Royal pair to discuss Diana in Oprah interview

HARRY, MEGHAN

LONDON • In newly released teaser clips of an Oprah Winfrey interview with Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, set for broadcast Sunday, the couple return to the concerns that led them to step back from life as working members of the royal family.

“You’ve said some pretty shocking things here,” Winfrey says to the pair, who lost their royal patronages and honorary military titles last month after announcing last year that they would turn away from life as senior royals.

The widely anticipated two-hour interview will be broadcast as a CBS special on March 7 in the United States and is expected to be shown in the United Kingdom shortly after, according to British media. “I just want to make it clear, there is no subject that is off limits,” Winfrey says in one of the clips released by the network.

“Were you silent? Or were you silenced?” she asks Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.

The Duchess’s replies to the questions are not shown.

In one of the clips, Harry appears to refer to Princess Diana, who was killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997 while being pursued by a swarm of paparazzi. Like his mother, the royal has long struggled with the intensity of British tabloid reporting and has frequently accused the media of attempting to sabotage his personal relationships and damaging his mental health.

“My biggest concern was history repeating itself,” he says, a statement he has made in the past when speaking about being hounded by the British tabloids.