Meghan Markle has opened up about why she and Prince Harry are now talking in a new video previewing the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Gayle King presented the video on “CBS This Morning” on Friday, saying it would show why Meghan and Harry “didn’t feel free to speak honestly earlier.”
The video shows Winfrey addressing the subject with Meghan: “I called you either in February or March 2018, before the wedding, asking, ‘Please give me an interview,’ and you said, ‘I’m sorry, this is not the time. ‘”
“I remember that conversation very well. I wasn’t even allowed to talk to you in person, was I? Meghan replied. “It simply came to our notice then [team] sitting there. ”
“There were other people in the room when we had that conversation,” Winfrey said. “You kindly refused me and said, ‘Maybe it’ll be another time, when it’s the right time.’
The media mogul gently pressed, “What’s right this time?”
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“It simply came to our notice then. That we are on the other side of many life experiences that have happened “, said Meghan. “And also that we have the ability to make our own choices in a way that I couldn’t have told you then, was not my choice to make.”
“As an adult, who has lived a truly independent life, to then enter this construction, which is, um, different from what I think people imagine it to be, it is truly liberating to be able to have the right and the privilege in certain ways to be able to say “Yes … I’m ready to talk”. ”
Winfrey added: “And say it yourself. And you don’t have to consult with anyone right now. ”
The duchess replied: “Yes, to be able to make a choice on your own. And just to be able to talk to yourself. ”
In another clip from an interview earlier this week, Winfrey asked the Duchess, “What do you think of the palace when you hear you’re telling the truth today?”
“I don’t know how one would expect us to remain silent after all this time if there is an active role that The Firm plays in perpetuating the fakes about us,” Meghan said in a teaser released Wednesday.
“And if this comes with the risk of losing things, I mean – there are many that have already been lost,” she added.
CBS told HuffPost in a statement earlier this month that Oprah talks to Meghan about “stepping into life as a royal, marriage, motherhood, philanthropic work, about how she manages life under intense public pressure,” during the interview. .
Later in the interview, Meghan is joined by Prince Harry, and the two discuss “their move to the United States and their future hopes and dreams for their expanding family,” CBS said.
The two-hour prime time special airs Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBS.
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