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Meghan accuses British royals of racism, says they pushed her to brink of suicide

Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, accused the British royal family of racism, lying and pushing her to the brink of suicide, in an explosive televised interview that looks set to shake the monarchy to its core.

The 39-year-old, whose mother is Black and father is white, said she had been naive before she married into the family in 2018, but that she ended up having suicidal thoughts and considering self-harm after pleading for help but getting none.

She added that her son Archie, now aged one, had been denied the title of prince because there were concerns within the royal family about how dark his skin might be.

“They didn’t want him to be a prince,” Meghan said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on CBS late on Sunday.

She said there had been “conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.”

Meghan declined to say who had aired such concerns, as did Harry, who said his family had cut them off financially and that his father Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, had let him down and refused to take his calls at one point.

Buckingham Palace has yet to comment publicly on the interview, which aired in the early hours of Monday morning in Britain.

Meghan cast the British royal family as uncaring and mendacious; and accused Kate – the wife of her husband’s brother Prince William – of making her cry before her wedding.

While the family including Prince Charles came in for open criticism, neither Harry nor Meghan attacked Queen Elizabeth directly.

Still, Meghan said she had been silenced by “the Firm” – which Elizabeth heads – and that her pleas for help while in distress at racist reporting and her predicament had fallen on deaf ears.

“I just didn’t want to be alive any more. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. And I how he (Harry) just cradled me,” Meghan said, wiping away tears.

Harry and Meghan’s announcement in January, 2020, that they intended to step down from their royal roles plunged the family into crisis.

Last month, Buckingham Palace confirmed the split would be permanent, as the couple looks to forge an independent life in the United States.

Harry, 36, said they had stepped back from royal duties because of a lack of understanding and that he was worried about history repeating itself – a reference to the 1997 death of his mother Diana.

“I feel really let down,” Harry said of his father. “My family literally cut me off financially.”

Harry denied blindsiding Queen Elizabeth, his grandmother, with his decision to shun life within the monarchy, but added that his father stopped taking his calls at one point.

“I had three conversations with my grandmother, and two conversations with my father before he stopped taking my calls. And then he said, can you put this all in writing?”

Their detractors say the couple want the glamour of their privileged positions without the dedication it requires or scrutiny it brings.

To their ers, their treatment shows how an outdated British institution has lashed out against a modern, biracial woman, with undertones of racism.

There have also been allegations of bullying against Meghan which first appeared in The Times newspaper in the buildup to the couple’s appearance.

Buckingham Palace said it would investigate the claims, adding it was “very concerned.”

In response to the report, a spokeswoman for Meghan said she was “saddened by this latest attack on her character, particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself.”

Meghan told Winfrey that people within the royal institution not only failed to protect her against malicious claims but lied to protect others.

“It was only once we were married and everything started to really worsen that I came to understand that not only was I not being protected but that they were willing to lie to protect other of the family,” Meghan said.

“There’s the family, and then there’s the people that are running the institution, those are two separate things and it’s important to be able to compartmentalise that because the queen, for example, has always been wonderful to me.”

Meghan denied a newspaper story that she had made Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, cry before the wedding and said it was a turning point in her relations with the media.

Asked if she made Kate cry, Meghan replied: “The reverse happened.

“A few days before the wedding she (Kate) was upset about something, pertaining to yes the issue was correct about the flower girl dresses, and it made me cry. And it really hurt my feelings.”

Meghan said she had not realised what she was marrying into when she ed the British monarchy.

“I will say I went into it naively because I didn’t grow up knowing much about the royal family,” Meghan said.

She explained she was not being paid for the interview.

[Reuters/NAN]

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/meghan-accuses-british-royals-of-racism-says-they-pushed-her-to-brink-of-suicide/

Wahala

Another racism tsunami coming

Hmm, is this true?

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Royalty.





It comes with a lot of stress.

Well it's a royal family so they have their own interests to protect too.Marrying into such a family will come with a price.

These people don dey talk too much,

you separate from dem and na you still dey call their names for your issue... Why not move on?? Make every body face him own way

My opinion: she want the glam of royalty but without the restriction it entails.

Even the queen is restricted bcus i can bet there's alot of things she would like to do but because she is the queen, she can do it... So even royalty comes with a price.

Not my business

The lady finished the British Royal Family and the British system.

She gave it to them hot! The Buckingham palace is preparing a response to all that she and her husband said.

Imagine Harry saying that he left UK to US with his family for the sake of his mental health.

Most Nigerians would come here now to bash her for bringing enemity to the Royal family. It was quite courageous of her to have taken that decision.

The British system, press and main stream news have ways of making one go insane if they come after you.

Just Imagine a Palace official saying only God knows how black Archer will look like even before the innocent boy was born.

This woman is tremendously heartless. A big schemer and social climber who I see dumping Harry later on, say like in 5 years time and then use the kids as leverage to settle herself financially. Only then will Harry return to his senses.

Though the Royal family may be racist and all that but she knew what she was getting into before going in.

The truth of the matter is that she and Harry know that they can never be the star couple or the centre of attraction cause as far as the British royal family is concerned William and his children will always be above them by virtue of birth and this realisation is the cause of the tantrum they are throwing now

They wanted to leave the royal family and they've achieved their aim so they should just keep quiet and move on with their lives

R

I wonder why blacks still worship their gods.
Meghan only offense was her black skin.

So this racism thing is still a dilemma even in supposed civilized climes? This ugly trend will never go away.

Suicide because of Racism or Somebody's Stupidity?

lie kee u

The way the British media has haunted this girl - which isn't the case with Kate Middleton. It's been obvious from the word go that they just can't accept the fact that a Black person is now a part of the royal family. Shame on them.

Racism in the UK is very subtle, unlike Americans who are usually blatant.

kill your self na them they announce am. abeg make I just used u do ritual so that u go empower me with wealth abeg

Center of racism is Britain!!

Hmmmm......

IF A WHOLE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY CAN BE THIS DISDAINFUL TO THEIR DAUGHTER INLAW JUST BECAUSE ONE OF HER PARENT WAS BLACK, HOW DID WE EXPECT A COMMON WHITE GUY IN THE CITY OF DETROIT TO SHUN RACISM.

I WITHDRAW ALL THE GOD BLESS THE QUEEN THAT I HAD EVER SAID IN MY LIFE, THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY IS THE PINNACLE OF RACISM.

I PITY MEGHAN AND HER INNOCENT SON.

Noted

Meghan thought marrying into the royal family will afford her the opportunity to have her own Keeping up with the Kardashians royal version

Okay

Playing the Victims card..
Blacks should be proud of their skin color...

I am Back but Beautiful.

How on earth should one contemplate suicide because they called you or your child black..?

Meghan is really poor in the mind..

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OlayemiAshraf:
Another racism tsunami coming

. I'm not surprised. British people are very racist but they do it in a coded way.

Some women will marry into a family and tear the family apart. will she have done this if her husband is next in line to the British throne after their dad

Says the British Royal slave

anomaly20:
Meghan thought marrying into the royal family will afford her the opportunity to have her own Keeping up with the Kardashians royal version

Its none of my business, next breaking news please.