Summary
- Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have sat down with Oprah Winfrey for the biggest royal interview since Princess Diana’s famous 1995 tell-all with the BBC’s Panorama program that airs on CBS, Sunday night in the US (about midday AEDT).
- The duke and duchess resigned as working members of the royal family in January 2020 and relocated to Montecito, California, where they have effectively embarked on a commercial enterprise, signing lucrative deals with Spotify, Netflix, Disney and, setting the stage for the explosive TV interview, Winfrey’s production company Harpo.
- The Queen has spoken of “selfless dedication to duty” in a Commonwealth Day message broadcast in the UK just hours before the tell-all television interview airs in the US.
- The 94-year-old monarch will be briefed on the couple’s encounter with the American talkshow host when she wakes at Windsor Castle on Monday morning UK time but reportedly has no intention of watching it. Meanwhile, Prince Philip has spent his 19th night in hospital after contracting an infection and undergoing heart surgery.
- Sources say William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, privately remain “hopeful of a reconciliation” with their brother and sister-in-law despite the prospect of criticism in the Oprah interview.
A mixed-race woman, an American and a divorcee
By Bevan Shields
We move on to a very serious topic in the interview: race.
Oprah notes Meghan was the first mixed-race woman to marry into the royal family.
She also came in as an American, an actress and a divorcee, Oprah adds.
Meghan says “thank god” she had that life experience before the wedding.
“I’ve always worked. I’ve always valued independence. I’ve always been outspoken, especially about women’s rights.
“I have advocated so long for women to use their voice and then I was silent.“
Were you silent or silenced, Oprah asks?
“The latter.”
Gender predictions: Boy or girl?
We’ve heard that Meghan and Harry will reveal the gender of their second child during this interview. So, place your predictions here:
Baby bump wars: Meghan speaks of the press coverage of her first pregnancy
By Bevan Shields
Meghan gets defensive when Oprah reads out newspaper headlines about her first pregnancy.
The press coverage is more flattering of Prince William’s wife.
Was there one standard for Catherine and one for you, Oprah asks?
Meghan, pictured during a charity visit in London, was criticised online for cradling her baby bump.Credit:AP
“I don’t know why,” Meghan says.
“They really seem to want a narrative of a hero and a villain.”
Meghan’s interview dress has sold out
By Melissa Singer
Although the world got a glimpse last week of the Giorgio Armani dress Meghan is wearing, it’s worth recapping that the dress, which retails for approximately $6500, is sold out worldwide. One question I have been pondering: as a serving royal, Meghan had to pay for all her own clothes but now she and Harry have stepped back, is she open to receiving clothing sponsorships and the like?
Meghan’s Armani dress has sold out around the world.
She made me cry, Meghan says of Catherine
By Bevan Shields
Oprah has asked about rumours the duchess was ‘Hurricane Meghan’ and rumours she made Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, cry ahead of the 2018 wedding.
“Did you make her cry,” Oprah asks?
“No,” Meghan replies through heavy sighs.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, at Wimbledon in 2019.Credit:AP
Meghan says Catherine actually made her cry.
“A few days before the wedding she was upset about something ... and it made me cry and it really hurt my feelings,” Meghan says of her soon-to-be sister-in-law.
The dispute was apparently about a flower girl’s dress.
“What was hard to get over was being blamed for something not only I didn’t do, but happened to me.”
Meghan says “it’s a good question” why the record wasn’t corrected publicly by the palace.
This is not Harry and Meghan’s mansion
By Michael Idato
So, where are we? Key detail: we’re neither at Oprah’s house nor Harry and Meghan’s house. According to Winfrey, the interview is being staged at the home of a mutual friend of the pair. Meghan and Harry live at Riven Rock, a chateau in Montecito, California. The 3 hectare property with a 1672 square-metre Italian-style villa main house, sits at the end of a driveway lined with Cypress trees, and a two bedroom guest house. The property includes a swimming pool, tennis court and the guest house which media reports say is being used by Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland.
The neighbourhood of Montecito is also star-studded. Neighbours include Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, Rob Lowe, Ariana Grande, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi, and - surprise, surprise - Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham. Other past and present residents of the neighbourhood include Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dame Judith Anderson, Drew Barrymore, Steve Martin, John Travolta, Tom Cruise and Jimmy Connors.
Breaking: Meghan reveals she and Harry married three days before royal wedding
By Bevan Shields
Meghan has revealed she and Harry actually married three days before the royal wedding. She asked the Archbishop of Canterbury and he did it for them.
This was not the couple’s “real” wedding.Credit:Gareth Fuller
Meghan recalls her first encounter with the Queen
By Bevan Shields
Meghan is asked about the first time she met the Queen.
“We were going to lunch at Royal Lodge ... and then it turned out the Queen was finishing a church service there in Windsor,” she says.
“I remember Harry and I are in the car and he said, ‘OK, you are going to meet my grandma’.”
Harry asked Meghan if she knew how to curtsy and she replied: “What?”
Queen Elizabeth II, with Meghan and Prrince Harry in 2018.Credit:AP
She asked why she would curtsy inside to his grandmother and he explained: “Because she’s the Queen.”
Meghan isn’t speaking slowly or choosing her words particularly carefully. She seems to be answering the questions quite directly. So far.
No subject off-limits
By Michael Idato
It may be a decade since The Oprah Winfrey Show left the airwaves - it aired between 1986 and 2011 - but the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, America’s confessor-in-chief, is a very familiar setup. During its 25-year-run, Winfrey’s confessional was visited by everyone from Ellen DeGeneres, Kirstie Alley, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, to a sofa-jumping Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan and Queen Rania of Jordan. Winfrey’s show was criticised at times too, for giving a platform to some controversial figures, such as vaccine denialist Jenny McCarthy.
These televised confessions are typically framed as no-topic-off-limits discussions, but it is interesting to note that there have been exceptions to that rule. One very high profile example: Winfrey agreed not to ask acting legend Elizabeth Taylor about her relationships and marriages during their interview. It took several years for Taylor to return to the show and apologise for making the demand.
‘I’ve never looked up my husband online’: Meghan
By Bevan Shields
Oprah says surely you would do research before getting married to a member of the royal family?
“I’ve never looked up my husband online,” Meghan replies.
“I didn’t feel a need because everything I needed to know he was telling me.”
Meghan says she and Harry were “aligned” on their interests. “I didn’t romanticise any element of it, but I think as Americans especially, what you think you know about the royals is what you see in fairytales.”
Meghan says the “perception and the reality” are very different things.
She says she is judged on the perception when the reality was actually quite ugly.
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