Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s highly anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey could deal a major blow to the British monarchy – far worse than Prince Andrew’s disastrous sit-down in the midst of the Jeffrey Epstein saga, royal experts say.
Author Pauline Maclaran said she believes Prince Andrew’s infamous interview about his friendship with the late convicted pedophile Epstein would pale in comparison to the upcoming Duke and Duchess’s CBS special.
“I think it’s a greater danger than the Prince Andrew interview about car accidents,” Maclaran told The Associated Press of the Oprah sit-down.
“I think Meghan will get a lot of sympathy, especially from the American public, because her position is untenable,” Maclaran said.
Maclaran, author of “ Royal Fever: The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture, ” said the CBS interview would threaten the status of “ The Firm, ” aka the palace, by “ tarnishing the royal mysticism ” and the blue blood. look just like normal celebrities.
The royals rarely provide interviews, and when they do, the questions are usually hyper-focused on specific issues. More casual interviews have often gone badly, like Andrew’s train wreck sit-down with the BBC in 2019, in which he made no apologies for being buddies with Epstein or showing empathy for the financier’s victims. Andrew gave up his royal duties shortly after the interview.
But now that they’re officially post-Megxit and live in California, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex don’t seem to lose anything by giving the TV chat.
In a clip from the Oprah interview released Friday, Markle, 39, said she was finally “ready to talk” after allegedly being muzzled by royal aides.
“As an adult living a truly independent life and then going into this construction that is different from what I think people think it is, it’s really liberating to have in some ways the right and privilege to be able to say yes, In the interview, Markle explained.
Other pre-released clips have shown that the Duchess will accuse the royal family of “perpetuating falsehoods” against her and 34-year-old Harry.
The couple claimed they were the victims of a “smear campaign” by the royals after a British newspaper published allegations that Markle had bullied palace staff and that Queen Elizabeth ordered an investigation into the allegations.
Regardless of what else is said in the interview, Penny Junor, who has written several books about the royals, predicted it will get nasty on all sides.
“It’s just a mess,” she said. “I don’t think there will be any winners.”
With pole wires