Why did Prince Harry rebel against the royal family?
The interview that the prince and his wife, Meghan, gave to Oprah Winfrey may further sour his relationship with British royalty. Keys to understanding the event of the year on television and the monarchy.
A quarter of a century ago, Oprah Winfrey was already the queen of the American small screen for her reports to characters of her like Michael Jackson, who in 1993 had given her the first interview of her in 14 years. The show broke a record in its genre, with 90 million viewers, which still stands today.
Then, Winfrey ambitioned to have Diana of Wales, the most popular woman on the planet, on her set, at war with her husband, Prince Charles, heir to the throne. She therefore traveled to London to try to convince the princess of her, who invited her to tea at Kensington Palace, but dismissed her empty-handed. Highly perceptive, Lady Di was untrustworthy by the host's flattery.
Now, in a way, Oprah finally gets what she wanted. Diana is dead, and hers her son Harry hers has been seduced by her along with her wife, Meghan Markle, her compatriot. At the close of this edition, the world had been waiting for weeks for the couple's first full confession, which has plunged the thousand-year-old throne into a public domain family brawl that had not been seen since the time of Diana.
The couple announced in 2020 that they were resigning from royalty, in the midst of a scandal, and henceforth their actions have not ceased to generate controversy. The last episode of the drama is this interview, which took three years to complete, and it would not be said that the initiative came, as one would expect, from Oprah.
In March 2018, she returned to Kensington Palace, invited by Harry and Meghan, protagonists of the new fairy tale.
She, an actress in the series Suits, was the Cinderella who had captivated the "prince of beers", as her own brother, William, called him by "tomatrago." In addition, he was a friend of marijuana and a scandal for disguising himself as a Nazi and being caught naked by a photographer with a lover in Las Vegas.
Within two months, Oprah was one of the guests at the couple's wedding at Windsor Castle, and since then, the mutual courtship between her and the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex has not stopped. When they moved to California, they bought a $ 14 million mansion in Montecito, not far from Promised Land, the ranch of her new best friend Oprah.
Why did the hostess result in the wedding if she had only seen the bride and groom once? The answer comes out now: mutual benefit. A powerful figure like Oprah (the architect of Barack Obama's arrival in the White House) is the platform that the Sussexes need to become popular in the United States. They, with her halo of royalty, help Oprah maintain her prestige.
That is surely not seen by those who, with good reason, are rather prey to the morbidity by what the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are going to say in their two-hour program, which charged $ 200,000 for 30 seconds of advertising, given the tense atmosphere that has it preceded.
Days before, the couple announced that they would definitely not return to the royal family. Queen Elizabeth made it formal with a statement: she said that they would no longer exercise public service, to which Harry and the lady replied that they would continue working because "service is universal."
This was seen as arrogance, as in the United Kingdom the queen, a venerable 94-year-old woman, is the mother of the nation and she is not answered. Harry was very upset with her, as he stripped him of her military titles, something very expensive for him.
The redhead was also showered with qualifications such as "indelicate" and "indolent" because he did not stop the transmission of the interview knowing that his grandfather Felipe de Edimburgo, 99 years old and whom the British adore as much as the queen, is hospitalized, very fragile of Health.
In one of the publicity clips of the face to face with Oprah, he says that his goal is to prevent Meghan from repeating the story of her mother.
It is well known the hell that Diana lived in the royal family, who did not behave as such, according to herself.
They considered her stupid and crazy, and they looked down on her different way of acting. Her husband, Carlos, did not love her and despised her for her lover, Camilla Parker Bowles. The result was severe bulimia, depression, and suicide attempts.
The monarchy, in addition, left her at the mercy of the paparazzi, who did not stop hunting her wherever she went from 1981 to 1997, when she died persecuted by a caravan of reporters.
Harry admits that her alcoholism and her follies were the result of her mourning silenced by her mother and the impotence of not being able to defend her.
Now, he sees Diana in Meghan and feels that his mission is to save her, according to reflections of Tim Lewis, in the anti-monarchical newspaper The Observer. In other words, he would be driven by revenge and resentment.
The other powerful conjecture is that he discovered that he is not Carlos's son, but James Hewitt's son, his mother's riding trainer. The old rumor is reinforced by the extraordinary resemblance between the two, and Diana's confession of romance in her explosive 1995 interview with Panorama.
Knowing the truth of his origin, says the runrún, he would have preferred to move to the United States, where no one will see him as a bastard but rather as a celebrity from another world, in a country that freaks out about the monarchy.
All that can come to light when they touch on obligatory topics such as race in the report, since Meghan is the first woman of Afro roots to be related to the Windsors. If her nationality alone is worth the derogatory appellation of "American", it is believed likely that her ethnicity has earned her rudeness.
Other unavoidable issues will be mental health and media siege, which the dukes apparently deemed impossible to charge. Some believe that they should stop victimizing themselves and follow the example of Diana, who endured him stoically and rather took advantage of journalists when she needed them.
Buckingham Palace was prepared for the virulence of indiscretions the Sussexes might reveal to Winfrey. When the promotions of the special came out, the courtiers were on guard and made sure that the story of the bullying accusations made against Meghan by her former employees in London reached the newsroom of The Times, the most prestigious newspaper in the country. The one who hits first ...
Diana's interview in Panorama renews her validity by keeping coincidences with that of her son and her daughter-in-law. She openly criticized the royal house, and from that moment on Isabel ordered her divorce from Carlos from her and removed the protection of the monarchy forever. If, like her, the Sussexes were very gossipy with Oprah, it is possible that the answer is the final slam of her majesty, her queen.
