The interview of Meghan and Harry, new episode of the soap opera that tears the British royal family
The couple who left England in 2020 continue to upset the royal family. An upcoming interview on a major American channel causes new tensions.
Meghan and Harry against the Royal Family is the soap opera of the moment in the UK. Between the couple who are expecting their second child and Buckingham Palace, tension has been mounting for almost a year, with lawyers, accusations, an internal investigation at the Palace ... and a new episode to come on the night of Sunday 7 in Monday March 8: the American channel CBS will broadcast a confession interview with Meghan and Harry carried out by their friend Oprah Winfrey.
The first excerpt from this interview is not reassuring for the royal family. We hear Harry reconsider their choice to leave England, the famous Megxit, in January 2020, and summon his mother's ghost, Diana, to talk about this painful departure. "I'm really relieved and happy to be sitting here talking to you, with my wife by my side," Harry confided. Because I can't imagine what must have happened for her to launch. this process all alone, so many years ago. Because it was incredibly hard for us but at least we were together. "
This interview is seen as a provocation by Buckingham Palace. In fact, four days after the broadcast was announced, the Palace announced that the couple had forfeited all honors related to royalty. Harry notably lost all his military titles and his patronages, to which he was very attached.
Since the couple made the choice to withdraw from monarchical life, they had already been asked to observe a duty of reserve, to be financially independent and to no longer use their titles of royal highnesses.
Harry and Meghan have also recently signed a lucrative contract with Netflix. The platform already broadcasts the series "The Crown" recounting the life of Queen Elisabeth II, Harry's grandmother, which is scandalous in the United Kingdom for the image of plague manipulator it gives of Prince Charles, father of Harry .
"They thought they could do it differently"
To justify their departure from England, Harry and Meghan often refer to the pressure from the English tabloids, but they also suggest that it is not just that. Meghan in particular has had great difficulty in complying with the demands of the Court. In the British daily The Times, we read that employees of the Palace speak of "unacceptable behavior" on his part. The "humiliations", the "intimidations" she allegedly subjected them to. Following these accusations, Buckingham even launched an internal investigation.
Meghan's lawyers claim The Times is being manipulated by the Palace to peddle a completely false account. According to BBC crown specialist Jonny Dymond, the couple actually wanted to carve out a place of their own in royalty, which he says is impossible. “You're in or out. And they thought they could do it differently. It was very surprising. And there's this very strange situation where it's both a family but also a state institution. this point of collision between the two provides us with all that strange entertainment that is the British royal family. "
For her part, Queen Elisabeth II, imperturbable, shows nothing. She recently appeared on a video conference to promote the Covid-19 vaccine or to unveil (on video) a statue representing her in Australia. Each time smiling, irremovable in the midst of a torn family, she tries to keep up appearances also just as her husband, Prince Philip, 99, has been hospitalized for more than two weeks.
