Meghan Markleis speaking out about the toll becoming a royal has taken on her in a revealing interview withOprah Winfreyon Sunday.
When asked how the palace may react to her interview, she said, “I think I’m not going to live my life in fear. I think so much of it is said with an understanding of just truth. But I think to answer your question, I don’t know how they could expect that after all of this time we would still just be silent if there is an active role that the firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us. That at a certain point, you’re going to go, ‘But you guys, someone just tell the truth.’
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Meghan’s rift with her estranged father, Thomas Markle, has made headlines over the years. Until now, she has never spoken publicly about her relationship with her father — but her father has frequently done the opposite.
Meghan and her father were recently involved in aprivacy and copyright infringement case. The Duchess won her claim against theMail on Sunday’s publishers last month after a British judge granted summary judgment in her favor over five articles published in February 2019 that reproduced parts of the handwritten letter she sent her father, Thomas Markle, following her royal wedding toPrince Harryin May 2018.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.CBS/Youtube
Meghan also referenced her pregnancy loss in her interview with Oprah. The Duchess of Sussex firstrevealed her miscarriagein a movingNew York Timesessay in November.
In Meghan’s searingly honest essay about her miscarriage, she described the “unbearable grief” she andPrince Harryexperienced. “I tried to imagine how we’d heal,” she wrote.
“They kept their miscarriage private for months because it was very painful and not anything that they knew if they would ever want to share,” a source previously told PEOPLE.
“They both seemed shocked at how painful it was. Meghan was ready to share now because so many women go through the same thing in silence,” the source added.
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The confessional op-ed was a departure from royal norms, which dictate minimal disclosures of private pain. And her decision to share her loss and encourage compassion has furthered the conversation around pregnancy loss.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s pregnancy reveal on Feb. 14.Misan Harriman
Meghan’s conversation with Oprah marks the first time she has had a sit-down interview since her engagement interview with Harry in 2017.
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In addition to attending Meghan andPrince Harry’s May 2018 wedding at Windsor Castle, Oprah is also one of the couple’s neighbors in their Montecito, California neighborhood, where they moved this past summer.
source: people.com
