During the two-hour appearance with Oprah Winfrey, Harry also revealed the problems had ruptured relations with his father, Prince Charles, and brother, Prince William, illuminating the depth of the family divisions that led the couple to step away from royal duties and move to California last year.
Prince Harry and Meghan’s explosive TV interview divided people around the world on Monday, rocking an institution that is struggling to modernize with claims of racism and callousness toward a woman struggling with suicidal thoughts.
During the two-hour appearance with Oprah Winfrey, Harry also revealed the problems had ruptured relations with his father, Prince Charles, and brother, Prince William, illuminating the depth of the family divisions that led the couple to step away from royal duties and move to California last year.
The palace has not yet responded to the interview, in which Meghan described feeling so isolated and miserable inside the royal family that she had suicidal thoughts and said a member of the family had “concerns” about the color of her unborn child’s skin.
The family member was not Queen Elizabeth II or Prince Philip, according to Harry, sparking a flurry of speculation about who it could be.
Leaders around the world were asked about the interview, and citizens of many countries had an opinion.
In Accra, Ghana, Devinia Cudjoe said that hearing that a member of the royal family was worried about the color of the skin of an unborn child was insulting to people of the Commonwealth, the grouping of Britain and its former colonies that is headed by the queen.
“It’s clearly an unhappy family, or at least Meghan and Harry are unhappy. It seems very sad,” Turnbull told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “After the end of the queen’s reign, that is the time for us to say: OK, we’ve passed that watershed. Do we really want to have whoever happens to be the head of state, the king or queen of the U.K., automatically our head of state?”
Tennis star Serena Williams, a friend who attended Harry and Meghan’s wedding, said on Twitter that the duchess’s words “illustrate the pain and cruelty she’s experienced.”
Poet Amanda Gorman took to Twitter to express her concern.
Meghan is living the life Diana should have, if only those around her had been as brave as she was. Meghan isnt living a life without pain, but a life without a prison.
— Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman) March 8, 2021
My article on #Meghan in the @guardian - we have learned nothing from Princess Diana's treatment. #OprahMeghanHarry https://t.co/sUHB7IsgzT
— Prof Kate Williams (@KateWilliamsme) March 8, 2021
Royal family worried about Archies skin colour when Prince Phillip is purple #MeghanAndHarryOnOprah #OprahMeghanHarry pic.twitter.com/Twt1nJxPvp
— Stevie (@StevieeeWx) March 8, 2021
My internet connection was moving mad like the royals at the beginning but Im thankful my words could still be heard clearly.
— machine gun Kele (@kelechnekoff) March 9, 2021
A colourblind imperial institution doesnt make sense. Time to be honest about that. #OprahMeghanHarry pic.twitter.com/rDJIvvy6u2
Meghan and Harry here to take back everything stolen from Diana. pic.twitter.com/LLZNcscsvg
— Johnetta Elzie (@Nettaaaaaaaa) March 7, 2021
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