Meghan and Harry demand unconditional surrender

Neither the Queen nor Prince Charles wanted to stay up late to see Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. The Duke of Sussex had anticipated that its contents would displease them and they were unwilling to be part of the massive audience before which family privacy would be thrown as if they were offal. When Elizabeth II and her eldest son received at breakfast the summary of the devastating reckoning that the Sussexes had carried out on television, the toast was half eaten and the coffee cold and black as the spirits of their highnesses. Suicidal thoughts? Accusations of racism? An unstructured family in which the lie leaves almost no room for affection? This was a humiliating personal betrayal. An attack on the monarchy.

Yesterday Antena 3 broadcast exclusively for Spain the full content of this stoning show with which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have definitively broken with their royal past. Those who missed it will be able to enjoy it tonight at La Sexta. The decoration of the representation was the garden of the house of a friend, whose name has not transcended. Harry, in a gray suit and white shirt, seemed to give the spotlight to his wife, who was placed in the center of the scene, between him and Oprah. Meghan presented herself to the world with a serene gesture and an expensive style in which every detail carried a message: in the black silk dress, designed by Giorgio Armani (3,500 euros), the embroidery of a lotus flower stood out, a symbol of resistance. and rebirth; on the left wrist, a diamond bracelet that belonged to Lady Di and that the princess wore before her death. And next to this jewel, a bracelet from the Love collection, by Cartier, a gift from Harry (5,200 euros). The set was completed by a yellow gold pendant and three aquamarines from Pippa Small (1,600 euros) and some Aquazzura shoes (about 565 euros).

The image of the Duchess was that of a sweet pregnant woman who smiled in accomplice when her husband announced that the baby they are expecting is a girl. An endearing prologue before each of his sentences became a shovel of caustic soda on the in-laws. “I didn’t want to be alive,” she said of her attempts to survive a toxic family environment and media harassment. In his words, he asked to withdraw from public life for a time to seek relief from his depression, but the Windsors refused.

By then, Meghan was about to give birth to Archie, whose skin color, always according to the Sussexes, worried a member of the royal family, who they preferred not to name: “I was afraid he was too dark.”

The alleged racism that would contaminate the environment of the Crown and the cruelty with which the suicidal temptations of the Duchess were disparaged are the two revelations that are causing a greater deterioration to the international image of the English royals.

However, the worst of the side effects is domestic. Several recent polls show the empathy that the Sussexes have generated in a large percentage of Britons, especially young people, urban population and left-wing voters, for whom this crisis is proof that the monarchy needs an overhaul.

There are many who point to Meghan as the cause of this institutional earthquake. But it was Harry, who hit the hardest in his answers during the interview, especially his father. After the decision to leave the country “he stopped taking my calls,” he explained. […] It’s sad that it got to that point, but I had to do something for my own sanity, my wife’s and Archie’s. But Harry’s emotional wounds are much older and he showed them when talking about his relationship with his brother Guillermo: “We have been through hell together, I mean we have a shared experience. But we are on different paths. The relationship is distant. And he finished off the family epitaph with a devastating plea: “I was trapped, although I didn’t know I was until I met Meghan. […] My father and brother are also trapped. They cannot leave. And I feel great compassion for them.

Buckingham’s reaction has been a statement in which it is recognized that the complaints “are worrying and will be addressed in private”, although he adds that “memories may vary.”

“I hope they refer to theirs, because what happened we lived with them,” said actress Janina Gavankar, a friend of Meghan. In fact, there are many emails to back up everything Meghan said. ” He was probably speaking through the dukes, who thus issue a final warning: Either the Windsors withdraw from the battlefield or they will be thrown into a war they cannot win.