Meghan and Meghan: A Big Moment in the Life of a Queen and an Example of Female Leadership – The Case of Meghan and Prince Philip
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has opened up about the loss of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and the “legacy” she has left behind, describing her husband’s grandmother as “the most shining example” of female leadership.
The couple thought the Queen’s aides were not good enough but again praised the late monarch, who died aged 96 in September.
The duchess had been due to be honored in the 2022 class of Variety’s Power of Women for both her philanthropic and creative work – including the podcast she hosts, “Archetypes.” The original interview was conducted ahead of that, but the duchess spoke with the magazine again following the Queen’s death.
I am thankful that I was able to get to know her and spend time with her. It’s been a complicated time, but my husband, ever the optimist, said, ‘Now she’s reunited with her husband’.” Prince Philip, the husband of the Queen, died last year at the age of 99.
In a big moment in life, you get a lot of perspective, and that’s what happened to the family. It makes you wonder what is the most important thing in your life. Right now, we feel energized and excited about all of the things we’ve been building toward. We are focused on our foundation as well. The philanthropic space is part of the work we do.
It’s good for them. When Harry was a spare sibling, his sympathy may have been due to being the one who was in line for the throne. Harry and Meghan quit the royal family amid complaints that they preferred a private life as “regular people,” no longer wanting the media attention that came with being royals, including being tabloid fodder. In an excerpt from an upcoming interview, Harry told ITV: “I want a family. Not an institution.”
In-n-Out and the Princesses of Kensington and Chelsea, and The Crown in the Fifth Season of The Crown (by Peter Morgan)
My husband likes in-n-out. There’s one at the halfway point between L.A. and our neck of the woods. It’s exciting to surprise them at the drive-thru. She said that they knew their order.
When asked if the biggest misconception about her is that she’s not smart, the royal replied that she thinks that when there is this much noise, you become dehumanized. If you recall that a person is a human being, you don’t treat them differently and look at them the same.
The fifth season of The Crown arrives two months after Queen Elizabeth II passed away, and there are still many unanswered questions about the show. The result is an uneven campaign that reinforces a sense the Emmy-winning series risks extending its reign too long.
In 1991, the season begins, so there is the chance that Elizabeth will retain her title for another three decades, and Charles will badly hurt his public image thanks to the fact that his marriage to Diana was not a good one. The character fares less well in terms of emotional insights, since she’s portrayed less sympathetically this time around, at least in her naivete about the hell that speaking publicly about the Royal Family would unleash.
John Major, who is the new Prime Minister, understands the dynamics of what is happening better than the other players, which makes his role much more uncomfortable for him.
The friendship between Prince Philip andPenny Knatchbull, the wife of Philip, is explored in the 10 episodes by Peter Morgan.
It is Philip that chide Diana for failing to understand the institution she married into, reminding her that it is not a family. It’s a system.”
The upper lips remain incredibly stiff, even under the most trying of circumstances. When Charles privately tells his mother in regard to Diana, “I’ve done as you asked, mummy. I’ve tried to make it work,” she responds tartly that “Being happily married is a preference rather than a requirement.”
The casting remains a gaudy flex at almost every level –Timothy Dalton even shows up in a small but significant cameo – and for those who can’t get enough Royal gossip, Morgan again makes the audience privy to his version of what unfolded behind closed doors, such as Charles and Diana quietly chatting after finalizing their divorce.
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have taken aim at “unconscious bias” inside the royal family and defended their decision to quit the institution, as their highly anticipated Netflix documentary series threatens to deepen the split between the couple and Buckingham Palace.
The first three episodes of the project are called “Harry & Meg” and were released on Thursday.
At various points in the documentary series, Harry describes ways in which Meghan reminds him of his mother, a woman known for being open, caring and empathic. He believes that he sealed his fate as a outsider to his royal relatives by casting his lot with Diana andMeghan.
Buckingham and Kensington Palaces will likely be braced for the fallout from the series, after sustained tensions between Harry and his father, King Charles, and brother, Prince William.
It’s difficult to look back on it now, what happened? In the first episode, Harry asked how he and his wife ended up here.
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He said he became worried about the safety of his family because of the intrusion of the media.
Some people may accuse Harry of invading the family’s privacy without permission, but he says that is not true.
