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meghan.html

What Are Your Reactions to Oprah’s Interview With

Harry and Meghan?

Summary:

A year after Meghan Markle married Prince Harry in a fairy-tale wedding,

she said in an extraordinary interview broadcast on Sunday night, her life
as a member of the British royal family had become so emotionally
desolate that she contemplated suicide.

At another point, members of the family told Harry and Meghan, a biracial
former actress from the United States, that they did not want the couple’s
unborn child, Archie, to be a prince or princess, and expressed concerns
about how dark the colour of the baby’s skin would be.

An emotional but self-possessed Meghan said of her suicidal thoughts: “I

was ashamed to have to admit it to Harry. I knew that if I didn’t say it, I
would do it. I just didn’t want to be alive anymore.”

Meghan, 39, made the disclosures in an eagerly anticipated, at times

incendiary, interview on CBS with Oprah Winfrey that aired in the United
States in prime time. In describing a royal life that began as a fairy tale but
quickly turned suffocating and cruel, Meghan’s blunt answers raised the
combustible issues of race and privilege in the most rarefied echelon of
British society.

 Do you agree with those who think Meghan was brave and admirable in openly
addressing her mental health challenges? Why or why not?

What effects might her speaking out about them have?

 The couple took on the issue of racism, noting its role both in the British
tabloids’ treatment of Meghan and in her relationship with the royal family. Harry also
discussed his own racial awakening. A Times critic writes that Harry became “more
cleareyed, confrontational and emboldened to take on the British monarchy into which
he was born, and the white privilege that holds it up and has benefited him his entire
life.”
What are your reactions to the revelations revealed in the interview about these issues?
What effects do you think raising them this way might have in Britain or elsewhere in
the world?
 Considering the mental health issue discussed in this article, think about
the consequences the pandemic has had on teenagers’ mental health all
around the world. Would you be able to mention some of the problems
you have experienced in this matter?

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