Oprah Winfrey will interview Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on CBS on Sunday night in their first interview since they retired from royal duties and since they announced they were pregnant with their second childIn a preview of CBS ‘Oprah with Meghan And Harry: A Primetime Special, Meghan blamed the British Royal Family of actively encouraging lies about her.
Asked by Oprah how she feels about the palace hearing her talk about life in the royal bubble, Meghan replied: ‘The Firm’ plays in perpetuating falsehoods about us. “The Firm” is a common nickname for the royal family.
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CBS News has confirmed the allegations first reported by The Times of London afterwards Meghan married Harry in 2018 and moved into the royal family, unnamed staff members accused her of “emotional cruelty and manipulation,” forcing two aides to quit.
In a rare move, Buckingham Palace issued a public response, saying on Wednesday that it was “clearly very concerned about allegations in The Times” and that its staff team will “investigate the circumstances described in the article.”
“You could probably only describe that relationship between the two sides as an all-out war,” Royal Correspondent Roya Nikkhah of Sunday Times told CBS News. The couple’s interview with Oprah was taped two weeks ago, before the allegations went public.
In another preview of the interview, Harry said his “main concern was that history would repeat itself,” a clear reference to his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. His parents divorced in 1996 after a long – and very public – split. She died in a car accident a year later after being chased by the paparazzi. Harry was 12 years old when she died.
“You know, for me, I’m just really relieved and glad to be sitting here talking to you, with my wife by my side,” Harry said. ‘Because I can’t imagine what life must have been like for her, going through this process on her own all those years ago. Because it’s been incredibly difficult for the two of us – but at least we had each other. ”
Harry James Corden told in February that he thinks the British press is “poisonous”.
“We all know what the British press can be like, and it destroyed my mental health … I thought, ‘This is toxic,’ ‘Prince Corden told CBS in an interview that aired The Late Late Show.” ‘So I did what any husband and father would do – was like,’ I have to get my family out of here. ‘ ‘
Harry and Meghan’s interview comes when his grandfather, 99-year-old Prince Philip, has been in hospital for more than two weeks. On Thursday, Buckingham Palace said it did successfully undergo surgery for a pre-existing heart condition.