The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have broken their silence about the fairy tale that marked Meghan Markle's entry into the British royal family through her marriage to the prince in 2018, and at the earliest, according to them, it became quite a nightmare.
Racism, suicidal thoughts, omission of help, disappointment, very harsh words against some Windsors and very few red lines that the dukes have not wanted to cross. The interview promised to be tough and it did not disappoint.
The most shocking revelations that portray a British royal family very active in palace intrigues and rudeness came from the mouth of the former actress, who starred alone in the first half of the interview with presenter Oprah Winfrey. The special program lasted two hours and aired in prime time on the CBS network. Meghan said that “there were concerns and conversations about how dark her skin might be when she was born” with her son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, who by birth became history as the first mixed-race Windsor.
The duchess explained that these alleged racist comments were made in "conversations that the family had" with Harry, but she refused to identify who made them. Just like her husband, she confirmed those comments when she joined the chat with the presenter but she didn't want to personalize them either: "It's a conversation I'm never going to talk about." “It was shocking,” added the son of the remembered Princess Diana of Wales.
The Duchess of Sussex, who revealed in the interview that the second child she is expecting with Harry next summer is a girl, regretted that this type of racism can continue to exist in the royal family, stressing that "the Commonwealth is a huge part of the monarchy and 60 or 70% are people of color," adding that he knows "how important it has been for them to see someone in this position who looks similar to them.
"She just didn't want to be alive anymore." The duchess also spoke about the time when her mental health worsened noticeably. It was during her first pregnancy, and it got to the point where she had to talk seriously to Harry because she was having "very clear, real and constant, scary" suicidal thoughts. As in a Déjà vu from the Netflix series The Corwn, Meghan says that she went to "one of the most senior people in the institution" and "begged him to help her" improve her mental health, but they told her "no.", that they couldn't do anything" for her.
That high rank among the Windsors ignored Meghan's requests for help: "They never did anything, so we had to find a solution." And they connect that, along with media pressure, with her resignation as working members of the British royal family, known as Megxit. According to Prince Harry, although his family "welcomed" Meghan at first, things began to change after their tour of Oceania, in which his wife's popularity became clear, as occurred with the visit to Australia. Diana of Wales, Harry's mother, in 1983. "My biggest concern was that history would repeat itself," said the prince, who was grateful to have Meghan and thus not have to go through the process "alone." of distancing himself from the monarchy, as happened to his mother.
When he joined Meghan and Oprah, Prince Harry denied another piece of information widely accepted in the media since the day of his resignation, that Queen Elizabeth was not informed of her decision to leave the monarchy. "I would never hide something like that from my grandmother, I have too much respect for her," he said, adding that they have a good relationship with the queen and speak with her on Zoom.
About Prince Charles, her daughter said that when he made the decision to start a new life he stopped "answering the phone." "I feel really disappointed, because he has gone through something similar. There has been a lot of pain," said Harry, who hoped to be able to "repair the relationship" with his father soon. Regarding his brother William, the second in line to the throne, he said that the relationship between the two now consists of giving each other "space", and that although he "loves her very much", they are now on "different paths"
