Meghan and Harry on Oprah: Duchess tells chat show host that Kate made her cry a few days before her wedding
Meghan and Harry’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey has begun in the US, with millions of viewers watching to hear why they chose to step down as senior royals in the UK.
American audiences are the first to see the two-hour long Oprah With Meghan And Harry: A Primetime Special, which started with clips from the couple’s wedding, which the Duchess of Sussex described as an “out-of-body experience” – and revealed that the couple were married by the Archbishop of Canterbury three days before the formal ceremony.
Meghan told Oprah she went into marrying into the royals “naively, because I didn’t grow up knowing much about the Royal Family”.
She was also asked about headlines written about her and the Duchess of Cambridge, including one story alleging Meghan made Kate cry.
“The reverse happened,” Meghan told Oprah, later clarifying that Kate had “really hurt my feelings” a few days before the wedding, but that she had apologised.
It was not a “confrontation” and it would not be “fair” to Kate to go into detail, she said, but added that it was “hard to get over” being blamed for something she did not do.
“Everyone in the institution knew that wasn’t true,” she continued, and she hoped Kate “would have wanted that to be corrected”, but added that “she is a good person”.
Asked if she thinks there was a separate standard for her and Kate, and if so why, Meghan said: “I don’t know why. I can see now what layers were at play there.
“And again they really seemed to want a narrative of a hero and a villain.”
Meghan, who is pregnant with her second child, also told the US chat show queen she knows her unborn baby’s sex and will announce it later on in the interview.
She is talking on her own at the beginning of the chat, with Harry set to join later on.
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