The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reveal the s*x of her second child in their well-known interview with Oprah.
He was expected to be a bomb and he has not disappointed. In prime time the highly anticipated interview of Oprah Winfrey with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry after several days dosing various advances. In it, Markle openly acknowledges that she had suicidal thoughts and speaks, just as openly, about racism within the British royal house.
On the first issue, she has revealed that during the pregnancy of her first child, Archie, she had "very clear, real and constant, scary" thoughts about suicide and that no one, except her husband, helped. "I no longer wanted to live", she has confessed to the presenter. The pressure of the media led her to an untenable situation: "She thought that it would be the best for everyone."
She has stated that she went to "one of the highest-ranking people in the institution" of the Royal House and "begged him to help her" improve her mental health, but they replied "no, they couldn't do anything" for her. , collects EFE. "They never did anything, so we had to find a solution," Markle added, referring to their decision to step away from the monarchy and start a new life outside the UK.
The Duchess of Sussex stressed that, although at that moment she could not feel "alone anymore", she has recovered her mental health and now she feels that she is "worth living".
Concern over Archie's skin tone
During the interview, the Duchess of Sussex stated that Harry himself told her that in a conversation with a member of the British royal family, they expressed their "concerns" about Archie's skin tone and what that could mean.
"Are you kidding? Was one of the concerns Archie's skin color?" Oprah replied. “There were concerns and conversations about how dark Archie's skin could be. Harry passed it on to me," Markle confirmed.
When Oprah asked who Harry had those conversations with, Markle refused to answer. "I think it would be very detrimental to them", she has sentenced herself.
Prince Harry later joined the interview, stressing that he will never reveal what happened during that meeting.
The final months of Markle's pregnancy with her first child with Prince Harry were embroiled in controversy over the royal family's decision not to grant Archie a princely title and to protect him. The Duchess of Sussex has shown her doubts about why her son would not receive the same treatment as other grandchildren.
“The most important title I will have is that of mom,” Markle has said. But "if the title is going to affect her protection we are not going to live with this monstrous machine around us, our son needs to be safe."
“When you are the grandson of a monarch, when Carlos becomes king, automatically Archie and our next child would be prince or princess. they have no right to take it away. While I was pregnant they said they wanted to change that," Markle told the presenter.
"The narrative that I made Kate [Middleton] cry was the beginning of my' character assassination," Markle dated, referring to the rumor that she made her sister-in-law cry before her wedding to Harry. After assuring that it is false and that, in fact, it happened the other way around - "she made me cry and hurt my feelings" -, she regretted that the Royal House did not deny it, as it did with other rumors.
Markle added that the Duchess of Cambridge apologized and sent her flowers. She also assured that she considers that she is "a good person."
Regarding his brother Guillermo, Harry maintained that they give each other "space" and that although he "loves her very much", they are on "different paths". The one with whom he was disappointed was Prince Charles, his father, who stopped picking up the phone after his decision to leave the monarchy: “I feel really disappointed, because he has gone through something similar. There has been a lot of pain."
Enrique denied another rumor: that he hid her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, her departure from her royal house: "I would never hide something like that from my grandmother, I have too much respect for her." He said that they maintain a good relationship and that they usually talk on Zoom.
Comparison with Lady Di
The Duke of Sussex recalled that in the beginning his family welcomed his partner, but that everything changed after their tour of Oceania, a situation similar to that experienced by his mother, Diana of Wales in 1983. In both, Lady Di and Markle saw their popularity skyrocket. "My biggest concern was that history would repeat itself," Enrique acknowledged.
She will be a girl
At another point in the talk, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed to Oprah that they are expecting a girl. The couple chose last Valentine's Day to announce Markle's second pregnancy.
“We can confirm that Archie is going to become the big brother. The Duke and Duchess are delighted to announce that they are expecting their second child," said the statement issued by the Cabinet of the Dukes of Sussex to publicize the good news. The text was accompanied by an idyllic black and white photograph of the couple taken by their friend and photographer Misan Harriman.
A secret
Harry and Meghan also revealed something they had been very quiet about: they got married in secret three days before their big and televised royal wedding.
"Nobody knows. We called the archbishop and said, 'Look, this, this show, is for the world, but we want our union to be for us,' Markle recalled.
“In the vows we have framed in our bedroom, the two of us in our courtyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Just the three of us,” he added.