The first few episodes were a deep dive into how each of them got together and what it was like to be a royal. There were few bombshells about individual family members. The first episode featured a couple attacked by the media and a group of experts and friends to support them.
It marks a first major public relations test for the monarchy under King Charles III, who himself has been tacitly criticized by Harry since their split from the family, and whose relationship with his son has frayed.
Buckingham Palace will not speak on Thursday about the documentary. King Charles and his consort, the Queen consort, will travel to London to visit a community kitchen and attend a Christmas service with the Prince of Wales and other members of the family.
The couple have spoken before about the constraints placed on them while members of the royal family, and that frustration re-emerged repeatedly in the documentary.
Since their wedding in 2018, Harry and Meghan’s relationship has been under intense media scrutiny, with particular focus placed on the Duchess of Sussex.
“The lies, that’s one thing. You get used to it when you live in a family. The effect it was having on her was enough. Enough of the pain, enough of the suffering.”
“I said the difference here is the race element,” Harry added. The pair have frequently railed against racist undertones in tabloid coverage of Meghan, who is biracial.
“These are the skeletons in the closet that frequently make an unwelcome appearance in daily life in this family – sometimes, you know, you’re part of the problem rather than part of the solution and there is a huge level of unconscious bias,” Harry said.
“The thing with unconscious bias – it is actually no one’s fault. He said that once it has been pointed out, or identified within yourself, you should make it right.
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Elsewhere in the first batch of episodes, Harry commented on some previous marriages among his relatives and ancestors. “I think for so many people in the family, especially the men, there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit the mold as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with,” he said.
“They were surprised … the fact that I was dating an American actress was probably what clouded their judgement more than anything else at the beginning,” he added. The actress thing was the biggest problem.
Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, stepped back from royal duties and moved to California, alleging racist attacks by Britain’s tabloid media. Harry’s criticism of the media was tinged with anger over the way the press treated his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car accident in 1997 while being followed by photographers. The couple’s new life in America has been funded by lucrative contracts with Netflix and Spotify.
“I remember thinking, how can I ever find someone who is willing and capable to be able to withstand all the baggage that comes with being with me?” he said.
The breakdown of her relationship with her father was explained by a controversy about whether he staged a series of photographs in the build-up to their wedding.
“Of course, it’s incredibly sad what happened – she had a father before this and now she doesn’t have a father. And I shouldered that because if Meg wasn’t with me then her dad would still be her dad,” Harry said.
“I want a family, not an institution”: Prince Harry’s remarks on the first three episodes of the CNN’s Royal News series
The first three episodes were released on Thursday, and more will be released next week. Interviews were completed in August, the month before the Queen died.
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The royal family is bracing for more revelations about Prince Harry and his relationship with the woman he’s marrying on Thursday, when the first three episodes of their series are released.
Prince William said after the interview, “We’re very much not a racist family.”
But Buckingham Palace faced renewed allegations of racism only last week when a Black advocate for survivors of domestic abuse said a senior member of the royal household interrogated her about her origins during a reception at the palace. Coverage of the issue filled British media, overshadowing William and his wife Kate’s much-anticipated visit to Boston, which the palace had hoped would highlight their environmental credentials.
The program will be watched carefully in the U.K., where even the teasers were criticized for offering misleading images to back up the emotive narration alleging misogyny, unfair media treatment and racism.
In one section of the footage, clips of paparazzi are spliced together with old footage of Princess Diana being followed by the media as Harry says in a voiceover: “The pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution, this feeding frenzy. Is that true? I was terrified, I didn’t want history to repeat itself.”
However, one of the clips used to illustrate his words appears to show reporters and photographers waiting for TV star Katie Price arriving outside Crawley Magistrates Court, Sky News reported.
Prince Harry is also expected to go into greater detail about his life in and out of the Royal Family in an upcoming television interview with British network ITV, in which he has said, “I want a family, not an institution.”
That is followed by a picture of a photographer posing for a picture next to a balcony, as Harry and his wife walk with their son down below. While the scene suggests the photographer was covertly snapping pictures of a private moment, the photo actually shows an accredited press photographer who was covering the couple’s meeting with Desmond Tutu in 2019.
