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Meghan and Harry Oprah interview live: Meghan regrets 'believing them when they said I would be protected' Meghan and Harry Oprah interview live: Meghan regrets 'believing them when they said I would be protected'
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Prime time two-hour special with Duke and Duchess of Sussex delivers bombshell after bombshell about life inside the royal family Duke and Duchess of Sussex speak of personal rifts with other members of the royal family in two-hour special with Oprah Winfrey
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Meghan said that she reached a point where she “just didn’t want to be alive anymore. And that was a very real and clear and frightening and constant thought.”
Meghan said that Harry was asked by family how dark Archie’s skin might be. Oprah asked Meghan why they didn’t want to make Archie a prince. In the months leading up to Archie’s birth, there were not only conversations about how he would not be given a title, and there would not be security, but also about how dark her baby’s skin might be and “what that would mean or look like”, says Meghan. The conversation was had between Harry and a member or members of his family. It was relayed to her by Harry. Neither Meghan nor Harry would say who the conversation was with.
Harry said Diana would be “angry and sad” at how things worked out. Oprah asked what Harry thought Diana would say about the couple stepping back. “I think she would feel very angry and sad at how this all panned out. But I think all she would ever want would be for us to be happy.”
Harry has been cut off financially since the first half of 2020. The only money he has, besides extremely lucrative deals with companies including Netflix, is what was left to him by Princess Diana.
Prince Charles at one point stopped taking Harry’s calls, but the pair are now speaking again. Harry says he still feels “really let down” by Prince Charles.
It’s a girl. The couple are due to welcome a baby girl to the world some time later in the US summer. This will be their last child, they said.
Meghan and Harry were married three days before royal wedding. Three days before the royal wedding, Meghan and Harry got married, just them and the priest. “Nobody knows this,” said Meghan.
Meghan said she never made the Duchess of Cambridge cry, but that Kate had made Meghan cry. It was reported in British tabloids months after the wedding that Meghan made Kate cry over flower girl dresses. Actually, says Meghan, the “reverse happened”. Kate in fact made Meghan cry over something to do with flower girl dresses. But Kate apologised at the time and brought flowers.
The couple still talk to the Queen and have enormous respect for her. The Queen made Meghan feel very welcome and they shared a blanket while riding in a coach.
There were chickens. Oprah interviewed the couple briefly at their Santa Barbara home. The interview took place in and around a chicken coop. Oprah held a carton of eggs. Meghan held a small basket of eggs. The chicken coop said “Archie’s chickens”.
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I’ll have a recap of what we learned in a few flips of a crumpet.I’ll have a recap of what we learned in a few flips of a crumpet.
But Meghan is happy now, she says.But Meghan is happy now, she says.
“So your story with the prince does have a happy ending?” says Oprah.“So your story with the prince does have a happy ending?” says Oprah.
“It does,” says Meghan.“It does,” says Meghan.
Oprah asks Harry: Do you think [Meghan] saved you?”.Oprah asks Harry: Do you think [Meghan] saved you?”.
“Without question,” says Harry.“Without question,” says Harry.
Meghan says it was Harry who saved “all of us”.Meghan says it was Harry who saved “all of us”.
“But you need to want to be saved,” says Meghan.“But you need to want to be saved,” says Meghan.
Oprah thanks the couple for sharing their “love story”.Oprah thanks the couple for sharing their “love story”.
That was harrowing.That was harrowing.
Oprah says there will be a little more tomorrow (!) that couldn’t be included tonight as well as reactions from around the world.Oprah says there will be a little more tomorrow (!) that couldn’t be included tonight as well as reactions from around the world.
Oprah asks whether the couple has any regrets. Harry says no, but that he is so proud of Meghan for “safely delivering Archie” during a really difficult time. He would come home to Meghan breastfeeding Archie while crying.Oprah asks whether the couple has any regrets. Harry says no, but that he is so proud of Meghan for “safely delivering Archie” during a really difficult time. He would come home to Meghan breastfeeding Archie while crying.
Meghan says she has one regret: “My regret is believing them when they said I would be protected.”Meghan says she has one regret: “My regret is believing them when they said I would be protected.”
Harry is very much enjoying the freedom he has now with Archie. Archie’s favourite thing to say is “drive safe” when people leave the house.Harry is very much enjoying the freedom he has now with Archie. Archie’s favourite thing to say is “drive safe” when people leave the house.
Back to the wicker chairs for the interview.
The exit agreement is coming up at the end of March. Is Harry hurt by the decision, Oprah asks.
He is, he says, but be “absolutely respects” the Queen’s decision. In February this year, the palace said the couple would not return as working members of the royal family, adding that they would also be giving up their royal patronages.
We’re back... to the chickens.
Now Meghan is holding a small basket of eggs. The chicken coop says “Archie’s chickens”.
Back to the conversation about Archie’s skin tone.
Harry says, “That conversation I am never going to share.” He felt “awkward” he says, but he is not prepared to share what the question asked was.
“It was at the very beginning,” he says. There were “some real obvious signs even before we got married that this was going to be hard,” he says.
The couple still have Zoom calls with the Queen, says Harry.
His father is taking his calls again, but he still feels “really let down” by Prince Charles.
His father has “been through something similar” but “they only know what they know” – Meghan interrupts to say, “and what they’re told”.
Harry says he loves his brother “to bits” but that they are “on different paths”.
We’re back.
Harry says that the deals with Spotify and Netflix deals were never part of the plan, but that his family cut him off financially in the first half of 2020 and he had to find a way to afford security.
He has what his mother, Princess Diana, left him, but other than that has been cut off financially.
Helen Sullivan here, bringing you the latest from this incredible interview. A reminder that you can get in touch with me on Twitter @helenrsullivan.
Oprah asks what Harry thinks Diana would say about the couple stepping back.
“I think she would feel very angry and sad at how this all panned out. But I think all she would ever want would be for us to be happy.”
We cut to an ad break – but coming up, Oprah will ask Harry about his allegedly being asked by family about how dark Archie’s skin might be before he was born.
Oprah asks Meghan about her role in “Megxit” and whether it was “all intentional to build your brand”.
Nobody prepared her for her role or how to be a royal. They didn’t even think of preparing her to sing the British national anthem, she says.
Oprah asks Harry whether he would have stepped back were it not for Meghan.
“No,” says Harry, he would not. “I was trapped but I didn’t know I was trapped.”
Oprah asks how exactly he was trapped.
“Trapped within the system, like the rest of my family are. My father, my brother they are trapped,” he says.
Harry says he never thought that as a prince born into the family, he never imagined he would have his security removed.
Meghan says she appealed to the family to at least maintain Harry’s security, even if they would not provide security for her and Archie.
Harry calls Meghan “one of the greatest assets to the Commonwealth that the family could have ever asked for.”