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Clips tease the Oprah special
FOUR clips have been released from the Oprah Winfrey special to be shown on US TV channel CBS tonight and ITV at 9pm tomorrow.
In the first teaser on Monday, Meghan didn’t say a word, but it included Oprah asking: “Were you silent... or were you silenced?”
Oprah also said: “I just want to make it clear to everybody, there is no subject that’s off-limits.”
And she later added, “Almost unsurvivable sounds like there was a breaking point” and “You’ve said some pretty shocking things here”.
Harry was heard saying, in reference to Diana’s death: “My biggest concern was history repeating itself.” In a second teaser the same day, he said: “For me, I’m just happy and relieved to be sitting here talking to you with my wife by my side because I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like for her going through this process by herself all those years ago because it has been unbelievably tough for the two of us, but at least we had each other.”
In the third clip on Thursday, Oprah asked Meghan: “How do you feel about the Palace hearing you speak your truth today?”
The Duchess replied: “I don’t know how they could expect that after all of this time we would still just be silent if there was an active role that The Firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us.”
In the fourth, on Friday, Oprah referred to Meghan turning down an interview with her before her wedding in 2018 because it “wasn’t the right time”.
MEGHAN Markle’s half-sister fears Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview could affect the health of their father and that of Prince Philip.
Samantha Markle says she and dad Thomas, 76, are preparing to watch the two-hour show which has been described as “shocking” with “no subject off-limits”.
The interview is expected to include footage of the Duchess speaking about her father and the Royal Family.
But Samantha says chat queen Oprah Winfrey, 67, should have postponed the screening of the interview until the Duke of Edinburgh leaves hospital.
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mirror, Samantha, 56, said: “I’m worried all this could affect my dad’s health. And it’s terrible that this is happening when Prince Philip is in hospital.
“It’s stressful to have someone making this drama and personal affronts on the family at a time when he’s so fragile.
“My dad could die at any time but it doesn’t seem to matter to Meghan. All that seems to matter to her is she gets her way. She’s like a bull in a china shop.”
Samantha believes clips released ahead of tonight’s programme show that Meghan, who is pregnant with her second child, has now turned on the royal family in the same way she says she did on her own, including brother Thomas Jnr, 55.
Meghan describes living in Britain as “almost unsurvivable” and accused the royal family of “perpetuating falsehoods”.
Samantha said: “The royal family welcomed Meg in and were so gracious. Now she’s acting like they’re the problem.
“For her to turn on them now feels like such a slap in the face, but I did once say ‘if she’ll do this to our family, she’ll do this to yours’ and I’ve been proven right.
“They shouldn’t be surprised because my father gave Meg everything she has but she treated him exactly the same way. I’m sure it will have affected their family and hurt them deeply, just as it has ours.”
Asked what she expects Meghan to say on the show – to be broadcast in the US tonight to mark International Women’s Day – she said: “I’m sure Meghan will play the victim and blame us for everything. It’s easier than apologising and acknowledging her own mistakes.
“Clips I’ve seen look like gaslighting at its finest. She talks of empowering women, but what about the voice of her sister in a wheelchair? Or her father who had two heart attacks? Or the voices of Prince Philip and the Queen? The only voices she cares about are ones that praise her.”
Thomas, an award-winning Hollywood lighting director, has said he spent thousands sending Meghan to private schools
The way Meghan has treated my dad is horrifying. He’s been on the phone in tears SAMANTHA MARKLE ON HER SISTER’S BEHAVIOUR
and university. Meghan, 39, and Harry, 36, live in Montecito, California, just 240 miles from Thomas in Rosarito, Mexico. But he has not spoken to Meghan since she cut off all contact with him after he took part in a paparazzi shoot before her wedding in May 2018.
It is understood Meghan remains close to mum Doria, 64, a social worker and yoga teacher. She was the only member of the family to attend the wedding, at which Prince Charles walked Meghan
HEARTBROKEN Kazeema knows that her nurse sister Areema Nasreen, who lost her life in April to Covid, would be appalled by the insulting pay snub.
Mum-of-three Areema, 36, died in Walsall hospital, West Mids, where she had cared for patients for 16 years. Healthcare assistant
Kazeema, 33, said: “She always used to say, ‘It’s not fair - they don’t get paid enough’.”
Kazeema said the pay offer was an “insult” to health workers who risked their lives. She added:
“Mum doesn’t want me to carry on with the job because she’s so scared of losing another daughter.”