Meghan Markle and Prince Harry decided to give an interview to their friend Oprah Winfrey after learning that they would be stripped of all their remaining royal ties when the terms of their royal family exit package were revised on March 31. stated Tuesday.
THE Daily Mail says sources at Buckingham Palace believe the interview, which is due to air on CBS on March 7, was organized by Meghan, 39, and Harry, 36, because the couple could “see the direction of travel” in relation to their real future roles.
THE Correspondence, whose Associated Newspapers editors last week humiliatingly missed a high-profile privacy lawsuit filed by Meghan, says the couple is now almost certain to be asked by the Queen to give up her remaining ties to any organizations that have been broadcast by real family.
Harry will have to give up his three remaining honorary military titles, as well as his leading role in leading royal support for the London Marathon. Meghan will be asked to leave the position of patron of the National Theater, but the Correspondence suggests that she can negotiate another position with them.
Interestingly, the palace seems eager to show that it is not behaving in retaliatory or vindictive form against Meghan, who is pregnant, and Harry, reporting that the move to remove the couple from their last remaining royal titles is not a reaction to the interview. The suggestion is that Harry and Meghan could just sense which way the wind was blowing and went out in front of him.
The Daily Beast understands that Buckingham Palace was not informed of the interview in advance, but courtiers sought to lessen any complaints on Monday night, with sources saying that as the couple was no longer working as royalty, any decisions made regarding “media commitments are issues for them,” and that they “were under no obligation” to inform the palace about their plans.
Although it is unlikely to have as strong an impact on royalty as Prince Andrew’s 2019 interview with News night and Princess Diana’s 1995 bombshell interview with Panorama, there is likely to be some dread about what Meghan may reveal in the interview. The palace is considered particularly nervous about possible allegations of racism or sexism and the adjustment of “old accounts”, The times reports.
Meghan and Harry sitting with Winfrey is not, however, an unexpected development.
The talk show host attended the couple’s wedding in 2018, having met Meghan only once, and has been courting the couple assiduously since then.
In 2019, it was announced that she and Harry were working together on a mental health documentary and Winfrey was also photographed visiting Meghan’s mother, Doria, at her Los Angeles home. They live close to each other in Montecito and Winfrey used his influence on social media to publicize a brand of coffee drinks that Meghan has invested in.
A source told the Correspondence that the next meeting with Winfrey was “one of the most inevitable and, unfortunately, predictable consequences” of the couple’s departure from the royal family.