In short, Harry and Meghan are not villains, nor are they trying to tear down the royal family. In the language of today, they are speaking their truth, as unpleasant as it might be, judging from the reaction of some critics.
The BBC and the Daily Telegraph, one of Britain’s most influential newspapers, picked up on this theme in their coverage of William and Kate’s three-day trip to Boston, where they handed out environmental prizes, met with anti-violence campaigners and went to a basketball game.
The right and left in Britain have very little in common these days. The new series “Harry &Meghan” is quickly shaping up to be the exception.
The first three episodes of the docuseries, directed by Liz Garbus and produced in conjunction with the production company of Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, were quickly skewered by a bipartisan group of critics, from The Sun to The Guardian. Although “skewered” may not actually capture the harshness of some of the commentary.
Piers Morgan, who has been critical of the couple in the past, does not waste any time in his review of the series in The Sun.
The Real World’s Best Victims: A Tale of Two Princes, One for the Whole Family and One For Them & One For the Rest
Who are the world’s biggest victims right now? You might think it’s the poor people of Ukraine as they’re bombed, shot and raped by Putin’s invading barbarians. The Covid epidemic continues to cause widespread death and long-term illness in those that have been ruined by it. Millions are struggling in a devastating cost-of-living crisis.
But no. The world’s biggest victims are the unbelievably rich, stupendously wealthy, rotten and entitled Prince Harry and his fiancée, the gorgeous yoga enthusiast and yoga teacher, who is known as the epitome of elegance and style.
Morgan cautions viewers in his review that they may need a sick bucket. He was not the only one to evoke gastrointestinal distress. The first three episodes were so sickening I almost brought up my breakfast, according to the headline for Lucy’s review in the Guardian.
Mangan does point out that the series so far has plenty of sweet moments — particularly of Prince Harry and Meghan “being charming and funny together” — but she ultimately finds the finished product wanting:
When a person marrying in, who should be a supporting act, is then doing better job than someone born to do this, that upsets people. Prince Harry said that it shifted the balance. Going further, he described how the various palace press offices “end up working against each other.”
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Editor’s Note: Dr. Peggy Drexler is a research psychologist, documentary film producer and author, including two books about gender and family and the forthcoming “Mean,” a book about women behaving badly, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2024. Her movie, “King Coal,” will premiere at the festival in three years. Her opinions are reflected in this commentary. View more opinion on CNN.
But who’s to say that people haven’t gotten a glimpse of who they are? What makes their version a more honest version of themselves than any other versions they have ever seen? The series has a different version of events that function as their own version of real life. When she first got to knowHarry, she wanted to review his social media posts as a way to get to know him, and social media posts comprise a significant portion of the archive that guides their narrative together.
The series has a lot of the same content we have already seen and heard, so it is disappointing. There are new aspects, like friends who have never commented and photos that we have never seen, but they aren’t likely to change people’s minds. It’s self-promotional, self-aggrandizing and, frankly, a little boring. They don’t come off as much likeable and it’s a lot less so. It may be the first time that much of the dislike is directed toward Harry.
He’s also not a victim, nor blameless. While much has been said about how the union went on, it is clear that he was wounded by the defection and went looking for someone who could help him separate from his family. The woman that he found was anambitious and outspoken woman who had an ambition to be an actress and had a family life that included disagreements with her half-sister and her father.
The Windsors, Real Estate, and Gas Lighting: Predictions for the Next Three Episodes of the Prince and Duchess Docuseries
Are you ready for round two? The final three episodes of the docuseries from the Duke and duchess are to be released on Thursday.
The project was the largest documentary debut on the platform when it was launched, after months of rumors and speculation.
The streamer hyped the series as a global event and also teased it as a tell-all about Prince Harry and other royals leaving the monarchy in 2020.
However, these next three episodes may be a harder watch for the Windsor clan. The trailers released this week will surely have raised some red flags in the royal household.
A friend of the couple says unfavorable stories about them were leaked to the press in order to bury stories about other members of the royal family.
You would just see what happens. They would take a story about someone in the family and make it go away. There is real estate on a website, there is real estate on the front cover of a newspaper, and something needs to be said about someone royal.
Meghan previously said she felt like she’d been “fed to the wolves,” in a trailer released earlier this week. Elsewhere in that clip, Harry hit out at “institutional gaslighting” and appeared to accuse the palace of being comfortable with protecting Prince William but not his own family.
