Thank you for joining us as we covered the interview that will rock the “firm” and perhaps sever any remaining ties Harry and Meghan had with the royal family, and dash their hopes of a reconciliation.
The interview is airing, in full tonight, on Channel 10 at 7.30pm AEDT.
And Oprah will be on US morning TV in about six hours’ time with the additional behind the scenes clips from the interview.
Here is a short summary of what we learnt during the tell-all interview:
- Meghan and Harry announced that their next child will be a girl. This will be their last child, they said.
- They pinpointed their 2018 tour of Australia as a turning point in their now toxic relationship with the royal family.
- In the biggest bombshell, Meghan claimed there were concerns within the royal family about how dark the skin would be of their first child, Archie. In the months leading up to Archie’s birth, Meghan said there were not only conversations about how he would not be given a title, or security, but a member of the royal family raised concerns with Harry about how dark the baby’s skin might be and “what that would mean or look like”. Neither Meghan nor Harry would reveal who that conversation was with.
- The duchess also spoke about the depths of her mental despair before she and her husband split from the royal family. Meghan said she reached a point where she “just didn’t want to be alive anymore, and that was a very real and clear and frightening and constant thought”.
- Harry said his mother, the late Princess Diana would be “angry and sad” at how things worked out, “but I think all she would ever want would be for us to be happy”.
- Harry revealed the royal family had cut him off financially but they were being supported by money he was left by Princess Diana.
- The couple also revealed they were married in secret three days prior to their wedding on May 19, 2018. “Nobody knows this,” Meghan said.
- Prince Charles at one point stopped taking Harry’s calls, but the pair are now speaking again. Harry also hopes to reconcile with his brother William, but described their current relationship as having “space”.
- Meghan said she never made Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge cry, but that it was her sister-in-law who had made Meghan cry in the lead up to her wedding over something to do with flower girl dresses. But Meghan said Catherine apologised at the time and brought flowers.
- The couple still talks to the Queen and have enormous respect for her.
- And let’s not forget the chickens. Part of the interview was taped at the couple’s sprawling home, in their chicken coop, with Meghan revealing their hens are rescue hens. Subsequently, “where to find rescue chickens” was trending on Google.
- The interview ended with Meghan praising her husband for saving her life. “I think he saved all of us, he ultimately called it,” she said. “He certainly made a decision that saved my life, and saved all of us.”
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