Am Montag wird das Gespräch von Oprah Winfrey mit Herzogin Meghan Markle und Prinz Harry um 13.50 Uhr und um 21.10 Uhr auch auf ORF 1 ausgestrahlt.
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London, Los Angeles – From dream wedding to royal mud fight in less than three years: Meghan and Harry’s TV interview threatens to tear up the British royal family. The atmosphere between the couple, now living in the USA, and the royal family seems poisoned. Queen Elizabeth II (94) is said to have only found out about the conversation between her grandson Prince Harry (36) and his wife Duchess Meghan (39) with star presenter Oprah Winfrey through the announcement of the US broadcaster CBS.
The queen will ignore the interview and the “circus” and instead concentrate on her obligations, quoted the Sunday Times Palace sources. But advisors are ready to “return the favor with new revelations about the couple’s behavior when the monarchy is attacked”. In the days before, information was passed on again and again. So reported the telegraph, The Audit Bureau Charity Commission is scrutinizing the couple’s charity, Sussex Royal, which Meghan and Harry closed after their royal exit.
Meghan under attack
Above all, the ex-actress comes under increasing fire. Even renowned papers cited with relish alleged misconduct and extravagant special requests of the Duchess of Sussex in the royal family. There is also an ubiquitous anecdote that Harry is said to have yelled “What Meghan wants, Meghan also gets” through the palace corridors when she was refused a special piece of jewelry for the wedding. “The hostage” has been called the Queen’s grandson since his relationship with Meghan in the palace, can be read.
“You don’t even have to be a royals fan to feel like a part of our lives is being torn apart,” wrote columnist Camilla Long in the Sunday Times. The queen let herself be demonstrated by a “lightweight”. “It’s just wrong.” Criticism came in many places because the couple pulled through the interview broadcast while Harry’s grandfather, Queen husband Prince Philip (99), is in the hospital. Buckingham Palace recently added fuel to the fire when it announced it would investigate allegations of bullying against Meghan.
Racism allegations against the royal family
“Team Sussex” against the “company”, as the royal family is called: The opponents face each other in the corners of the ring, seemingly irreconcilable. The dispute almost seems like a national matter. From Meghan’s home USA, where the couple now lives with son Archie (1), the Sussexes receive support against the allegations from Great Britain. Meghan’s ex-colleague Patrick J. Adams (39), who played with her for several years in the US lawyer series “Suits”, criticized in several tweets that it was “obscene” that the royal family was promoting and reinforcing the allegations of bullying .
The TV presenter Meghan McCain accused the royal family of racism. “We can’t ignore the elephant in the room,” said former presidential candidate John McCain’s daughter. There is a “racist aspect”. “There is a lot of racism going on against (Meghan) in many different ways. It threatens a lot of people,” McCain said. Several commentators accused the royal family of double standards for having launched an investigation against Meghan, but not for the involvement of Queen’s son Prince Andrew in the abuse scandal involving the deceased businessman Jeffrey Epstein.
The mood is poisoned. Even before the broadcast, observers in London will see the conversation in a series of memorable interviews. When Prince Charles confessed his infidelities in 1994, when Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, spoke in 1995 about her broken marriage to the heir to the throne – those were hard blows for the royal family. But this interview could shake the monarchy to its very foundations, I heard. The central question in advance was whether Meghan and Harry would attack members of the royal family by name. “Any criticism of a royal will be perceived as an attack on the entire House of Windsor,” wrote the news agency PA.
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It is hard to imagine in London that Harry, who has always been said to have a very good relationship with his grandmother, the Queen, will actually tear all bridges to his family. Of the Sunday Telegraph reported that Harry’s brother Prince William and his wife Duchess Kate were hoping for a reconciliation. “There will always be humps in the street, but they are a family and families survive these things,” the paper quoted an unnamed friend.
However, the advance clips, which the US broadcaster CBS released tactically, do not give a good idea. In it, questioner Winfrey says to Meghan, who is pregnant with her second child: “You said some shocking things.” In Great Britain, the conversation will only be broadcast on Monday evening, the ITV station is said to have paid one million pounds (1.16 million euros) for it. The conversation will also be broadcast on ORF 1 on Monday at 1:50 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. (APA / dpa)