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If the Royal Family thought that Princess Diana’s 1995 interview with Martin Bashir was the benchmark for the most damaging public tell-all involving a member of the family, they were wrong.

Meghan Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry’s highly anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey was aired yesterday in the US, and they threw a few grenades into a narrative that has been keeping things civil between them and senior royals.

They touched on everything, from the wedding to Meghan’s relationship with the Queen, and they were just getting started.

Per Sky News, speaking about the Royal wedding, Meghan says that she and Harry were already officially married before the event. She also felt that the actual day had very little to do with them.

“It was like having an out-of-body experience I was very present for… I think we were both really aware, even in advance of that, this wasn’t our day, this was the day that was planned for the world.”

She also says that she married into the Royal Family unprepared.

“I will say I went into it naively because I didn’t grow up knowing much about the Royal Family. It wasn’t something that was part of conversation at home, it wasn’t something that we followed.”

Take in a compilation of some of the most revealing moments from the interview:

Apparently, they cut Harry’s finances off completely.  Here’s what the couple is currently worth.

Later in the interview, after talking about how she didn’t know that she would have to curtsy when meeting the Queen, she said that the monarch had always been “warm and inviting”, and that she had gifted her a pair of pearl earrings and a necklace on their first joint engagement to Cheshire in 2018.

As an aside, in his interview with James Corden, Harry mentioned that the Queen bought Archie a waffle maker. ‘The Queen bought a waffle maker’ is a weird sentence.

During her time with the Royal Family, Meghan went to a dark place.

“I just didn’t want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. And I remember how [Harry] just cradled me.”

She says that she asked for help, but was declined.

“I remember this conversation like it was yesterday, because they said, my heart goes out to you because I see how bad it is, but there’s nothing we can do to protect you because you’re not a paid employee of the institution.

“This wasn’t a choice. This was emails and begging for help, saying very specifically I am concerned for my mental welfare.”

More clips from the interview, via CBS, including Meghan’s admission that she was so unhappy that she contemplated suicide:

Some of the most disturbing information pertained to Archie.

“In those months when I was pregnant… we have in tandem the conversation of, you won’t be given security, not gonna be given a title and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.”

Meghan emphasised that the Royal Family itself and the institution are two very separate things.

“There’s the family, and then there’s the people that are running the institution, those are two separate things and it’s important to be able to compartmentalise that because the Queen, for example, has always been wonderful to me.”

At least the Queen came out of this mostly unscathed, although I’m sure she still isn’t pleased.

In happier news, the couple revealed that their second child is a girl.

You can see the full interview on M-Net (DStv channel 101) from 7:30PM tonight.

Now we wait for the response from the Palace…

[source:skynews]