Harry and Meghan have confessed there was a 'lack of support from Buckingham
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have generated a stir with their latest interview for Oprah Winfrey, broadcast this Sunday, March 7, in the United States and broadcast in the United Kingdom this Monday. The attacks on the Royal House and the behavior that, according to the Dukes, some members of the family have had towards them have been the most prominent topics of the conversation in which Harry has assured that "he was trapped" by the institution and that knowing Meghan and sharing their lives was wonderful.
But what really pushed them to disassociate themselves from the Royal House? Even though at first, they wanted to continue with their institutional obligations as members of the Windsors, the Queen recently issued a statement in which she clarified that they could not "continue with the responsibilities and duties that a life of public service entails", separating them for a full list of Buckingham Palace activities.
Lack of freedom
Meghan began the talk with Oprah by explaining the reasons why she could not grant him an interview in 2018, before her wedding to Harry: "I was not allowed to have that conversation with you," she assured. "It is really liberating to have the right and the privilege, in a certain way, to say 'yes, I am ready to speak' and to be able to make a decision and speak for myself", explained the Duchess, alluding to the fact that on many occasions she was silenced by the Royal House and that this prevented him from having the autonomy to make his own decisions. "I've always worked and valued independence, I've been very involved and very open about the rights of women to use their voice and then I was silenced," she added. In a pause in the interview in which the Dukes appear on a farm surrounded by chickens with Oprah, Prince Harry's wife compares her situation to Disney's Little Mermaid: "She falls in love with the Prince and has to lose her voice for him but in the end, he gets it back." She also explained that during her stay at Kensington Palace, she was only able to go out twice over four months. A member of the Royal Family suggested that she "stay hidden for a while" because she "was everywhere", referring to the fact that the press only talked about her. "I'm everywhere but nowhere," Meghan replied, assuring that she always talks about what she sees but never what she feels. "I couldn't have felt more alone at a time as complicated as that," said the Duchess, who came to compare what she lived through with the confinement we have suffered in the face of the health crisis: "Now people can understand it better."
They received no help from the Royal Family
In her statements about how she came to feel during her stay at Kensington Palace, some elements are reminiscent of what Diana of Wales experienced and for which she came to have very negative thoughts about her own life. "She knew that if she didn't say it, she would have done it. She didn't want to stay alive, it was a clear, constant, and terrifying thought," the Duchess explains. "I went to the Institution and told them that I needed to see someone to receive help and they told me that I couldn't because it wouldn't be good for them," Meghan concluded, alluding to the fact that this would be one of the main reasons why they became independent from the Royal Family and public life since Harry feared that "the same thing would happen again" as with his mother. Faced with this situation, the son of Prince Charles has assured Oprah that he was "desperate. "I went to all the places I thought I had to go to find help, we did it separately and together," she added. Asked by Oprah, "So you left because you asked for help and you didn't get it?", the Duke says, "Yeah, basically." Although they finally admit that they never made the decision to definitively leave the Royal Family, but to move away from the media pressure to which they were exposed. "We can take a step back, go live in a Commonwealth country, and take a breather," Meghan explained that they thought about the decision to move away from public life.
The right decision
During the talk with Oprah, Harry talks openly about how Meghan suffered and about the possibility that the Royal House will help them: "When you see that it is happening in the same way, anyone would ask for help and especially when you know that there is a relationship where you can call the doctors whenever you want. "I knew that this is always the case and we were not going to go through the same thing again," he added. He also acknowledged that when he started dating Meghan, he knew having a partner was going to turn into something big but "I never expected it to turn into a war." Even so, the grandson of Elizabeth II made the decision to separate from the Royal Family since he felt obliged to do something for Meghan's mental health, his own, and also for Archie's, who would suffer the consequences sooner or later. early. Harry explained that the main reason why they made the decision was the accumulation of everything that had happened and, in addition, "the lack of support and understanding" from the British press but also from The Firm (how they speak of the British Royal Family). When asked by Oprah if they would continue to be part of the British Royal House if they had received the necessary support, they both answer: "Without a doubt."
They took away the security
At the end of 2019, the couple decided to move to Canada, a country that is part of the Commonwealth, to continue to serve the Queen. In the interview, they assured that, after they departed from England, the security that the Royal Household normally provides to its members was denied to them. "Our main concern was that we were living in Canada, in someone else's house, when they told us that they were going to remove our security. At that time, everyone knew our exact location," Harry said, and that was when He realized that it was not safe, he had to get out of there and they decided to move to Los Angeles, where they currently live in a neighborhood with the host of the interview, Oprah Winfrey. Harry and Meghan also confessed that they wanted to have freedom and work on some projects outside the Royal Family. The need to finance a security service led some friends to propose collaborative ideas like the ones they are developing with Spotify or Netflix. "All I needed was enough money to pay for security and protect my family," Harry clarified. In addition to fulfilling their new obligations, they wanted to continue serving the Royal Family to show their support and respect for the Institution. Despite not having been able to carry out the plans they had in mind, the couple is happily waiting for the birth of their daughter, who will arrive this summer. "Harry made a decision that saved my life and saved us all," Meghan declared, referring to her departure from the United Kingdom, which gave them back the freedom they so longed for.
