Things we learned from the explosive interview

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Publish Date : 2021-03-08 18:05:24


Things we learned from the explosive interview

It was the interview that some within Buckingham Palace must have feared -- but Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's discussion with Oprah Winfrey was more revealing, explosive and potentially damaging to the royal family than many could have imagined.

Allegations of racism within the family itself, and Meghan's admission that she felt suicidal during her pregnancy, have been splashed across newspapers in the United Kingdom.
Throughout their two-hour TV special, both Harry and Meghan spoke with eye-opening candor, delivering accusations and rebukes that outweighed even Princess Diana's landmark interview more than two decades earlier.
Here's a round-up of what we learned from the conversation.
Meghan had suicidal thoughts
The duchess has hinted before that her mental health suffered during her stint as a senior royal, but during her interview with Winfrey she spoke for the first time about how severe the experience had been.
She revealed that life within the royal family was so isolating and lonely, and that she felt so unsupported by the institution, that she contemplated suicide while pregnant with her son Archie.
She added that she raised those issues with the palace, but felt unprotected by them. "I went to the institution, and I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help, I said I'd never felt this way before ... and I was told that I couldn't, that it wouldn't be good for the institution," Meghan said, adding that she went to "one of the most senior people" to raise the concerns.
Emails were sent in which she was "begging for help," she added.
She told Harry about the ordeal because "I knew that if I didn't say it, that I would do it -- and I just didn't want to be alive anymore," Meghan said. She revealed her thoughts to her husband as they sat on the steps of their cottage. Hours later, the pair had to attend an event in London. "I can't be left alone," she remembered telling Harry, after he suggested she stay home.
Harry and Meghan last March, in their final royal engagement.
Harry and Meghan last March, in their final royal engagement.
"I wasn't prepared for that," Harry said during the interview. "I went into a very dark place as well. I wanted to be there for her." He said that every day he came home from work after Archie was born, he would arrive to see Meghan crying while breastfeeding their child.
But he said he did not broach the topic with other family members. "That's just not a conversation that would be had," Harry said. "I guess I was ashamed of admitting it to them ... For the family, they very much have this mentality of: This is how it is."
The duchess also revealed that she reached out to an unnamed friend of Harry's mother, Princess Diana, to talk through her struggles. "I didn't know who to even turn to in that. And one of the people that I reached out to, who's continued to be a friend and confidant, was one of ... Diana's best friends. Because it's like, who else could understand what it's actually like on the inside?" she told Winfrey.

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How to get help: In the US, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide also provide contact information for crisis centers around the world.
There were 'concerns' in the royal family about Archie's skin color
Meghan said there was concern within the royal family about her baby's skin tone, and Harry condemned his relatives for failing to criticize colonial undertones in media coverage.
Meghan told Winfrey that an unnamed member of the family raised the issue of how dark their unborn baby Archie's skin would be while she was pregnant.
There were several "concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he was born," she said, in one of the most stunning revelations from the interview.
Meghan reveals 'concerns' within royal family about her baby's skin color 
Meghan reveals 'concerns' within royal family about her baby's skin color
"That was relayed to me from Harry. Those were conversations that family had with him," Meghan added, declining to reveal who was involved in the conversations. "That would be very damaging to them," she said.
"That conversation, I am never going to share," Harry added. "At the time, it was awkward, I was a bit shocked."
When Winfrey asked if he could share the questions posed during the conversation, he declined, saying "I'm not comfortable with sharing that." On Monday, Winfrey told CBS that Harry had said the royal in question was not the Queen or Prince Philip.
"But it was right at the beginning," he added. "What will the kids look like? That was at the beginning when she wasn't going to get security, when my family suggested that she might continue acting (because there wasn't going to be money for her)."
In another part of the broadcast, Harry also criticized the royals for failing to support them when lawmakers pointed out "colonial undertones" in the way that Meghan was covered in the British press.
Harry and Meghan felt 'trapped' in the family
"My father and my brother, they are trapped," Harry said, lifting the veil on the extreme constraints the couple felt as members of the family. "It's a very trapping environment that a lot of them are stuck in," he added at another point in the broadcast.
The pair spoke several times about those constraints, relating them to their relationship with the media, their mental health, and their personal freedom.
Harry said he could not have left the family had he not met Meghan. "I was trapped, but I didn't know I was trapped," he said. "They don't get to leave," he added of his relatives, saying they are "trapped within the system" and that he has "huge compassion for that."
When Meghan joined the family, she said "that was the last time, until we came (to the United States), that I saw my passport, my driver's license, my keys. All that gets turned over."
"I couldn't call an Uber to the palace," she joked at one point.
Meghan also said she never received guidance on the formalities of the role. "Unlike what you see in the movies, there's no class on how to speak, how to cross your legs, how to be royal," she said, describing how she would Google the words of the British national anthem at night to avoid embarrassing the family.
The Queen with Harry and Meghan in 2018. The couple spoke glowingly of the monarch, but admitted their relationship with other royals was fraught.
The Queen with Harry and Meghan in 2018. The couple spoke glowingly of the monarch, but admitted their relationship with other royals was fraught.
The details behind their split from the royals
Winfrey asked Harry whether they quit as working members of the royal family because they were asking for help and couldn't get it. "Yeah, basically," Harry said. But the pair insisted they "never left" the family, and merely stepped back from their official roles.
"Lack of support and lack of understanding" was the simplest reason they left, he said.
But the prince hit back at stories last year that they blindsided the Queen by not telling her of their plan until it was public.
"I've never blindsided my grandmother, I have too much respect for her," Harry said. Asked where that report came from, he said: "It probably could have come from within the institution."
"This isn't working for everyone," Meghan recalled telling the royals.
"My biggest concern was history repeating itself," Harry said, adding that he saw the circumstances that affected his mother, Diana, unfolding again -- but more dangerously, given that racism and social media added to their challenges.
The pair said they suggested moving to a Commonwealth country and continuing to support the monarchy where needed, but they ultimately settled in the US after their security was removed.
"I got confirmation that no, the risk hadn't changed," Harry said, but given their change in status their protective detail would be revoked regardless. The issue of who would provide the couple's security was heavily covered in the media at the time, and the couple made clear that it was a decisive factor in their decision to move from Canada, where they stayed temporary, to California.
Their relationships with the Queen and Princes Charles and William
Few senior members of the royal family were portrayed positively in the interview, but the Queen was the exception.
Harry said the pair have spoken to the monarch several times since their move to the US, and also informed her of their decision to step down as working royals. "My grandmother and I have a really good relationship, and an understanding and I have a deep respect for her," he said.
But he admitted his relationships with his brother, Prince Wiliam, and his father, Prince Charles, are far more strained.
"I had three conversations with my grandmother and two conversations with my father, before he stopped taking my calls," Harry said, recalling the events surrounding their decision to leave last year.
"There's a lot to work through there. I feel really let down, because he's been something similar -- he knows what pain feels like, and Archie's his grandson.
Prince William and Harry in 2014
Prince William and Harry in 2014
"But at the same time, of course, I will always love him," Harry said, adding that repairing the relationship was one of his priorities.
He also hinted that he attempted to reveal to his family the constraints of royal life that he had discovered. "I've tried to educate them," he said.
Asked why Charles was not answering the phone, Harry suggested it was because he "took matters into my own hands."
Turning to his brother, Harry said: "I love William to bits, he's my brother, we've been through hell together ... but we're on different paths." He added that "the relationship is space at the moment," and that "time heals all things -- hopefully."
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