Prince Harry and Meghan interview: The world waits for a bomb made for TV

Prince Harry and Meghan interview: The world waits for a bomb made for TV

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The prime-time event, which will air Sunday night in the United States, has been ruthlessly promoted by the CBS network and threatens to lift the lid on a litany of frustrations and complaints from the couple against the institution they abandoned last year.

“I don’t know how they could expect that, after all this time, we would still be silent if there was an active role that the firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us,” Meghan said in an already released clip, suggesting that she is ready to escalate a war of words between her and the family she married.

It has long been speculated by the insatiable British tabloid press that Meghan felt restrained by the palace before and after she married Harry in 2018, that the pair had a fight with some of their relatives, and that their decision to step away from their roles caused a major feud with the rest of the clan.

These theories they will certainly be investigated in the interview, giving viewers a first official account after years of intrigue in the palace.

“It is really liberating to be able to have the right and the privilege of some ways to say yes” to the interview, Meghan said in a preview, discussing restrictions on her speaking to the media while working for royalty. “I mean … I’m ready to talk.”

The interview is expected to attract millions of viewers on Sunday.

A unique challenge for the Palace

When the sun rises in the UK on Monday, the public will have a new perspective from the former royalty on the palace’s machinations.

This week there was a frenzy of stories citing unidentified sources and real commentators, but the palace adhered to its usual protocol of silence in the face of speculative reports surrounding the broadcast.

However, it announced on Wednesday that it would investigate allegations that Meghan bullied team members, allegations made anonymously in a British newspaper that the Sussex spokesman dismissed as “a calculated smear campaign”.

“It is no coincidence that distorted accusations of several years aimed at undermining the Duchess are being reported to the British media shortly before she and the Duke have spoken openly and honestly about their experience in recent years,” the statement added on Wednesday. .

Harry and Meghan: from royal romance to the division of the palace

On Sunday morning, the front pages of several British newspapers focused on the impending broadcast, with some news that the Queen would not be watching. The Mail on Sunday featured on its front page a real source speaking under the public’s interest in the program – but dedicated 11 pages to preview the interview.

Everything falls at an already tense moment for royalty, with Prince Philip, the queen’s 99-year-old husband, spending a third week in the hospital, having undergone a cardiac procedure on Thursday.

But royalty probably knows the story of the impact that the televised show could have. The palace finds a bomb that tells everything on TV about once a generation; a 1970 interview with abdicated King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson posed problems for the palace, 25 years before Princess Diana’s “Panorama” confessional was attended by tens of millions in Britain.

What makes the Sussexes’ conversation so unique is their continued proximity to the monarchy – Harry is still sixth in line to the throne – and their unshakable popularity, which they have already begun to negotiate for lectures and supposedly lucrative media deals.

But their moves so far make it clear that the members of the palace are not their only targets. The duo will likely save their harshest words for the British tabloid media, which has haunted them tirelessly for years.

“We all know what the British press can be like … and it was destroying my mental health,” Harry told James Corden in a TV appearance last month. “I was like, ‘This is toxic’, so I did what any husband and father would do: I need to get my family out of here.”
The couple in one of their last royal engagements last year.

The couple fought in several lawsuits against publications and photo agencies that published details of their private lives.

Earlier this year, Meghan won a privacy claim against the editors of Mail on Sunday, after they published a letter she sent to her father, and sent a scathing rebuke to “dehumanizing” media organizations after the verdict, saying the “damage that they did and continue to do runs deep.”

“It’s been incredibly difficult for both of us, but at least we had each other,” Harry told Winfrey in another promotional clip, drawing parallels between their experience and that of his mother, Princess Diana, who was also exiled from royalty in 1990s.

The door was closed on a potential return for the duo as royalty earlier this year.

But even that announcement was fraught with tension; Harry and Meghan’s statement that “service is universal” was widely seen as a censorship of the Palace’s events, after the Queen confirmed that “by departing from the work of the Royal Family, it is not possible to continue with the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service. “

However, the conversation means that they can begin the task of recovering the narrative about their real division, finally free to make media commitments of their choice and sculpt their new lives as celebrity activists.

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