Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey could be a major blow to the British monarchy, far worse than Prince Andrew’s disastrous stint in the midst of the Jeffrey Epstein saga, royal experts say.
Author Pauline Maclaran said she believes Prince Andrew’s infamous interview about his friendship with the death-sentenced pedophile Epstein would turn pale compared to the upcoming Duke and Duchess CBS special.
“I think it’s a bigger danger than Prince Andrew’s car accident interview,” Maclaran told The Associated Press of Oprah’s session.
“I think Meghan will get a lot of sympathy, especially from the American public, for her position to be unsustainable,” Maclaran said.
Maclaran, author of “The Royal Fever: The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture,” said the CBS interview would threaten the size of “The Firm,” also known as the Palace, “dirtying real mysticism.” making blue bloods look normal people famous.
Family members rarely grant interviews, and when they do, questions are usually focused on specific issues. Freer interviews have often gone wrong, such as Andrew’s staging with the BBC in 2019, in which he did not apologize for being Epstein’s teammates or show empathy for the financier’s victims. Andrew resigned from his royal duties shortly after the interview.
But now that they are officially post-Megxit and live in California, it looks like the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have nothing to lose by doing the TV chat.
In a clip of Oprah’s interview released Friday, Markle, 39, said she was finally “ready to talk” after allegedly being jammed by royal aides.
“As an adult who lived a truly independent life and then went into this construction that is different from what I think what people imagine it to be, it’s really liberating to be able to have the right and the privilege to somehow be able to say yes.” , in the interview, Markle explained.
Other previously released clips have shown that the duchess will accuse the royal family of “perpetuating falsehoods” against her and Harry, 34.
The couple claimed they were the victims of a “defamation campaign” by the royal family after a UK newspaper published allegations that Markle had harassed palace officials and that Queen Elizabeth ordered an investigation into the allegations.
Regardless of what is said in the interview, Penny Junor, who has written several books about the royal family, predicted that things would be nasty on all sides.
“It’s a mess,” he said. “I don’t think there are any winners.”
With mail cables