Racism, Elizabeth II reaction: Meghan and Harry make new revelations
They had so much to say that one show was not enough: Snippets from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on March 8 on CBS This Morning. The couple is not kind to their respective families.
They said it: This will be the last interview they give about their decision to no longer be active members of the Royal Family. But it contains so many revelations that one show was apparently not enough: Monday, March 8, new clips of the interview given by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to Oprah Winfrey were broadcast in the morning show CBS This Morning . And for the first time, the Duke of Sussex is going after his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth.
He said the Queen had telephoned them to invite them, Meghan Markle and him, to come to his Sandringham property shortly after they announced their decision to no longer be active members of the royal family, in January 2020. The couple were in Canada at the time. But the stay would then have been canceled at the last moment. “My grandmother said to me: 'As soon as you land, come to Sandringham to have a chat, have tea, and why not stay for dinner because after this whole road you will be exhausted,” Prince Harry explained.
The manipulated queen?
The prince would have accepted. But as soon as the couple arrived on English soil, he reportedly received a message from the Queen's personal secretary, informing her that she was busy. Harry reportedly reached Elizabeth II immediately by phone: "I reminded her of this evening when I was thinking of coming to see her, and that I had been told she was busy." She replied: 'Yes, there is something in my diary that I was not aware of.' "Harry then asked the Sovereign about the rest of her week:" She m 'replied,' I'm busy here too. ' Okay. I didn't want to insist because I knew what was going on. ”
According to Prince Harry, it is the entourage of the queen who would have advised him against seeing his grandson and his wife, after their announcement of the "Megxit": "When you are at the head of the firm, there is people who give you advice, he explained. And what makes me sad is that some of this advice was really, really bad. ”
A torn family
Meghan Markle, for her part, returned to the relationship she maintains with her family. And especially with her father, Thomas Markle, whom she has not been close to for a long time. Shortly before his daughter's wedding, he had created a scandal with a fake paparazzade, and had not been invited to the ceremony. The Duchess of Sussex, who felt “betrayed” by her father, “found it difficult” to reconcile with him.
She then lashed out at her stepsister, Samantha Markle, who hasn't been kind to her in the media: "It's hard to say all of this without even knowing me," adding that the other girl of Thomas Markle, with whom she was not raised and whom she has not seen for almost 20 years, only took over that last name after learning that Meghan had started a relationship with the prince Harry.
British media racism
Prince Harry finally said that it was "in large part" because of the racist treatment that British tabloids "bigots" inflict on his wife that the couple decided to flee England. Meghan Markle, for her part, gave the same explanation to the difference with which the media evoke them, Kate Middleton and her: “We called her“ Waity Katy ”(Katy who waits, Editor's note) for having waited to marry William. I imagine it was difficult, really, I can imagine what it feels like, but it's not the same. And when a member of that family quietly says that we've all had to endure tough things: indelicacy and racism, it's not the same. "
Oprah Winfrey has finally returned to the information revealed the day before by the couple, according to which an older member of the royal family is concerned about the skin color of little Archie. Neither the Duke nor the Duchess of Sussex wanted to reveal his identity, to protect him or her. On Monday March 8, the host said Prince Harry had assured her that it was not his grandparents, namely Prince Philip or Queen Elizabeth. But that he had refused to tell her, even off camera, with whom he had had this "very shocking" conversation.
