LONDON – It’s like there’s never been a bombshell interview with royalty.
Prince Charles smiled during a visit to a vaccination clinic on Tuesday.
Kensington Palace released a video of Kate, the wife of Prince William, talking to the youngest woman to row alone in the Atlantic Ocean for International Women’s Day.
The royal family’s social media account posted a message signed by Queen Elizabeth II to the community.
Buckingham Palace is silent, and British royalty continues its daily jobs two days after Prince Harry and Meghan interview with media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
“The fact that they haven’t responded yet, that they’re taking too long, is considering the best way to do that, says it all,” Roya Nikkhah, the Sunday Times’ real correspondent, told NBC’s “TODAY” program.
“It will not be an automatic reaction from Buckingham Palace. It will be a very thoughtful and thoughtful response.“
But while publicly ignored by the palace, which rarely makes statements in media reports and did not comment on Winfrey’s interview, the couple’s allegations of racism by insiders, as well as Meghan’s comments about suicidal thoughts, absorbed the nation. Almost all newspapers with national circulation spread the interview on the front pages and, in large part, published any other news, including the return of millions of children to school on Monday.
“Palace in crisis after claiming devastating racism,” says the Guardian.
“What did they do,” wrote the Daily Mail tabloid.
“The worst real crisis in 85 years,” said the Daily Mirror tabloid.
Nor did the tabloids restrain themselves from covering the interview in the newspapers, with The Sun dedicating 16 pages, plus a 12-page withdrawal for the news, while the first 25 pages of the Daily Mail covered that.
Harry has long criticized the UK press and said in a clip from the interview released on Monday that “the UK press is intolerant, specifically the tabloids”.
The Society of Editors, an industry organization that promotes press freedom, strongly rejected his comments.
“It is not acceptable for the duke and duchess to make such statements without providing any supporting evidence,” said Ian Murray, the group’s executive director, in a statement released on Monday. “If it is simply the case with the Sussex, they think that the press when questioning their actions and commenting on their roles when they worked as taxpayer-financed royalty was being racist, then they are wrong.”
Other editors disagreed, with the The Guardian editors and the HuffPost coming out against the declaration.
The crisis also attracted American politicians, including President Joe Biden’s press secretary, who was asked about Monday’s interview.
“For anyone to come forward and talk about their own struggles with mental health and tell their own personal story, that takes courage,” said press secretary Jen Psaki at a news conference. “This is certainly something the president believes in.”
we sent to climate change John Kerry he was also asked about the allegations at the BBC on Monday.
“I think we have a strength in our relationship that is much, much greater than an interview or a moment in a family, and I think it is important to put this family and the relationship we have between our countries in their proper perspective,” said Kerry, who he also praised Charles’s work on climate change.
In the United Kingdom, the monarch is the head of state. The queen and other members of the royal family spent much of the pandemic thanking health professionals and, more recently, promoting the vaccination program against Covid-19.
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Despite the monarchy’s official role, leading figures in the government refused to comment on the personal allegations.
“I spent a lot of time without commenting on the affairs of the royal family and I do not intend to depart from that today,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at a news conference on Monday.
Britain’s morning shows also covered the interview, with drama taking place on the set of “Good Morning Britain”, when co-host Piers Morgan, who often speaks negatively about Meghan, left Tuesday morning. Her co-host brought up Morgan’s long-standing personal relationship with Meghan and said, “Still, you continue to destroy her.”
The program later interviewed Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, who said he had not spoken to Meghan or Harry since their wedding in May 2018. He said he “really upset him” to see his distant daughter talk about his suicidal thoughts during his time with the royal family.
While Winfrey’s interview aired on Sunday in the United States, viewers in the UK were only able to watch it in its entirety on Monday night. Short clips and the most surprising content from the interview ran through social media and the press on Monday, with newspaper sites displaying live blogs detailing the allegations made in the interview and the local reaction.
Attitudes toward the couple in the U.S. and the UK appear to differ, with 47% of UK respondents in a YouGov survey released on Monday saying that Harry and Meghan’s interview was inappropriate, compared with 21% who they said it was. In the United States, almost the reverse was true: 44% said the couple’s interview was appropriate, while 20% said it was not.
When it comes to sympathy for the couple, 56 percent said they had nothing or didn’t have much, compared to 29 percent who said they had a lot or a reasonable amount, according to a separate UK survey by YouGov released Monday. -market.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, send the text message HOME to 741741 or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for additional resources.