“It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father say things that just simply weren’t true, and my grandmother quietly sit there and take it all in,” he said, recalling the conversations with William, then-Prince Charles, and the late Queen Elizabeth II.
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Harry said he initially asked for a “half in, half out” arrangement, where Harry and Meghan would have their own jobs but still work in support of the Queen, during a crunch family meeting. “But it became very clear very quickly that that goal was not up for discussion or debate,” Harry said.
You should understand that there are ways to do things, especially from the family’s perspective. And her ultimate mission and goal, responsibility, is the institution … she’s going to go on the advice that she’s given,” Harry said.
“The issue is when someone who’s marrying in, who should be a supporting act is then stealing the limelight or is doing the job better than the person who is born to do this. That upsets people. It shifts the balance,” Harry said.
That upsets people. It upsets the balance. You were told that you have to be on the front pages of those newspapers if you want your charity to succeed and grow.
In a recent Netflix documentary, Harry blamed the media for placing undue stress on Meghan, leading to her having a miscarriage and suffering suicidal thoughts.
She told the filmmakers that she believed that all of this would stop if she weren’t here. It was clear thinking, it was the scariest thing about it.
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In the fifth episode, she said she did everything she could to make them proud, and that she was a part of the family. The bubble burst.
She knew we were hard to find. I’d spoken to her many times about it,” Harry said. But as the meeting approached, Meghan said they received a message from an aide telling them they were not allowed to see the monarch.
If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 to connect with a trained counselor or visit the NSPL site. The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide also provide contact information for crisis centers around the world.
These latest installments see Harry detail rifts with his relatives, the toll the last few years has taken on the couple and their new life in California.
The press attacks, lack of vigilance from the palace, and the couple’s suspicions that the royal household was actually feeding the media pushed him to a dark place.
Doria Ragland, Meghan’s mother, recounted how her daughter told her she had thought about taking her own life after being constantly “picked at by these vultures” in the media.
She was remarking on an interview a few years back in which a reporter had simply asked her, “Are you OK?” Her response made the news and made her cry, because she had not asked if she was ok.
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A narrative developed that the couple were being selfish for not doing a traditional photo call shortly after the birth of a royal baby, and Harry remembers seeing a post on social media of a couple walking either side of a chimpanzee alongside the caption: “Royal baby leaves hospital.”
Harry said that the seriousness of what has happened to her needs to be acknowledged.
In a preview clip of the interview released Monday, the Duke of Sussex said, “They’ve shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile,” presumably referring to the Royal Family.
In this Netflix episode, Harry claims he was not aware of the statement. “No one had asked me permission to put my name to a statement like that,” he said.
So, do we know the cause of the miscarriage? We don’t. I think it’s because of how much stress she was under, how little sleep she had, how long she was pregnant, and the fact that they were trying to cause her to miscarry.
Harry said it took reporters six weeks to find out that the couple had moved into director and screenwriter Tyler Perry’s home in Hollywood, before eventually publishing the location of their new home.
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Harry said that the poles are designed to stop photographers from taking pictures from a few hundred meters away. It is absurd, and you have to laugh about it.
When Archie and Lilibet were born in the US, he only spent five months in the UK, according to Harry.
Looking for freedom from his family’s longstanding and very public dysfunction, Harry has found it with his American wife Meghan and their two children. The independence of the Sussexes was claimed in a very unroyal way.
The episodes were back in the year after Prince Harry married a woman. The pair reminisced about fond memories such as when Prince Charles stepped in to escort her down the aisle after helping with musical arrangements ahead of the big day
There were more forceful episodes with few real revelations last week. The picture Harry painted of the royal family was not very flattering. The environment that he presented was one where household employees were distrust and unsympathetic to their experiences.
If I’m not here, all of this will stop. And that was the scariest thing about it, it was such clear thinking,” she recalled, elaborating on the suicidal ideations she first raised while speaking to Oprah last year. The media intrusion is one of the reasons why Harry’s wife had a miscarriage in 2020.
Unlike last week, this batch of episodes saw Harry and Meghan target specific members of the family, with the duke recalling his brother losing his temper during a crucial crunch summit at Sandringham as they discussed the couple’s long-term future.
