rinceHarry has said he felt “trapped” and “desperate” in the royal family.
Harry joined Meghan for the second part of the CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey shown in America on Sunday night. It will be broadcast on ITV tonight at 9pm.
The prince, 36, spoke about the couple’s decision to step back as senior royals, which was announced last year.
He also covered topics such as racism at the palace, his relationship with his father Prince Charles and brother Prince William and the couple’s treatment in the press.
Harry said he couldn’t leave the royal family because “I myself was trapped. I didn’t see a way out. I was trapped but I didn’t know I was trapped”.
Winfrey pushed Harry to explain how he had been “trapped” after being born into the privilege of the royal family. He said he was “trapped within the system, like the rest of my family are”.
“My father and my brother, they are trapped. They don’t get to leave,” he said.
He said he has “huge compassion for that”.
Asked if he would have stepped back from the royal family had he not met Meghan, Harry said: “No, the answer to your question is no.”
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Asked about the “tipping point” which meant the couple decided to step back as senior royals and leave the UK, Harry replied: “I was desperate.
“I went to all the places which I thought I should go to, to ask for help – we both did, separately and together.”
Winfrey said: “You left because you were asking for help, and didn’t get it?”
Harry replied: “Yeah. Basically. But we never left.”
Meghan said: “We never left the family.”
Winfrey said: “In conclusion, if you had the support, you’d still be there (the UK)?”
Harry replied: “Without question.
“I’m sad that what’s happened has happened, but I know and I am comfortable knowing we did everything we could to make it work.”
Speaking about his father, the Prince of Wales, Harry said he stopped taking his calls in the early part of 2020 when the couple first announced they were stepping back from their roles.
He said of his relationship with Prince Charles: “I feel really let down because he’s been through something similar, he knows what pain feels like, (and) Archie’s his grandson.
“But at the same time – 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.
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“But they only know what they know, or what they’re told.”
When the couple announced in early 2020 they were to step back from their roles as senior royals, reports suggested the Queen was unaware and even “blindsided” by the move.
Winfrey asked “did you blindside the Queen?” Harry replied: “No, I would never blindside my grandmother, I have too much respect for her.”
Asked where that story came from, Harry said he could “hazard a guess” that it may have come “from within the institution”.
Asked by Winfrey how they knew the Queen was not blindsided, Harry said while in Canada he had “three conversations with my grandmother and two conversations with my father, before he stopped taking my calls”.
He said Charles asked for him to put his plan “in writing”. Harry said he had to act for the wellbeing of himself, Meghan and Archie.
Harry said he and Meghan wanted to “take a breath” from the “constant barrage”, and again said he saw “history repeating itself”, following the death of his mother.
Harry said: “What I was seeing was history repeating itself, but definitely far more dangerous – because then you add race in, and you add social media in.”
Winfrey pressed Harry to disclose the content of a conversation Meghan referred to earlier in the interview about Archie’s skin tone.
Harry said: “That conversation, I am never going to share. At the time it was awkward, I was a bit shocked.”
He said he was “not comfortable” sharing the question he was asked by the unnamed person, but said it happened “right at the beginning” of their relationship.
On the topic of Meghan and racism, Harry said: “And I guess one of the most telling parts, and the saddest parts I guess, was over 70 members of Parliament, female members of Parliament, both Conservative and Labour, came out and called out the colonial undertones of articles and headlines written about Megan.
“Yet no-one from my family ever said anything over those three years. That hurts.
“But I also am acutely aware of where my family stand, and how scared they are of the tabloids turning on them.”
Harry said he and Meghan wanted to “take a breath” from the “constant barrage”, and again said he saw “history repeating itself”, following the death of his mother.
Harry said: “What I was seeing was history repeating itself, but definitely far more dangerous – because then you add race in, and you add social media in.”
He added: “When you can see something happening in the same kind of way, anybody would ask for help, ask the system of which you are part of, especially when you know there is a relationship there that they could help and share some truth or call the dogs off.
“So to receive no help at all … to be told continuously this is how it is, we’ve all been through it…”
He added: “Me having a girlfriend was always going to be a big thing.
“It takes living in her (Meghan’s) shoes for a day to see where it was gonna go and how far they (the UK press) would take it.”
He spoke openly about how he felt when Meghan told him how desperate she was feeling – and how her mental health was at rock bottom.
He said when Meghan opened up to him: “I had no idea what to do. I wasn’t prepared for that. I went to a very dark place as well, but I wanted to be there for her.”
Asked if he told people in his family that he needed to get help for Meghan, Harry said: “That’s just not a conversation that would be had.”
He added: “I guess I was ashamed of admitting it to them. And I don’t know whether they’ve had the same feelings or thoughts. I have no idea. It’s a very trapping environment that a lot of them are stuck in.”
Winfrey said: “You were ashamed of admitting that Meghan needed help?”
Harry replied: “Yeah…I didn’t have anyone to turn to. We’ve got some very close friends that have been with us through this whole process. But for the family, they very much have this mentality of ‘This is just how it is, this is how it’s meant to be, you can’t change it, we’ve all been through it’.”
Asked about his relationship with William, Harry said: “The relationship is space at the moment. And time heals all things, hopefully.”
“I love William to bits, he’s my brother, we’ve been through hell together, we have a shared experience, but we were on different paths.”
ustralians were to begin with stunned to see a hot pant cladded dance troupe twerking to Sean Paul in front of dignitaries at the unveiling of their new navy warship.
But now the ABC news community has apologised soon after modifying the footage in a “creepy” and “sexualising” way sparking threats to the 101 Doll Squadron dancers in a controversy quickly getting to be acknowledged as Twerkgate.
In the information bundle, which appeared to feed Liberal MP Phillip Thompson’s description of the navy as getting “too woke”, the women’s schedule is spliced with response shots from seemingly bemused dignitaries who were, in actuality, seeing a later effectiveness.
Real footage has been leaked of the efficiency, built to reflect Sydney’s Wooloomooloo community, which happened in advance of admirals arrived at the commissioning of HMAS Provide on Saturday.
The ABC has now issued an apology for the way the video was edited, declaring a government MP had told the reporters equally the governor common and the main of navy were being existing for the dance.
“The video clip ought to not have been edited in that way and the ABC apologises to the Governor-Basic and the Chief of Navy, and to viewers, for this mistake,” the assertion mentioned.
101 Doll Squadron experienced previously produced a assertion saying they felt “unsafe” and individually attacked, blaming what they say was the ABC’s “deceptive editing” of a information clip.
“We are very unhappy at the ABC’s misleading enhancing of their online video piece which cut to company and dignitaries who have been not in attendance, and shot from angles which could not be witnessed by the audience,” they stated.
“We found this pretty creepy.”
The group, who specialise in dancehall and afrobeats, have deleted their Fb web page and built their Instagram account non-public following acquiring abuse on the web.
They also lashed out at what they considered was the ABC’s “need to sexualise these ladies and their dance piece”.
“These are the illustrations or photos showing up in the media and the ABC have a ton to respond to for in building us feel threatened and exploited.”
Australian key minister, Scott Morrison, claimed he was ‘“disappointed” in the way the ABC claimed on the celebration.
“I am dissatisfied that this celebration was so misreported. I believe that was disrespectful to the performers to counsel the governor normal or other folks were in attendance in that way.
“I think expectations have unsuccessful and so I imagine certainly defence will seem at these issues and make what changes they desire to in the long term. I will leave that to them. It is disappointing that Australians had been so misled on that problem.”