Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan
Interview for the royals worse than feared
The British press says that Harry and Meghan's interview caused "shock waves"
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The Oprah interview is worse for the British royals than previously expected. The British media largely agree on this.
The interview of Prince Harry (36) and Duchess Meghan (39) with US talk legend Oprah Winfrey (67, "What I've learned from life") hit like a bomb. Harry said, for example, that he was "a prisoner" until he met Duchess Meghan (39) and the relationship with his father Prince Charles (72) was broken. Meghan said, among other things, that she had to struggle with suicidal thoughts. The British press believes the conversation could have far-reaching consequences for the British royals.
"It got worse"
"Whatever the royal family expected from this interview, it got worse," Valentine Low explains in the newspaper "The Times". In the interview, a "vulnerable couple" could be seen who felt trapped in their roles – and unprotected by the family.
ITV News’s Chris Ship believes one allegation in particular by the couple is set to cause a stir. Accordingly, there were discussions in the family about the skin color of Harry and Meghan's first baby before the birth of little Archie (1). It is not clear who was supposed to have been involved.
"The palace will have to grapple with serious questions," Ship writes on Twitter, among others. BBC Royal correspondent Jonny Dymond also sees it this way: "The accusation (…) is devastating." This allegation is for the palace in the GAU area. It is terrible for the royal family to have to deal with such an allegation. Martin Farrer also writes in the Guardian of this "amazing accusation that will send shock waves through the institution".
Holly Baxter explains in "The Independent" that the interview felt like "Harry's Revenge" for her. The conversation was about "devastating television" in an almost "gentle" way. For all those who still have the pictures of Prince Harry and his brother Prince William (38) at the funeral of their mother Diana, who died in 1997, in their heads, it was cathartic in some points.
There is also criticism of Meghan and Harry
But criticism of the interviewees was also loud – especially on the part of Piers Morgan (55). The British author and reporter has been an outspoken opponent of Meghan for some time. Among other things on Twitter he described the interview as an "absolutely shameful betrayal of the Queen and the royal family".