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He said that part of his responsibility was the survivability and the continuation of the institution, which was already ingrained in him.
When there are only two brothers the sibling rivalry is even more intense. Most aren’t actually born into families with hierarchies that remind them of where they came from. But brotherly discord has existed throughout time, inspiring countless works of art in all spheres (most of them tragedies). Harry is one of the commonest dramas of human nature.
“I’ve had to make peace with the fact that we’re probably never going to get genuine accountability or a genuine apology,” he said toward the end of the final episode. We are moving on and focused on what’s next.
Ultimately, the couple blame the media for the challenges and pressures they faced as working royals. We now understand that they felt that the palace could have done more to stop the abuse they experienced, challenged the media, and prioritized family members before the institution.
The family has clearly chosen not to give oxygen to the docuseries. That might be their best hope of ending this very public row in the short term. It will be a part of the nation’s memory thanks to the Sussexes’ version of events.
It is more than just a tabloid. It’s not just some story. You are making me scared…. That is true. Are my babies safe? So you created it for something? Because you are bored or because it sells your papers?… and that’s the piece I don’t think people fully understand.”
Sophia Nelson is an author and journalist who wrote a new book, “Be the One You Need: 21 LifeLessons I Learned Taking Care of Everyone but Me.” The views expressed in this commentary are not of hers. There are more opinions on CNN.
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A media organization in the UK conceded last year that there was a lot of work to be done on issues related to race. That statement was issued amid an outcry from journalists of color over the unflattering coverage that Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, received in the aftermath of their famous sit down with Oprah Winfrey. The current uproar over the new series on Netflix suggests that the media’s work in confronting this bias is still incomplete.
But the decidedly chilly reception that the Duchess of Sussex received as a “mixed-race” American divorcee – one of the major through lines of the six-part series in which she and Harry bare their souls – wasn’t really the main point of the project.
I “get” Harry and Meghan. I’ve experienced some of the very same lessons in my own sometimes tumultuous, dysfunctional family, which is why I wrote my latest book, “Be the One You Need: 21 Life Lessons I Learned Taking Care of Everyone but Me.” I find it fascinating that many people seem to know nothing about family reunification and break-ups in today’s world.
When people around you don’t seem to care if you survive, but also seem to be secretly trying to keep you out of trouble, that’s a vivid lesson in looking after yourself. And it provides an in-depth window into surviving familial conflict, navigating outsize personalities and cavernous gulfs dividing close relatives. It can be especially hard if you are trapped in a system that does very little to aid you in maintaining a sense of integrity.
At least, that’s the plot line that resonates most for me, because I have lived aspects of their story, although on a much more modest scale. In fact, my guess is that many of the millions of people who have watched the series can relate. We have learned over the years that no matter how much you want to repair a broken relationship, you have to know how to take care of yourself.
The Sussexes both experienced unhappiness in childhood because of divorce. She describes a lonely childhood shuttling between her mother’s and father’s homes.
The second son, born to Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997, was shown to Britain as a perfect, solemn member of the royal family by marching behind his mom’s coffin. It is a lot to ask of a child.
I was surprised to see that people were shocked by the fact that the royal couple had already exposed their dirty laundry about the workings of the royal family.
If it comes adorned with a tiara and is carried in a golden carriage, the generation doesn’t want to be hamstrung by the strictures of tradition. When they spill the tea, they do so in videos and on social media.
They gave us insights into the toll of being a new Duchess, that is why they went viral. They were also eerily reminiscent of remarks made by a young Princess Diana, who in a now infamous BBC interview described how she too had been hung out to dry in a family that does not always warmly welcome outsiders who marry into their ranks.
One irony raised by various subjects during the series, is that the royals had a golden opportunity to truly embrace and protect both Harry and Meghan – and use their unique love story, their star power and their readiness to confront outdated traditions to modernize the 1,000-year-old institution.
Meghan might have been the very addition to the family who could have helped build a bridge to the next generation of Britons – and to the overwhelmingly Black and brown inhabitants of Britain’s Commonwealth nations. It’s an opportunity that has been squandered.
