand and the British royal family on the other. From a deaf cold war we have passed to a war of war: and the destabilizing consequences on the monarchy will be felt for a long time to come. “I could not remain silent when the company (ie the royal family) continued to perpetuate falsehoods”said the Duchess of Sussex a Oprah Winfrey, the queen of US talk shows, who interviewed her: and added that that interview was “liberating” for her.
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Meghan Markle and the vent with Oprah
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he talked about everything: of her mental suffering, so much so that she contemplated suicidal thoughts when she was pregnant; of racism suffered, such as when an unidentified royal family member expressed concern that the son Archie was “too dark” (and for this reason they did not make him a prince); tensions with other members of the Windsor clan, for example with Kate, William’s wife, who would have reduced her to tears on her wedding day; finally, the circumstances that led her and her husband Harry to abandon their public role, because the future Duchess had been “naive” to marry a member of the royal family and discovered that living in Kensington Palace was like being in lockdown during Covid , Why she wasn’t even free to go out for lunch with her friends. Meghan she revealed that she had long wanted to speak to her friend Oprah: but that she had been prevented by the Palace officials. When he got a call from the American host, he had to put down why “It wasn’t the time”: there were other people in the room watching her.
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Prince Harry: “My father and brother are trapped”
“It was an incredibly tough time,” Harry added
, who later joined the conversation, “but at least we had each other.” And he compared their parable to that of his mother Diana: “I was afraid that history would repeat itself,” he said. Harry explained that he felt “trapped” in his real role and that marrying Meghan was his release: and of his father Charles and his brother William, the future kings, he said that they are both “trapped, because they cannot leave”.
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The Queen Elizabeth
This morning a breakfast briefing was prepared for the queen to immediately inform her of the contents of the explosive interview. The sovereign will not react directly, preferring to let the facts speak: and he will devote himself to a dense series of commitments throughout the week. Already yesterday he attended the Commonwealth Day, broadcast by the Bbc, where he praised the “dedication to duty” and stressed the importance of “unity and friendship”: words that could be read as an indirect reproach the conduct of the Dukes of Sussex. While unofficial sources from Buckingham Palace have already branded the couple’s appearance on American television screens as “A circus”: and it is probable that the real retaliation will not be long in coming.
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Harry, Meghan and the “break” with the royal family: the stages
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The wasted opportunity for everyone
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taste of the level at which the dispute has slipped this had already been the case in recent days, when the allegations of bullying launched against Meghan by members of the court staff emerged: revelations that were probably facilitated by the Palazzo, which promptly launched an investigation into the facts. But what went wrong with what at first seemed like a wonderful contemporary fairytale? After all, Meghan had been well received in the royal family, as she herself admitted at first: an independent woman of African-American descent seemed like a healthy breath of fresh air, like a chance to put an ancient institution in step with the times. But her character and culture soon clashed with the constraints of royal protocol: at the Palace the staff had nicknamed her the “Difficult Duchess”, while Harry was given the unflattering nickname of “the Hostage”. In particular, Meghan had not understood that in a monarchy the hereditary principle applies: and that therefore she and Harry could not be more than extras behind William, the heir to the throne, and Kate, the future queen. A supporting role that the ambitious former actress was close to. That is why they had tried to imagine for her and Harry a position of “itinerant ambassadors’ of the Commonwealth: but that didn’t work either. In the end, the divorce was inevitable: but for all of them it was a wasted opportunity. And now the British monarchy faces an existential crisis.
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