Do you think Oprah didn't ask the right questions.

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Lots of subjects were spoken about but I felt that Oprah could have asked for further information.

What questions do you think she should of asked.

My question is to Harry 'why didn't you get Meghan help with her MH if you are a loving husband'

@JovialNickname

She didn't ask any of the right questions or probe their answers at all - that's why they picked her and not Andrew Neill! (Can you imagine if they had)

I'd pay money to hear that interview! Can you imagine!

Celebs don't go on Oprah for a grilling. They get to answer some soft questions, 'have their say' and Oprah banks a big cheque.
If she'd asked anything controversial the interview would have been halted.
As it was, she gave them enough rope to hang themselves.

It was the Meghan Markle show, Oprah was little more than a puppet.

I still can't believe it was broadcast, it was shockingly bad.

Shame on ITV for paying for it.

Yip all of these comments.

MM was very vocal both spoken and written of being Caucasian but on a trip to SA lamented at being their sister. She's a master manipulator, pretended to wipe a tear, Oprah looking like a baffled idiot, Harry sitting looking utterly miserable and petulant.
He has a VERY murky past, with comments made to his comrades to which he was sent on a course to comply with acceptable behaviour. His abuse of polo ponies were also covered up yet sits with a his rescue hens.
When MM has had her fill of this weak spineless idiot he'll be back with his tail between his legs.

@the80sweregreat

I am bored and I read the transcript of this interview. Online . At one point Meghan was saying she didn't get any help with protocol or how to do things. Harry goes to say ' there's.. ' Then she buts in. I bet he was going to say ' there was someone' or something similar but she stopped him speaking. There are two more hours of this interview unseen and I'm sure this will be heard eventually. Oprah didn't challenge them much at all really. The What? Thing looked fake to me. Reading it back was weird. One thing he did say was he was told that Meghan would have to work as an actress or something as there wasn't any money for them as well as being a working royal.

As in most interviews I've done for TV (in a past life I was interviewed a few times) I'd expect, based on my experience that The What? was likely filmed afterwards. They do the interview with cameras on the interviewee and then after go back and do a few extra shots of the interviewer - so they may well have asked 'Can you just repeat 'The What' so we can get you on camera so we can cut to you at that bit Oprah'

I’d like to know if she thought that moving to another country, away from all her support, pregnancy hormones etc contributed at all to her mental health issues. Obviously the RF way of life was a major factor but I’d have more respect for them if they acknowledged that there were other factors.

Why bring this stress in to your life when you you are/wife is pregnant? Why could it not wait a matter of months?

@Myphone Good point

Ach it comes across as petulant and attention seeking - but hey 50 million viewers might help their Netflix whatever they are being paid for.

Ah really I am sad in that genuinely I think they could had have espoused good causes they care about within the RF. OK 2nd in command not direct in line , but - that is the way it works. They had a hugely privileged position to talk about the things they cared about. But duty is not the same as charity / philanthropy

I do honestly wish them well and I hope it works out for them

Oprah was awful but then her remit was clearly set out from the beginning or she wouldn't have got the interview.

This is the most sensible thread I've seen on the whole issue, a bit of critical thinking at last.

I'd have asked M to elaborate on the mental health issue and what help she looked for? From what was said I think M wanted to be checked in somewhere, not that she was turned down for any help. I don't believe that any courtier would turn away anyone who said they were suicidal never mind PH's wife who was pregnant, that didn't happen.

I'm not even British and I feel very sorry for the UK being labelled as racist based on this interview.

Yes I agree about MM asking for help, it seemed like she wanted a Priory or other retreat-type set up and yes, at short notice that would have been a logistical security nightmare, not to mention if the press got hold of it. Surely the repercussions of not offering her ANY help and her coming to harm would have been worse, so I suspect that while they probably would have said no to her particular request, I’m quite sure in-palace help could have been arranged. And surely Harry would have kicked off if it wasn’t.

If PH didn't get her help then he is a pretty s**t husband. He goes on about how he moved his family out of the UK as any good husband would yet he didn't get her MH help. Ok then.

I really think they should be challenged on the facts.

I mean Harry was barely held to account at all! I’d want to say ‘so, your pregnant wife is telling you she is going to harm herself, that she doesn’t want to live anymore, and you jolly her along to the Royal Albert hall in a sparkly dress? Then what? The next day, what conversations did you have about getting her help immediately? Because you didn’t leave the U.K. for another year after this event’

@OliviaBean

Oprah was awful but then her remit was clearly set out from the beginning or she wouldn't have got the interview.

This is the most sensible thread I've seen on the whole issue, a bit of critical thinking at last.

I'd have asked M to elaborate on the mental health issue and what help she looked for? From what was said I think M wanted to be checked in somewhere, not that she was turned down for any help. I don't believe that any courtier would turn away anyone who said they were suicidal never mind PH's wife who was pregnant, that didn't happen.

I'm not even British and I feel very sorry for the UK being labelled as racist based on this interview.

