Oprah interview bombshells: Meghan claims she was suicidal when she was five months pregnant, Kate made HER cry and Royals refused to make Archie a prince because they were worried how 'dark' he would be

  • Meghan cradles baby bump throughout the interview and couple reveal to Oprah they are having a daughter
  • Duchess says a member of the royal family told Harry they were concerned about how 'dark' Archie would be 
  • Harry denies 'blindsiding' Queen with announcement they were quitting, says Charles stopped returning calls
  • Prince also says he and his brother are on 'different paths' and says that their mother would be 'angry and sad' 
  • Meghan said she was initially welcomed by everyone in royal family, describing meeting Queen for first time
  • But later she said she was 'silenced' and felt trapped in palace - comparing it to being in lockdown for Covid
  • Meghan said she felt suicidal and told Harry she didn't want to be alive anymore when they were in the UK 
  • For confidential support in the UK, call the Samaritans on 116123 or visit www.samaritans.org for details; In the US call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)Meghan Markle was tearful as she told Oprah Winfrey she was suicidal when she was pregnant and had warned Harry 'I don't want to be alive anymore' in today's bombshell CBS interview the couple also used to reveal they are having a daughter due this summer, Prince Charles cut them off and accused the Royal Family of racism.

    Harry also revealed that he was 'hurt' after his father stopped taking his calls after they decided to quit and there is a rift with his brother William while his wife said an unnamed member of her husband's family told him they were 'worried' about how 'dark' their son Archie's skin would be when he was born. 

    The Duchess of Sussex told Oprah said she 'couldn't be left alone' and that her husband had 'cradled' her as she told him she her suicidal thoughts at their cottage in the grounds of Windsor Castle in January 2019, when she was around five months pregnant - but said the palace HR department refused to help because she wasn't a 'paid employee'.In the extraordinary two-hour tell-all watched by tens of millions of people around the world, the Sussexes also revealed they were already planning 'Megxit' just six months after they married in May 2018 and Meghan compared life in Kensington Palace to lockdown in the Covid world today because she was 'banned' from going to lunch with friends.

    Describing how she considered ending her life believing it 'was better for everyone', Meghan said: 'I knew that if I didn't say it, that I would do it. I just didn't want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. I remember how he just cradled me. I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help. I said that "I've never felt this way before, and I need to go somewhere". And I was told that I couldn't, that it wouldn't be good for the institution'. 

    She said that after confiding in her husband, she was forced to go to the Royal Albert Hall for a charity event, claiming photos from that night 'haunt me', and said she later reached out to one of the best friends of Diana, Princess of Wales, because she felt so unsupported.

    The Duke of Sussex also said his family had 'cut him off' financially in early 2020, claiming that they had to sign multi-million dollar deals with Netflix and Spotify because he was relying on spending his inheritance from Princess Diana. 

    In the biggest royal interview for decades, they revealed they are expecting a baby girl, but Meghan claimed Harry's family were worried about how 'dark' their son Archie's skin would be. Harry also accused the family of failing to 'show support' for his wife when she suffered racism, and said he was 'trapped' in the Royal Family until he met Meghan, who he said had 'saved me'. He said: 'My father and brother. They're both trapped. They don't get to leave'. He added that his mother Diana would be 'angry and sad' that he felt he had to leave the royal family, but 'she saw it coming'. Harry said: 'All she'd ever want for us is to be happy'.

    Asked about his relationship with Prince Charles, Harry said they were now speaking, adding: 'There's a lot to work through there, you know? I feel really let down, because he's been through something similar. He knows what pain feels like, and Archie's his grandson. I will always love him, but there's a lot of hurt that's happened. And I will continue to make it one of my priorities to try and heal that relationship'. 

    In the most anticipated royal interview in decades, speaking to Oprah, Meghan and Harry: 

