Prince Harry and Meghan Markle speak out

that's a good way really to start because but all of the heaviness of last night's interview and the seriousness and all the emotion to say there was some great news that she's pregnant with a baby girl yeah i'm gonna be a girl dad yes i was gonna say though that's where the good news ended for the royal family whatever they thought it was going to be it felt like it was worse well that's the thing tony i don't know what people thought but nobody was expecting that nobody was expecting that here's another word to add to the list of how you described last night we'll begin with their explosive the explosive interview touched on so many issues including race mental health and what appears to be a deep rift in the royal family prince harry and megan were candid quite candid and emotional as they spoke with oprah their first major interview together since stepping down from royal duties but in order to tell what they say is a real story the couple also had to address what they call is a false reporting of tabloid newspapers starting with a widely reported rumor about megan that she made her future sister-in-law kate middleton cry that was a week of harry and megan's wedding you say the narrative with kate it didn't happen so specifically did you make kate cry no so where did that come from was there a situation where she might have cried or she could have cried no the reverse happened you knew all along and people around you knew that that wasn't true everyone in the institution knew it wasn't so why didn't somebody just say that it's a good question speaking to oprah the duchess of sussex described a world that left her isolated and feeling trapped i remember so often people within the firm would say well you can't do this because it'll look like that you can't so even can i go and have lunch with my friends no no you're oversaturated you're everywhere and i said i've left the house twice in four months i'm everywhere but i am nowhere and from that standpoint i continued to say to people i know there's an obsession with how things look but has anyone talked about how it feels because right now i could not feel lonelier loneliness along with an onslaught of negative headlines at the palace would not refute and that meghan markle insists were false led to thoughts of suicide i just didn't i just didn't want to be alive anymore and that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought and i remember i remember how he just cradled me and i was i went to the institution and i said that i needed to go somewhere to get help and i was told that i couldn't that it wouldn't be good for the institution i share this because there are so many people who are afraid to voice that they need help and i know personally how hard it is to not just voice it but when you voice it to be told no but we had to go to this event and i remember him saying i don't think you can go and i said i can't be left alone because you were afraid of what you might do to yourself and we went and that's so sorry to hear that the couple also shared with oprah that when they were expecting their son archie the palace brought up his title and security detail those months when i was pregnant all around this same time so 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 what and who who is having that conversation with you what so um there is a conversation hold up hold up there are separate differences there are several conversations there's a conversation with you with harry about how dark your baby is going to be potentially and what that would mean or look like that was relayed to me from harry oprah asked prince harry about that discussion when he joined the interview what was that conversation that conversation i'm never going to share um but at the time at the time it was awkward i was a bit shocked um can you can you tell us what the question was no i'm not comfortable with sharing that they say it was that lack of support that ultimately led them to step away from royal life do you think you would have left or ever stepped back were it not for megan hmm no the answer to your question is no i would not have i wouldn't have i wouldn't have been able to because i myself was trapped please explain how you prince harry raised in a palace in a life of privilege literally a prince how you were trapped 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 and i have huge compassion for that harry also revealed his family cut him off financially last year but i've got what my mum left me and without that we would not have been able to do this okay so you know touching back on what you asking what my mum would think of this i think she saw it coming and i certainly felt her presence throughout this whole process so much unpacked there if you but let's start with this if you or someone you know is seeking mental health resources you can call the national alliance on mental illness there's a helpline at 1-800-950-6264 i'll say it again 1-800-950-6264 in a real crisis text nami that's n-a-m-i to 7-4-1-7-4-1 but let's go back to megan for just a second there were so many revelations there and i think we should add the word brave that she said number one you could tell oprah was certainly caught off guard when she talked about having suicidal thoughts that to me was also very new and i i got very choked up just listening to her explain how difficult it is to seek help and then to be told no no no there's nothing we can do i thought it was brave of her to share that i thought it was interesting at that moment too that she kept referring to the monarchy as the institution yeah yeah which makes it sound impenetrable and it appears in many ways it was and to help people understand how it was i thought it was remarkable that she acknowledged she had to hand over her passport and her ideas she became part of the family so when they say trapped you're trapped think about that there's a part uh i don't know if it was on the air last night but even on her birth on archie's birth certificate it doesn't even say her name yeah you know it says her met her royal highness or something like that where she talks about her identity being stripped away it was i think it was a real insight as to how it operates and what they were both dealing with yeah

Channel: CBS Mornings

Views: 4,532,227

Keywords: interview, british royal family, prince harry, Meghan Markle, duchess, depression, racism, family infighting, Oprah Winfrey, CBS This Morning

Id: _4kWaiDuTYU

Length: 7min 26sec (446 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 08 2021