Prince Harry on Oprah Winfrey: my worry of Diana history repeating
The Duke of Sussex, who shocked Britain when he and his spouse, Meghan, stepped again from royal duties, has instructed the US interviewer Oprah Winfrey that he had apprehensive about history repeating itself.
CBS has launched two transient clips from Winfrey’s interview of the couple, which is scheduled to air on 7 March. It is the primary TV interview they’ve given since making California their dwelling final yr.
“My biggest concern was history repeating itself,” Harry stated, apparently referring to his mom, Diana, who died at age 36 in a automotive crash in Paris whereas being pursued by paparazzi.
In the Winfrey clips Harry, 36, was seated subsequent to Meghan, 39, and holding her hand. The couple have introduced they’re anticipating their second little one.
“I’m just really relieved and happy to be sitting her talking to you with my wife by my side,” Harry stated. “Because I can’t imagine what it must have been like for her [Diana], going through this process by herself all those years ago.
“It’s been unbelievably tough for the two of us, but at least we had each other.”
In the clips, Winfrey stated that no topic was off limits and at one level tells the couple “you have said some pretty shocking things here” together with that their scenario had been “almost unsurvivable”.
Before they moved to California, the couple had complained in regards to the British tabloids’ therapy of Meghan – whose father is white and mom is African-American – some of which they stated amounted to bullying or racism.
This month Buckingham Palace introduced the couple wouldn’t be returning to their lives as working members of the royal household.
In an interview with James Corden for the US programme The Late Late Show final week, Harry stated he minded the intrusions of the media into his household’s life far more than the miniseries The Crown, which was “obviously fiction”.
He stated the British press created a “difficult environment” that was destroying his psychological well being however insisted he “didn’t walk away” from the royal household. “It was stepping back rather than stepping down.”
He stated: “So I did what any husband, what any father would do. It’s like: ‘I need to get my family out of here.’ But we never walked away.” He added: “I will never walk away. I will always be contributing.”
With Reuters