    • Choose to reveal the gender of their baby to Oprah - a girl due this summer;
    • Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, made Meghan cry ahead of the royal wedding - but 'owned it' and apologised, according to her sister-in-law;
    • Meghan described meeting the Queen for the first time and having to learn to curtsy. Harry and Meghan say they speak to her regularly on Zoom;
    • Duchess claims she was 'naive' when she joined the Royal Family - and never researched what it would be like, or Harry. She said that she was initially welcomed by the royals, but was later 'silenced' and felt trapped. She said officials had 'lied' to protect other royals instead of them;
    • Meghan claims a member of Harry's family was 'worried' about Archie's skin colour. Harry was asked about it and refused to say who it was; 
    • She described being cradled by Harry after feeling that she no longer wanted to live; Meghan claimed she begged for help from Palace but denied it because she wasn't a 'paid employee'; 
    • Harry says his family failed to 'support' and 'understand' them and reveals Charles stopped speaking to him;
    • Couple show of the hens they rescued from a factory farm for Archie's Chick Inn as Meghan says they want to 'live authentically' in their LA mansion;
    • Harry says he is 'hurt' but 'completely respects' Queen's decision to strip couple of all their patronages, but says he has 'no regrets' about their decision saying: 'I'm really proud of us'. 
    • But Meghan said: 'My regret is believing them when they said I'd be protected.' 
    Meghan Markle has told Oprah Winfrey that she was suicidal when she was part of the Royal Family living in the UK and told her husband: 'I don't want to be alive anymore'

    Meghan Markle has told Oprah Winfrey that she was suicidal when she was part of the Royal Family living in the UK and told her husband: 'I don't want to be alive anymore'Meghan cited this event at the Royal Albert Hall in January 2019, claiming she was forced to go when struggling with her mental health

    Meghan cited this event at the Royal Albert Hall in January 2019, claiming she was forced to go when struggling with her mental health

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have insisted their interview with Oprah Winfrey would be the 'last word' on them quitting as senior royals

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have insisted their interview with Oprah Winfrey would be the 'last word' on them quitting as senior royals Meghan Markle has spoken of  'The Firm' - a mafia-like term used to describe the Royal Family - had tried to smear and silence her

    Meghan Markle has spoken of  'The Firm' - a mafia-like term used to describe the Royal Family - had tried to smear and silence herHarry also said the couple left because of the media in Britain and because of a 'lack of support and lack of understanding' from his family, and revealed that his father refused to speak to him after they left for Vancouver. And in a sign that his relationship with his brother William is strained, claiming he 'didn't have anyone to turn to' and was 'ashamed' to admit his wife struggling.

    The main bombshells from the Oprah interview

    - Meghan's mental health

    The Duchess of Sussex revealed she had suicidal thoughts and said: 'I just didn't want to be alive any more.'

    She said she begged for help, and asked to go somewhere to get help, and approached one of the most senior people in the institution, but was told it would not look good.

    The duchess said: 'I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help. I said that I've never felt this way before and I need to go somewhere. And I was told that I couldn't, that it wouldn't be good for the institution.'

    - Baby Sussex is a girl

    Harry and Meghan revealed they are expecting a baby girl.

    The duke joined his wife in the second half of the interview, and told the chat show host: 'It's a girl.'

    He said his first thought was 'amazing' when he discovered they were having a girl, adding: 'Just grateful. To have any child, any one or any two, would have been amazing.

    'But to have a boy and then a girl, I mean what more can you ask for? Now we've got our family, we got the four of us and our two dogs.'

    Asked if they were 'done' with two children, Harry said 'done' and Meghan said: 'Two is it.'

    She also confirmed the baby is due in the 'summertime'.

    - Royal family accused of racism

    Meghan said, when she was pregnant with Archie, an unnamed member of the royal family raised 'concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born'.

    Asked whether there were concerns that her child would be 'too brown' and that would be a problem, Meghan said: 'If that is the assumption you are making, that is a pretty safe one.'

    Pushed by Winfrey on who had those conversations, Meghan refused to say, adding: 'I think that would be very damaging to them.'

    She added: 'That was relayed to me from Harry, those were conversations the family had with him, and I think it was really hard to be able to see those as compartmentalised conversations.'

    - Archie's title

    Meghan suggested she and Harry wanted Archie to be a prince so he would have security and be protected.

    The duchess expressed her shock at 'the idea of our son not being safe', and the idea of the first member of colour in this family, not being titled in the same way as other grandchildren.

    Archie, who is seventh in line to the throne, is not entitled to be an HRH or a prince due to rules set out more than 100 years ago by King George V.

    He will be entitled to be an HRH or a prince when the Prince of Wales accedes to the throne.

    As the first born son of a duke, Archie could have become Earl of Dumbarton - one of Harry's subsidiary titles - or have been Lord Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, instead at the time of his birth, a royal source said Harry and Meghan had decided he should a regular Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.

    - The Prince of Wales

    The Duke of Sussex said his father the Prince of Wales stopped taking his calls while Harry and Meghan were in Canada 'because I took matters into my own hands. I needed to do this for my family'.