Yes I think she wanted to go somewhere like the Priory where there would be lots of other high profile Celebs. That’s would have been made public and been an embarrassment to the RF. I can see why the Head of PR might not feel this was the best idea. She could have asked for a year off though, and got a good therapist. The trouble is I think she wanted to get right away from the goldfish bowl to another country. It must have been a hard one to handle from the RF point of view , especially when she’d only been a working Royal for five minutes and had six months off maternity leave already. It doesn’t sound like the family really knew the full extent of the problem anyway. Harry says he didn’t tell them. It wasn’t a clear cut issue. Harry who already has mental health issues was trying to handle it on his own with no support, whilst trying to adjust to huge changes himself, becoming a father and a husband.

This whole thing won't end well. To me they both have a lot of issues. I don't wish anyone any doom in their lives but I think there will come a time where M is on Oprah again speaking her truth about H. PW must be worried, can you imagine given his close relationship with PH what M now knows about his life.

I don't think they will mend bridges with the RF and in the interests of the monarchy the RF may need to cut ties at least publicly with them for now. Hopefully they will keep some sort of olive branch open to PH on some personal level in the meantime.

A total s**t show.

Given Harry & his brother had spoken quite openly about MH issues , I find it hard to see H could not have found some genuine help for his wife. Now if he thought that was up to his Dad or "the institution" well , most people can phone someone outside their family - especially if rich and ask for help . The one thing I will very much say is that those who are genuinely feeling very depressed , things are not easy . can get help if they choose to - but sometimes it doesn't come on a plate. You need to phone . & it doesn't need to be your parents.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

I mean Harry was barely held to account at all! I’d want to say ‘so, your pregnant wife is telling you she is going to harm herself, that she doesn’t want to live anymore, and you jolly her along to the Royal Albert hall in a sparkly dress? Then what? The next day, what conversations did you have about getting her help immediately? Because you didn’t leave the U.K. for another year after this event’

I hate to question or judge someone’s mental health but I was curious given that Megan uses this evening as a turning point - so I looked up the newspaper articles for that day, you would never guess anything was wrong, perhaps she just hid it extremely well as many people manage to do I suppose. It also stated that she visited an animal shelter earlier that day and the article was very flattering toward her. But yes, the question remains, what action did Harry take to help his wife..

At the time Harry did nothing to hep her when she was feeling vulnerable.
She was pregnant and wanted help.
Harry didn't call out the remarks made by person unknown at the start of their relationship or challenge their views on the color of any children they may have.
Harry is totally to blame for a lot of this.
When will she turn on him for not supporting her ? It's only now he is doing so it seems.

I agree. Years down the line and we might sadly be seeing MM discussing her truth about the emotional neglect of her husband. Harry seems very immature and hot headed, a bad combination.

Oprah didn't ask him much about any of these things did she? Why not?
Meghan is quick to blame everyone else but not her own husband?
What a mess it all is.

This is the most sensible thread I've seen on the whole issue, a bit of critical thinking at last

I've only just caught up with it but agree completely

TBF the aspect of the "interview" that irritated me most - that it was a platform for grievances that weren't probed any further - was no different to so many these days. Unfortunately it means that we learn little beyond what narrative the subject wants to present, and I find that a shame

@Puzzledandpissedoff

This is the most sensible thread I've seen on the whole issue, a bit of critical thinking at last

I've only just caught up with it but agree completely

TBF the aspect of the "interview" that irritated me most - that it was a platform for grievances that weren't probed any further - was no different to so many these days. Unfortunately it means that we learn little beyond what narrative the subject wants to present, and I find that a shame

Yet the threads where everyone agreed that poor Meghan was treated appallingly by the horrid, racist RF and that rules were changed specifically to exclude Archie etc ran for pages and pages. People who quite clearly believed every word Meghan said, even when she was clearly lying (eg being married before the wedding).

Meghan wanted revenge on her sister in law.
Part of it.
The Royals being racist or making racist comments is well documented. Her own husband being just as bad.
The press are awful , but they have been like this towards Royal women for decades. Harry was told ' we've all been through it'
Not good enough is it?

Why is it the women that are subject to this shit?
Meghan wasn't suited for this life. Not many people would be. She thought it would be different to how it is
Harry isn't his brother who took his time to find someone who could take all this rubbish and rise above it. Meghan couldn't do so. Why should she? It's just a shame they couldn't thrash it all out in private and not now throw them and the whole country under a bus.
It's very sad and I can see all sides

I think she's a master manipulator too many inconsistencies already in the interview alot of her claims have already being debunked not knowing the royals yet knowing Eugenie. Blogging about Katie's wedding, pictured outside Buckinghamshire Palace in her youth, her childhood friend saying she was obsessed about Diana, reading her book watching the funeral. I think she knew who Harry was and arranged the blind date. I think she targeted him.

I mean who sits there by herself for the majority of the interview and verbally attacks there in laws like that, then later harry joins them, shes still does majority of the talking and even hushes him. She clearly in control of that relationship. Shes cut off her fathers side some of her mothers side doesn't seem to have a lot of long term friendship and has one previously marriage under her belt. She basically did what her father did to her and there was utter outcry over it. I don't believe for a second she's a victim and I believe she's bullied her staff members. I think it will come out and she will blame her mental health and say she wasn't in the right frame of mind at the time. She deserved an Oscar for that performance.

I totally agree. I also think aides are leaking information now because they are furious about the way she’s painted herself as a hapless victim.

I mean they complain about money and being cut off and she there wearing a 4 grand dress alone.