Shaye Diverio, Writer

On Sunday at 8 pm, CBS aired an interview with Oprah and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Harry and Meghan used this interview with Oprah to set the record and media straight. In doing this, they dropped bombshell after bombshell. 

For some people, this is not a huge shock. There have been a lot of questions around Princess Diana’s death and if the Royal family may have potentially had a part in it. Also, in ‘The Crown’ and Princess Diana’s Interviews she did before she died, viewers were privy to get insight into her life as a Princess. It is striking the parallels it has to Megan Markle’s experience.  

During an interview with Martin Bashir, Diana says, “Mmm. When no one listens to you, or you feel no one’s listening to you, all sorts of things start to happen.For instance you have so much pain inside yourself that you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you want help, but it’s the wrong help you’re asking for. People see it as crying wolf or attention-seeking, and they think because you’re in the media all the time you’ve got enough attention, inverted commas. But I was actually crying out because I wanted to get better in order to go forward and continue my duty and my role as wife, mother, Princess of Wales.So yes, I did inflict upon myself. I didn’t like myself, I was ashamed because I couldn’t cope with the pressures.” 

This sounds very similar to Meghan’s story while she was pregnant with her baby Archie and asking for help from senior members in the family and anyone who could help her. They would not allow her to leave. 

Meghan says that when asking for help, she first went to a very senior member of the family and then she went to human resources because she was left with no other choice. Meghan says they reacted by saying this, ‘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.'” 

While she was desperately talking about her very vivid thoughts. The institution was not willing to get her help in any way. Even though the child who is in her stomach would be the future King’s grandchild. 

After talking about Meghans hardships and troubles in the castle, they began to drop the biggest bombshell of them all. This was that there were questions and concerns about the color of how their children’s skin would look. 

This can be very damaging to The Royal Family. They would not allow insight to the details of the conversations or whom the conversations were with because of how damaging it could potentially be. 

For Harry, he made it clear that his personal fear was history repeating itself, speaking about what happened with his mother. 

In an article written by BuzzFeed, they say, “The two decided to step away from the family because of “this constant barrage,” Harry said. “My biggest concern was history repeating itself” — he said, referring to his mother, Princess Diana’s death during a paparazzi chase in the 1990s — “and I’ve said that before on numerous occasions, very publicly. And what I was seeing was history repeating itself, but more, perhaps — or definitely far more dangerous, because then you add race in and you add social media in.” 

Throughout this article, viewers watched Meghan and Harry set the record straight and also stand up against a very powerful family. For many, this will be very alarming and change their mindset on The Royal Family, which has been idolized for years. Overall, Meghan and Harry used this to set the record straight and go against the media that has been writing about them for years.