    He said Charles wanted him to put his plans in writing.

    - The Queen

    Harry denied that he had 'blindsided' his grandmother Queen with the bombshell statement about stepping down as senior royal.

    The duke said he believed the report probably could have come from 'within the institution'.

    - The Duchess of Cambridge

    Meghan said Kate made her cry ahead of her wedding.

    Reports circulated ahead of the Sussexes' nuptials that Meghan left Kate in tears at Princess Charlotte's bridesmaid dress fitting.

    But Meghan told Winfrey the 'reverse happened'.

    Meghan said she was not sharing the information to be 'disparaging', but added it was 'really important for people to understand the truth'.

    'She's a good person,' the duchess added.

    He said: 'I love William to bits. He's my brother. We've been through hell together. I mean, we have a shared experience. But we're on different paths'. Harry added: 'My family literally cut me off financially. Members of my family were suggesting that she [Meghan] carries on acting, because there was not enough money to pay for her. There was some real obvious signs before we even got married that this was going to be really hard'.

    Meghan also revealed that Kate Middleton made her cry before she married Harry in a row over flowergirls' dresses, and claims she called the Queen when she heard Prince Philip was admitted to hospital almost three weeks ago.

    In the sensational interview she also accused the Royal Family of having 'concerns' about 'how dark' Archie's skin would be before he was born because she is mixed-race and Harry is white.

    The Duchess of Sussex also described her 'pain' that officials had denied him the title of prince and accused Buckingham Palace of failing to protect their son Archie by denying him 24/7 security. 

    Meghan refused to say which royal had the conversation with Harry about Archie's skin colour, claiming it would be 'damaging' to the person in her husband's family who raised it. 

    When Oprah asked if she was denied the title because of he is mixed-race, Oprah asked if the palace had concerns Archie would be 'too brown', Meghan said: 'In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time, we have in tandem, the conversation of 'He won't be given security, he's not going to be given a title,' and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born'.

    Oprah then interrupted and said: 'Hold on. Hold up. Stop right now. There's a conversation... about how dark your baby is going to be?' Meghan replied: 'Potentially, and what that would mean or look like'.

    'And you're not going to tell me who had the conversation?', Oprah asked. To which Meghan replied: 'I think that would be very damaging to them.  That was relayed to me from Harry. Those were conversations that family had with him'. 

    Much of the two-hour show was about the Royal Family, but there was no mention of Meghan's rift with her father and a brief mention of her mother Doria.

    As Oprah wrapped up the interview the couple insisted that they had had a 'happy ending' by moving to LA, with Harry saying he had 'no regrets'. But his wife added: 'My regret is believing them [the Royal Family] when they said I'd be protected.'

    Meghan then called their journey 'greater than any fairytale you've ever read' and said Harry had saved her life. Harry replied: 'Without question, she [Meghan] saved me.'

    In the most extraordinary royal interview in decades, Meghan also revealed in her Oprah interview that the Duchess of Cambridge made her cry before she married Harry - but insists she has forgiven Kate who bought her flowers to apologise.

    Ms Markle, who said she was 'silenced' by Buckingham Palace officials and felt lonely in London, she was asked about a row with Kate that made headlines around the world after a falling out over dresses for the flowergirls. 

    Harry and Meghan's TV interview with Oprah Winfrey has started in the US and began with Meghan Markle showing her growing 'baby bump' and revealed she and her husband will tell Oprah its gender on the show. The Sussexes also showed Oprah around their new mansion in LA, which has chickens.

    Meghan then denied making Kate cry before her wedding in 2018 – and said the opposite had happened. Oprah asked the Duchess: 'Was there a situation where she (Kate) might have cried? Or she could have cried?'

    But the Duchess of Sussex replied: 'No, no. The reverse happened. And I don't say that to be disparaging to anyone, because it was a really hard week of the wedding. And she was upset about something, but she owned it, and she apologised.

    'And she brought me flowers and a note, apologising. And she did what I would do if I knew that I hurt someone, right, to just take accountability for it.' Meghan added that it was 'shocking' that the 'reverse of that would be out in the world'.

    She continued: 'A few days before the wedding, she was upset about something pertaining - yes, the issue was correct - about flower girl dresses, and it made me cry, and it really hurt my feelings.