The series showed the footage and the images don’t lie. Even the young royals, Kate and William, received a chilly reception in majority-Black Jamaica this year, as the island contemplates exiting the Commonwealth. It also showed William’s father King Charles III – at the time still Prince of Wales – sitting stony-faced in Barbados, as that Caribbean island ended its membership in the body.
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But the problem with wielding that kind of control is that it can work against your own interests. In one of the early episodes, Meghan discusses being biracial and says, “People don’t talk about what it’s like to be mixed race.” I was so perplexed by the statement that I turned on the captions and went back to be sure I heard her correctly. Being biracial or multiracial is not a new topic of discussion. How would she not know that? How could no one protect her from such a wildly inaccurate statement?
Given that there aren’t many grand revelations in “Harry & Megan,” it seems clear that the Sussexes made this project, in large part, because they needed the money. A prince is accustomed to a certain lifestyle. Security details can cost a lot. The mortgage needs to be paid. Exiled from the royal family, the Sussexes know that their story is, for now, their most valuable asset. When you’ve been misunderstood and maligned, you want nothing more than for people to know the truth as you’ve experienced it. If people know every last detail, you wrongly believe they will empathise with your suffering. Alas.
In a clip released Monday, Cooper asked Prince Harry about the criticism aimed at him and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, regarding their decision to step back from their royal duties, but air their grievances about what led to the move publicly.
He said that there have been briefings and leaks of stories against him and his wife. “You know, the family motto is ‘Never complain, never explain.’ It’s just a motto.”
“I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back,” he told journalist Tom Bradby in the clip of the interview, which is due to air on ITV1 on Sunday, January 8.
The Guardian article notes that Prince Harry allegedly argued with Meghan during an altercation at the London High School in July 2004: “Sorry, Meghan!”
The article states that William told Harry to hit back but he didn’t. William left but later returned “looking regretful” and apologized, according to the Guardian article, quoting the book.
The UK newspaper has claimed to have seen a copy of Prince Harry’s book, Spare, which includes allegations of William knocking him to the floor during an altercation.
The alleged scuffle took place after a conversation between the two brothers, during which William, the heir to the British throne, called Meghan “difficult,” “rude” and “abrasive,” according to The Guardian.
CNN has requested an advance copy of the book from publisher Penguin Random House. CNN sought comment on the alleged altercation from the royal families but they declined the request.
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Harry says that he was called another name before he came at him. It all happened so quickly. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.”
In the same report, Harry recollects returning to the UK for the first time since stepping back as a senior royal in April 2021 to attend Prince Philip’s funeral.
Since he and his wife spoke to Oprah Winfrey, the duke had not seen his father, King Charles III, nor William in years.
Harry’s retelling suggests tensions with William remained high and quotes Charles pleading to his sons not to “make my final years a misery,” according to the Guardian article.
In the latest preview clip of the ITV sit-down released Thursday, Harry says he “still believe[s] in the monarchy” but when asked if he anticipates playing a part in its future, he replies, “I don’t know.”
“There’s a lot that can happen between now and then,” Harry says in the short clip. The door is always open. They have the ball in their court. There’s a lot to be discussed and I really hope that they’re willing to sit down and talk about it.”
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/europe/prince-harry-book-prince-william-physical-attack-intl-hnk/index.html
Harry, Meghan, and the High Road: A Memorino with a Pseudosaic Harry and Oprah Winfrey
Meghan said she wanted to go somewhere for help but claimed she wasn’t allowed to because of concerns about how it would look for the institution, without specifying who she believes stopped her. She made similar comments in her explosive 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Through these disclosures, what we’re seeing is a little brother desperate to fight back against a lifetime of feeling inferior, but doing so in the dirtiest way possible. It seems to be pathetic.
Both Harry and William will not be king. William is unknown if that is something he wants, or if he will fulfill it out of sheer patriotic and familial duty. That’s because William is taking the high road of silence. Isn’t it ironic that there’s more to know about the couple who left than the couple who stayed?
While we can, and should, have some disdain for how Harry has chosen to approach his life circumstances, it’s also possible to have some compassion for him — and understanding. He did not completely create himself. And, sheltered and uber-privileged as he was for much of his upbringing, he is likely a fairly immature 38 year old.
He has been pushed back against the machine that made him who he is today, and it is the only way he knows how to live his life on his own. He has made an enormous amount of money selling his family’s assets and is now benefiting from it.