In a long-awaited interview broadcast on Sunday evening by the CBS channel, Meghan Markle notably revealed having had suicidal thoughts when living in the royal family and claims to have been refused the psychological support she requested.
Embarrassing revelations for Buckingham Palace. Meghan Markle had suicidal thoughts while living with the royal family and was denied the psychological support she requested because it would have damaged the image of the institution, she revealed in an explosive two-hour interview with American television star, Oprah Winfrey.
During this highly anticipated interview broadcast on Sunday evening by the CBS channel, the mixed-race wife of Prince Harry, sometimes moved to tears, also reported on conversations within the royal family on the color of her son’s skin when she was pregnant with it.
The color of her son’s skin
“I just didn’t want to be alive anymore. And those were constant, terrifying, real and very clear thoughts,” said the Duchess of Sussex, who is expecting her second child, blaming her psychological state on the blanket. aggressive British media.
The American said that she went to see members of the royal institution to ask for help and to discuss the possibility of medical treatment, “and I was told that I could not, that it would not be. not good for the institution, ”she added.
The former actress spoke to Oprah Winfrey, who was disbelieving and shocked, about conversations she had been told about her son’s skin color before he was born.
Harry was told “of concerns and conversations (…) about how dark his skin (would be) when he (was born)”, “what that would mean and what that would look like”, a- she explained, without wanting to give the identity of the person or people who had this exchange with her husband because “it would be very damaging for them”.
“It was strange,” Harry said of this conversation, also refusing to reveal who was behind it. “I was in shock.”
Protection
The Duchess of Sussex also claimed that Buckingham Palace had refused to grant protection to the child and that members of the institution felt that Archie should not be given a title of nobility, although this is the tradition .
The two spouses, who announced they were expecting a girl, explained their withdrawal and their departure for the United States by the conjunction of untenable media pressure and the lack of support from the royal family.
“We have done all we can” to stay within the royal family, Prince Harry said, explaining that he himself had experienced psychological problems linked to the situation.
If Meghan Markle denounced a “real smear campaign” and said she did not feel protected by the royal family, she was careful not to personally attack members of the crown.