In an emotional interview with Oprah Winfrey Meghan Markle and Harry revealed the following;
- They are expecting a baby girl this summer
- Meghan said that life within the royal family was so isolating, lonely, and lacking in support that she had experienced suicidal thoughts. When Winfrey asked if she had been driven to the verge of suicide, Meghan replied, “Yes.”
- She hadn’t wanted to admit it, but she eventually told Harry because “I knew that if I didn’t say it, that I would do it, and I just didn’t want to be alive anymore,” Meghan said.
- Harry added that after she confided in him, he, too, had been in “a very dark place” — but wanted to be there to support his wife.
- Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, made Meghan cry ahead of the royal wedding
- Meghan says a member of Harry’s family was ‘worried’ about Archie’s skin colour when asked if he was ‘too brown’
- Meghan said she begged for help from Palace but denied it because she wasn’t a ‘paid employee
- Harry says his family failed to ‘support’ and ‘understand’ them and reveals Charles stopped speaking to him; and ‘cut me off financially’;
- Charles has since started taking his calls again. “I will always love him,” Harry said. “I will continue to make it one of my priorities to try and heal that relationship.”
- Harry says he is ‘hurt’ but ‘completely respects’ Queen’s decision to strip couple of all their patronages, but says he has ‘no regrets’ about their decision saying: ‘I’m really proud of us’.
- Meghan says she regret believing them when they said I’d be protected.’
- Kate allowed people to think Meghan hurt her when it was the other way around.
- Tyler Perry’s house, Diana’s money saved Harry when he needed it.
- Meghan described meeting the Queen for the first time and having to learn to curtsy from Fergie.
- Duchess was ‘naive’ when she joined the Royal Family – and never researched what it would be like.
- She said that she was initially welcomed by the royals, but was later ‘silenced’ and felt trapped.
- She said officials had ‘lied’ to protect other royals instead of them and took her ‘passport, my driving licence, my keys’.
- Meghan told Winfrey that though she had been welcomed by the Queen and other members of the family, she was given little guidance or support — when she began having suicidal thoughts and asked for help, they told her no.
- She also denied rumors that she had made Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, cry during her royal wedding. In fact, it was the other way around — a disagreement with Kate had made Meghan cry, she said, adding that Kate has apologized and the issue has been resolved.
- Harry spoke about his own tensions with his family; his father, Prince Charles, stopped taking his calls while the couple prepared to step away from the royal family.
- Harry said that he had also been trapped within the system — but he hadn’t known it until he met and married Meghan. In that way, she saved him, he said.
- But Meghan turned it around on him. “You made a decision that certainly saved my life –and saved all of us,” she told Harry, referring to the decision to step away from the royal family.