Even before Meghan and Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey was broadcast, the first excerpts were made public - they contained serious allegations.
Los Angeles / London - For British and especially royal standards, the events that are currently taking place in the run-up to the broadcast of an intimate interview have the character of an incipient mud battle.
Shortly before the controversial conversation between the resigned duke couple Harry and Meghan and presenter Oprah Winfrey is shown publicly, the British newspaper
Times
again
reports in
detail on the allegations of bullying against Meghan Markle, which is said to have led to an official complaint within the palace in 2018.
According to the
Times
, internal emails about the incidents have now been leaked.
Markle’s lawyers wrote to the newspaper that even the reopened reporting was described as a “calculated smear campaign based on misleading and harmful false information”.
A campaign that also entails a drastic step: After an initial silence, Buckingham Palace will initiate an official investigation into the allegations, reports the
Daily Mail
.
A step that has never been seen before.
Meghan Markle: The royal house plays "an active role" in relation to common "untruths"
It is now becoming clear that the Duchess will also not mince words in an interview with talk show host Oprah Winfrey.
In the run-up, the responsible US broadcaster
CBS published
two video clips that show the first snippets from the interview.
Including a drastic accusation from Meghan Markle against the palace: "I don't know how you could expect us to remain silent after all this time, if there is an active role that the company (
the royal family, Editor's note
) plays in maintaining falsehoods about us "
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Harry and Meghan in an interview with Oprah: "Were you silenced?"
It is clear: Meghan blames the royal family for the fact that lies about the couple are not cleared up - so the palace is complicit in existing false accusations.
Which untruths are meant by this is of course not shown in the video - the curious observers have to follow the interview on the broadcast date.
It is certain that Harry and Meghan will put a few cards on the table there, not for nothing does presenter Oprah Winfrey ask the provocative question in another preview clip: "Have you been silent - or have you been silenced?" The audience should be excited be on the answer - and on the subsequent reactions or the icy silence of the royal family.
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In addition to the waves surrounding the scandal interview, the royal family is currently primarily concerned with the operation of the sick Prince Philip.
