The Oprah Interview : Meghan Markle and Prince Harry spill the beans on the royal rift between them and Buckingham Palace. When Oprah asked Meghan if the British press had different standards for Kate and her, Meghan gave an emotional perspective.
"I don't know why, I can see now what layers were at play there. And again they really seemed to want a narrative of a hero and a villain," she says.
Oprah asks Meghan about being able to 'fit in'. Meghan Markle is a mixed-race person to marry into the British Royal family. She was also a divorcee and an independent woman. Did that concern her in being able to fit in?
"I thought about it because they made me think about it, right. But I think at the same time now upon reflection, thank God all of those things were true. Thank God I had that life experience. Thank God I had known the value of working."
- Meghan is also asked whether there was a "breaking point", and if she was "silent, or silenced"
- The interview comes after Harry and Meghan decided to step back as senior members of the Royal Family last year
- Harry previously said the decision to step back was in order to protect himself and his family from the British press
- Harry and Meghan first met on a blind date arranged by a mutual friend in 2016, and married in 2018
The two-hour-long Oprah interview cost CBS fee ranging in between £5.06million to £6.50million as per one report. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were on their first sit-down interview since Megxit.
Royal Romance to Royal Rift
First Baby
In October 2018, is when Meghan Markle became pregnant. Kingston Palace announced that the couple was expecting with their first child and in May 2019 Archie Mountbatten Windsor was born.
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Separate Set Up
In March 2019, Buckingham Palace created a new household for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. This was while they were still hosting their Royal Duties. They got their own office, their own staff. This also meant that their office was separate from the office they earlier shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace.
Forming Sussex Royal, The Split
In June 2019 they announced a split from the Royal Foundation and Prince William and Kate Middleton, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Instead the couple set up their own charitable foundation called Sussex Royal.
Meghan talks to Media
The former actor spoke how she had been warned before her marriage to Prince Harry that the British tabloids would “destroy” her life.
The Duke and Duchess Step Back from Their Royal Roles
In March 2020 the duo moved to Santa Barbara, California with Son Archie. Earlier in January, the stepped back as senior Royals.
February 2021
The Duchess of Sussex won her case against Associated Newspapers, the parent company of the Mail on Sunday. The High Court Judge Mark Warby ruled that “the newspaper did, in fact, breach her privacy and copyright when it published the letter she wrote to her father, Thomas Markle, before her wedding to Prince Harry in 2018.”
Also in February the couple announced Markle's second pregnancy