Meghan Markle accuses Buckingham of racism and pushing her to the brink of suicide
Meghan Markle and Harry gave a lengthy interview to host Oprah Winfrey broadcast on CBS.
Meghan Marke believes she was silenced after entering the royal family and being the victim of a "smear campaign" during a lengthy interview with host Oprah Winfrey broadcast Sunday night on CBS .
Meghan Markle, who is mixed race, claimed that members of the royal family were concerned about the skin color of her son Archie before he was born, during her interview.
The Duchess of Sussex declined to say who had this conversation with Harry, saying revealing their name would be very damaging.
She also said Buckingham Palace had refused to grant protection to her child, despite this being the tradition, and refused to grant her the title of prince.
It wasn't until we got married and everything started to really go downhill that I realized that not only was I unprotected, but that they were willing to lie to protect others. family members, Meghan said.
If the 39-year-old American denounced a real smear campaign on the part of the royal institution, the former actress was careful not to personally attack members of the crown.
Suicidal thoughts
She revealed that she wanted to die. Badly and depressed, she asked palace officials for help, but was refused her request to go to hospital for treatment on the pretext that it would be damaging to the image of royalty.
She said that she turned to the institution's human resources and that she was told not to be able to intervene, since she was not an employee of the palace. She maintains that she felt alone and wanted to end it.
She also said she was naive before her 2018 wedding, not realizing what she was getting into.
I'll say I went there naively, because I didn't grow up knowing a lot about the royal family, she said.
Meghan Markle claimed not to have made her sister-in-law Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, cry shortly before her marriage to Prince Harry, contrary to rumors about this incident which made the cabbages of British tabloids.
She insisted a lot on the fact that she always felt welcomed by Queen Elizabeth II.
During this interview, the couple revealed that they are expecting a daughter, their second child.
Having a boy, then a girl, what more can you ask for? said Prince Harry, who married Meghan Markle in 2018.
A lack of understanding
The couple has often justified their withdrawal and their departure from England by the desire to escape the British press, but they also publicly let their discomfort within the institution filter out.
Moreover, Prince Harry indicated that no member of the royal family would have spoken of the racist articles on Meghan. It hurts, he blurted out.
Installed in Canada, then in California, in Montecito, since March, the couple have already resolutely taken the tangent and capitalized on their image of modern couple, mixed, turned towards the humanitarian, in a country where the opinion is much more to them. favorable than in England.
During the interview, Harry said the decision was made because he felt a lack of support and a misunderstanding from the royal family.
Referring to his late mother, Diana, Harry felt that she would have been upset with how it all turned out. According to him, his father and brother, Charles and William, are prisoners of the system.
Harry said he felt really disappointed with his father, Prince Charles, especially since the latter went through similar difficulties. There will be work to improve their relationship, but at the same time, I will always love her, he added.
He also mentioned his brother, explaining that the two princes were on different trajectories, confirming, in hollow, that their relationship was strained, while reaffirming his affection for his elder.
By contrast, Charles and Diana's youngest son praised his grandmother, saying he didn't take her by surprise when he announced his retirement from the royal family.
My grandmother and I have a very good relationship and an understanding, he said. And I have deep respect for her. He's my colonel-in-chief. It will remain so.
Harry also claimed that Buckingham Palace stopped paying him money. He said he was able to live on his mother's inheritance.
We have done everything we can to stay with the royal family, Prince Harry concludes.
