Harry & Meghan Oprah Interview Tonight

I don’t know that they are malicious or not either, but I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they do want their children/grandchildren to be happy since I will never know their truth.  

I agree, I just don’t know how they couldn’t see where this was going to go.

I read the WaPo article on the interview, so I did not see it in its entirety.

I cannot stop thinking about a group of people telling two young boys who just lost their mother in a tragic accident that they needed to walk behind her casket with thousands and thousands of people gazing on. And they had to stand strong in doing so. It breaks my heart.

So I am extrapolating, but after Diana's 90s interview, I am not surprised to hear that the "firm" controls a lot. Meghan apparently gave Harry the courage to make a change. Do I think she has some ulterior motives? Possibly, but it doesn't really matter, does it? Would we rather see her ragged and in tears throughout an interview to prove she's telling the truth? She's a strong woman and she has to be. Let's not knock her down because she's not following the rules.

Because you revel in your hate for them. It’s like you get off on it. Then when you’re called out on your bizarre,hateful obsession, you get very defensive. As for your hate of Harry, well, he had the audacity to marry a black woman you despise. 

Carry on with your hatefest. 

Spot on.

Right? To listen to these haters though, it’s like the only other possible explanation is that they’re lying. They exchanged vows with each other and in the eyes of God privately and then made it legal a few days later. So? But the haters just want to catch her in “another lie”. 

I imagine “The Firm” could also include the network of royal aides, many of whom personally and professionally prioritize image and/or “their” royal - a network not unlike the Vatican Curia: old guard, hierarchal, tradition-bound, conservative, jockeying, class-conscious. I imagine family members might have much more daily contact with/advice from this network than with actual family members. 

Related: I would not be at all surprised that racism exists within this structure - family members or aides. Why is it so hard to believe people make offensive - if veiled - comments or innuendo? 

Also related: I can also imagine that seeking emergency mental health treatment within this structure - or even deciding whether to access the help yourself - would be fraught. Again: image, protocol, tradition, media. How could that not create hesitance, indecision, reluctance? This would be a far different situation than morning sickness.

Detail: my young adult American children posed in front of Buckingham Palace. At the time (pre”The Crown” LOL), they probably would have said “The Queen of England” (yes, inaccurate) lives there and could come up with her name and no others. I wonder if people are taking what Meghan said too literally. 

(Nah, I didn’t watch. Just reacting to what I read here. I agree that the royal intra-family struggles are probably way more complicated and nuanced than our under informed speculation allows. I also think it’s kind of fascinating culturally. I wish this couple and their children well.)

She’s Lauren 2.0. Vile, racist, and crazy.

I'm not talking about the Archie title thing at all, nor just to Brits. I'm talking about how much Meghan's descriptions of her experiences resonated with a seemingly large segment of Black Americans. Things here that are being dismissed as "just the way it is, suck it up" are being perceived as painful microaggressions (and some not micro- at all) and gaslighting that many people of color have regularly experienced in different contexts. 

There's an undercurrent here that she's lying about her experiences and feelings but the fact that they clearly ring true with a lot of people who've been on the receiving end of similar treatment (again, obviously in different contexts) is something I think we should all consider. 

Your comparison is apt. 

Yes, I do find it offensive and insulting when someone from another country tells me to go look on line and benefit from some strangers knowledge about the constitution and governance of my own country.

ETA and for the record I haven't watched the whole show so I am not prepared to comment on something that I haven't seen or heard as yet. There have been extract shared on social media regarding Archie's title. It was that and that alone I was commenting on from a constitutional aspect only. 

True..thanks

Other countries like to pretend as if America is the only country with a marked history of troubled race relations.


Ummm duh her experience is just as she relayed it because anti-blackness is global lovelies!!!

No one harping on how little Americans know about “the firm” has touched on racism in the UK or even stated an argument that racism isn’t the culprit for them upping and leaving the UK.


What a missed opportunity a Black women in the Royal family was. But better for their family that they can walk away from it all and find real community. The type that will house you when your own family withdraws protection and support.

Isn't it also possible that someone wondered out loud "I wonder what color hair he or she will have?" and now it is being interpreted as being a racist comment. Not every curious thought is rooted in racism but you can certainly turn it that way if it benefits you (them)

This is where I am at.  The press is going to do what the press wants to do,  completely racist I might add.  But I don't understand why anyone in the family did not respectfully come out to speak against the treatment of H and M.  Instead, they invited the press into the palace for a party.

It is such a missed opportunity for inclusiveness in the royal family.  The family should have embraced it, but instead they let Meghan get pummeled.