    'And I thought, in the context of everything else that was going on in those days leading to the wedding, that it didn't make sense to not be just doing whatever-- what everyone else was doing, which was trying to be supportive, knowing what was going on with my dad and whatnot.'

    Meghan also said: 'It wasn't a confrontation, and I actually think it's… I don't think it's fair to her to get into the details of that, because she apologised.

    'What was hard to get over was being blamed for something that not only I didn't do but that happened to me. And the people who were part of our wedding were going to our comms team and saying: 'I know this didn't happen. I don't have to tell them what actually happened'.'  

    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry shared candid footage of Archie playing on a beach during their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey

    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry shared candid footage of Archie playing on a beach during their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey The Duchess of Sussex had claimed she entered the Royal Family 'naively' and didn't do any research about her husband or the institution before entering it.  

    Describing meeting the Queen for the first time at Windsor and that she was shocked when she was told by Harry would need to curtsy to Her Majesty, and was taught by her husband's aunt Fergie.

    Describing her initial experiences of becoming part of the royal family, Meghan said: 'I will say I went into it naively, because I didn't grow up knowing much about the royal family.

    'It wasn't something that was part of conversation at home, it wasn't something that we followed.'

    Meghan said she did not research Harry or the family beforehand, and had little expectation of what becoming a working royal would involve.

    She said: 'I didn't fully understand what the job was, what does it mean to be a working royal, what do you do?

    'I didn't romanticise any element of it, but I think as Americans especially - what you know about the royals is what you read in fairy tales.

    'It's easy to have an image of it that's so far from reality and that's what was really tricky over those past few years, when the perception and reality are different things and you're being judged on the perception but you are living the reality of it, there's a complete misalignment and there's no way to explain that to people.' 

    The Duchess of Sussex, who brokered the interview, has already accused 'The Firm' of 'perpetuating falsehoods' about her and Harry and said they refused to be 'silenced' any more.

    The Sussexes have been branded 'selfish' and 'disrespectful' to go ahead with the shown when Harry's 99-year-old grandfather Prince Philip is in hospital recovering from heart surgery. 

    The interview, expected to be viewed by tens of millions of people in the US and millions more around the globe, is considered the most important piece of royal TV since Harry's mother spoke to the BBC's Martin Bashir in 1995 after she separated from Prince Charles. 

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have today insisted that their Oprah interview would be the 'last word' on their rift with the Royal Family. The couple, who will have their second child later this year, said they felt they 'needed to have their say' but now want to 'move on'.   

     

    'It's a GIRL!' Harry and Meghan reveal sex of their second child as they confirm their family but say 'two is it' 

    Meghan and Harry revealed their second child is a girl and is due to be born this summer, during their bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview.

    The pair said they are preparing to welcome a sister for their 22-month-old son Archie later this year.

    Harry joined his wife for the second half of the bombshell interview on CBS with Oprah, and excitedly told the chat show host: 'It's a girl.'

    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry revealed their second child is a girl during their interview

    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry revealed their second child is a girl during their interview

    He said his first thought was 'amazing' when he learned they were having a girl, adding: 'Just grateful. To have any child, any one or any two, would have been amazing.

    'But to have a boy and then a girl, I mean what more can you ask for? Now we've got our family, we got the four of us and our two dogs.'

    Asked if they were 'done' with two children, Harry said 'done' and Meghan said: 'Two is it.' She also confirmed the baby is due in the 'summertime'. 

     

    Kate made ME cry: Meghan Markle says Duchess of Cambridge made HER cry in bust up over flower girls before she married Prince Harry and later bought her flowers to say sorry 

    Meghan claimed that the Duchess of Cambridge made her cry before she married Prince Harry.

    But the Duchess of Sussex also insisted that she has now forgiven Kate Middleton and said she bought her flowers to apologise about the incident.

    Meghan was asked about a row with Prince William's wife that made headlines around the world after a falling out over dresses for the flowergirls.

    Meghan then denied making Kate, also 39, cry before her wedding, which took place at Windsor Castle in May 2018, and said the opposite had happened.Oprah asked Meghan: 'Was there a situation where she (Kate) might have cried? Or she could have cried?'

    But the Duchess of Sussex replied: 'No, no. The reverse happened. And I don't say that to be disparaging to anyone, because it was a really hard week of the wedding. And she was upset about something, but she owned it, and she apologised.

    'And she brought me flowers and a note, apologising. And she did what I would do if I knew that I hurt someone, right, to just take accountability for i

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