The long-awaited and feared full-
scale interview of Oprah Winfrey with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry is
worth at least 5.8 million euros
, the two Windsor rebels who have now moved to Los Angeles after having said goodbye to the role controversially. of senior members of the Royal Family.
According to the Wall Street Journal, this is the
cost of the television rights paid by CBS
to the company of the famous American anchorwoman to broadcast it in the USA on Sunday evening 7 March at 8 pm (2 am in Italy) and then sell it on the international market, including Great Britain, where it will be broadcast on Monday on ITV (in Italy on Tv8).
Sunday in the US is one of the biggest television consumption nights and the interview was placed after the popular news magazine "60 Minutes".
A
large commercial operation
, with the sale of advertising space for 30 seconds at 325,000 dollars each, double the amount of a commercial in the same time slot.
Enough to induce CBS in recent days to lengthen the event by 30 minutes, bringing it to two hours.
The former royal couple, a spokesman assured him, will not receive any money.
But on the other hand he will be able to remove many pebbles from his shoes, with an interview that has already made people talk a lot, perhaps too much, before even ending up in the ether.
To raise the fever of waiting, CBS continues to relaunch a series of short previews.
Meghan's words are already shaking the Casa Real
and.
"I don't know how they can expect that after all this time we can remain silent given the active role of the 'Firm' in perpetuating falsehoods about us," said the American-born duchess without hesitation, replying to a cue from Oprah. on the increasingly embarrassing relationship between the couple and the rest of the dynasty, colloquially referred to in the official dimension with the label of 'Firm', the Firm.
"If there is a risk of losing something, well he has already lost a lot", he then continued in a quiet tone of defiance.
In another clip Meghan reveals instead that she felt "liberated" for having been able to claim "the right to say yes" to Oprah's interview, recorded in recent weeks with her husband.
In the exchange of words, the presenter tells of having proposed the interview with Meghan already in 2018, close to the wedding with Harry celebrated in style in London.
"Then it was not my choice" to accept it, replied the Duchess of Sussex.
While now, after turning away from Buckingham Palace and moving to America, things have changed.
"As an adult who could live his life in a truly independent way - he says - I found myself (in 2018) in a situation different from what people imagine it could be, while now I feel really liberated, able to have the right, and in some ways the privilege, to be able to say yes "to an interview request without having to ask anyone's permission.
A freedom that he seems to have every intention of using to tell his truth, to explain why the couple left the court, to denounce the hypocrisy of the royals.
Buckingham Palace did not stand by
after the interview was announced, opening an investigation into old allegations of bullying Meghan against the royal staff.
While the British tabloids accused her of a pair of showy earrings received as a wedding gift from the sinister Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman and then flaunted by the Duchess just twenty days after the killing of dissident Jamal Khashoggi, when it was already suspected of involvement of the heir to the throne of Riyadh.
The Windsors, a few hours after the interview, will appear as a united front on the occasion of the celebrations of the Commonwealth.
Queen Elizabeth, Charles, William, Camilla and Kate will pay tribute to the commitment of health workers in the fight against the pandemic.
As if to make the distance between the royals and the rebellious couple even more evident.
