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Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan (archive image): "Intimate conversation"
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The interview had been announced as an "intimate conversation", and apparently this promise will be kept: First excerpts from an interview by Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan with the US talker Oprah Winfrey indicate that the three had a long and intensive conversation - on numerous topics.
The prince, for example, expressed concern that "history might repeat itself."
What exactly he was referring to with this sentence is not clear beyond doubt.
From the published sequences, however, it emerges that the prince spoke in more detail about the separation of his parents and the accidental death of his mother Diana 24 years ago.
This is the couple's first major TV interview, recently publicized, about expecting a second child.
“I'm just really relieved and happy to sit here and talk to you with my wife by my side,” Harry said to Winfrey - and then added, looking at his late mother, “Because I can't imagine how it would be must have been for her to go through this process alone all those years ago. "
The conversation is apparently also about the couple's decision to completely withdraw from their duties as members of the British royal family.
"It was incredibly hard for both of us, but at least we had each other," said the 36-year-old.
"You said some pretty shocking things here"
Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey emphasized that no topic was taboo, at one point she said to the couple: "You said some pretty shocking things here," including that their situation was "almost insurmountable."
The broadcaster CBS has announced the interview with Winfrey for March 7th.
Oprah Winfrey is an old acquaintance of the couple.
Not only was she attending the May 2018 wedding at Windsor Castle, she also lives in the Montecito, California neighborhood where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved.
Winfrey is also involved with Prince Harry in a documentary series on mental health due to air on Apple TV + this spring.
Winfrey conducted the conversation in two parts: first she spoke to Duchess Meghan alone, and only later did Prince Harry join her.
According to the broadcaster, the interview with Meghan should "cover everything," according to the broadcaster: "From life as a royal, to marriage, motherhood, philanthropic work and how she deals with life under intense public pressure." the USA and their hopes for the future and for the expected offspring goes, Prince Harry will also join.
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For the prince it was the second more detailed interview in a short time.
Only a few days ago he had settled the accounts in a rare individual interview with the British tabloid media.
“We all know what the British press can be like.
And it has destroyed my mental health, ”he said in an interview with British presenter James Corden.
The Duke of Sussex and his wife Duchess Meghan had surprisingly withdrawn from the front row of the British royal family last year.
They recently announced their final resignation.
Meanwhile, the couple lives with their little son Archie mainly in Meghan's US homeland, California.
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