London – The front pages of British newspapers were dominated on Monday by Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, despite the fact that the majority of the British public has not yet been able to watch it. The interview was broadcast in the UK on Monday evening at 9 pm local time.
“It was everything we expected – not what we expected,” wrote Camilla Tominey in the conservative British newspaper Telegraph. “Make no mistake, this was a pregnant woman blaming the institution – and those inside her – for not helping at its lowest point.”
“Whatever the royal family expected from this interview, it was worse,” wrote Valentine Low in an opinion article in The Times, another right-wing publication.
But while part of Britain’s right-wing press criticized the royal couple during the interview, especially considering the timing of their transmission while the prince’s grandfather, Prince Philip is in the hospital, the BBC’s royal correspondent said the meeting with Oprah, he “reversed the narrative created by Britain’s best-selling newspapers.”
The UK’s best-selling newspapers, including The Sun and the Daily Mail tabloids, have published several negative stories about Meghan since her relationship with Harry went public.
With the interview, BBC correspondent Jonny Dymond said that Harry and Meghan “revealed the terrible tensions within the palace. They drew insensitive individuals lost in an indifferent institution. They spoke of racism within the royal family. That was a devastating interview.”
A member of Britain’s shadow opposition cabinet said the palace, which recently announced that it was investigating allegations that Meghan intimidated former employees, should also examine her allegations of racism during the interview.
“I would expect them to be treated by the palace with the utmost seriousness and fully investigated,” Shadow Education secretary Kate Green told Sky News.
Afua Hirsch, author of the book “Brit (ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging”, wrote in an article at the time in New York that “Meghan’s treatment proved what many of us have always known: as beautiful as you are it is, who you marry, what palaces you occupy, the charities you support, how faithful you are, how much money you accumulate or what good deeds you practice, in this society racism will still follow you. “
Left-wing commentator Owen Jones said: “Meghan Markle’s interview not only exposed the truth about the monarchy, a shadowy institution shrouded in secrecy despite supposedly incorporating the nation. It is currently exposing everyone who doesn’t care about racism or suicide.”
Piers Morgan, co-anchor of one of Britain’s most-watched morning shows, questioned the context of the conversation about the color of the skin that Meghan described, suggesting that it may not have been racist.
His guest, TV presenter Trisha Goddard, said: “What bothers me is why everyone is so adept at racism against blacks? I’m sorry, Piers, you can’t say what racism is and what it isn’t. black people. “
Nadine White, a racial correspondent for Britain’s Independent newspaper, wrote on Twitter: “The worst real crisis since the abdication of 1936 … and racism is undeniably at the center … As long as we are here, we will normalize reporting on race. in the media! “