QUEEN TO IGNORE HARRY AND MEGHAN’S INTERVIEW Courtiers to ‘retaliate’ if monarchy attacked
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THE Queen will “ignore” the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s much-anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey, it has been reported.
Harry and Meghan’s televised conversation with the famous talk show host aired in the US last night, and is due to be broadcast on ITV this evening.
The Sunday Times reported that the monarch will not watch the programme and is instead focusing on national issues, while the paper said royal courtiers have branded the interview a “circus”.
Meanwhile, the Sunday Express reported that the Queen’s mind is “only on duty and Philip”.
In extracts of the interview, Meghan has criticised the constraints she faced as a working Royal, and said it was “liberating” to be able to “say yes” to an interview with Winfrey. She accused The Firm – as the Royal Family is sometimes known – of “perpetuating falsehoods” about her and Harry.
The Sunday Times reported Royal advisers are “prepared to retaliate with fresh disclosures about the couple’s behaviour if the monarchy is attacked”.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the reports.
It came as the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Countess of Wessex appeared last night in a pre-recorded show called A Celebration For Commonwealth Day, just hours before Harry and Meghan’s interview was aired.
It was at Westminster Abbey’s Commonwealth Day service in March last year when the Sussexes were last seen with their family, sitting close to the Queen, Charles, Camilla and William and Kate. A few months before that they had sent shockwaves through the monarchy by announcing they would be stepping down as working royals. It comes as the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, enters his fourth week in hospital.
He remains at the private King Edward VII’s Hospital in London after a successful procedure on a pre-existing heart condition last Wednesday.