The Duke of Sussex, who shocked Britain when he and his wife, Meghan, resigned from royal duties, told US interviewer Oprah Winfrey that he was concerned about the recurrence of history.
CBS has released two short clips from Winfrey’s interview with the couple, which will appear on March 7. This is the first TV interview they have delivered since California made their home last year.
“My biggest concern was that history repeated itself,” Harry said, referring to his mother, Diana, who died in a car accident in Paris at the age of 36 while being chased by paparazzi.
In the Winfrey tracks, Harry (36) sits next to Meghan (39) and holds her hand. The couple announced that they are expecting their second child.
“I’m just very relieved and glad I’m talking to her and talking to my wife next to me,” Harry said. ‘Because I can not imagine what it must have been like for her [Diana], by going through this process all these years ago.
“It was incredibly difficult for the two of us, but we at least had each other.”
In the clips, Winfrey said that no topic was out of bounds and at one point told the couple: ‘you said some shocking things here’, including that their situation was ‘almost unsustainable’.
Before moving to California, the couple complained about the treatment of the British tabloids on Meghan – whose father is white and mother African-American – some of which amount to bullying or racism.
Buckingham Palace announced this month that the couple will not return to their lives as working members of the royal family.
In an interview with James Corden for the American program The Late Late Show last week, Harry said that he cares about the intrusions of the media into his family’s life much more than the miniseries The Crown, which was ‘apparently fiction’.
He said the British press was creating a ‘difficult environment’ that was destroying his mental health, but insisted he was ‘not walking away’ from the royal family. “It was to retire rather than retire.”
He said: “So I did what any man, any father would do. It’s like, ‘I have to get my family out of here.’ But we never walked away. He added: “I will never walk away. I will always contribute. ”
With Reuters