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Meghan Markle blasts her one regret about Megxit is ‘believing the Royal Family would protect me’ in Oprah interview
MEGHAN Markle has slammed the Royal Family by saying her one regret about Megxit was ‘believing I would be protected’.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex claimed they had been left without security and ‘cut off financially’ in a bombshell two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle claimed they were not protected by the Royal Family[/caption]
The couple left the UK last year after stepping down from royal duties to seek ‘financial independence’.
Harry and Meghan have since signed lucrative deals with Netflix and Spotify after moving to an £11m mansion in California.
But during the interview, which is set to be screened in the UK later tonight, the pair claimed they had been driven from the ‘institution’.
Harry also denied having ‘blindsided’ the Queen by publishing a statement about the couple stepping down without her knowledge.
When asked by Oprah if they had any regrets over the way they handled their departure, Harry said: “No, I’m really proud of us.
“We did what we had to do and now we have another little one [child] on the way.”
Meghan then added: “I have one. My one regret is believing them when I said I would be protected.
“I believed that and I regret believing that, because if I had seen that wasn’t happening, I would have been able to do more.
“But I wasn’t supposed to see it, I wasn’t supposed to know.”
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In a bombshell two-hour interview, Meghan said she had been left ‘not wanting to live anymore’ after moving to the UK to live within the royal household.
Meghan revealed: “I was ashamed to say it at the time and ashamed to have to admit it to Harry because of how much loss he suffered.
“But I knew that if I didn’t say it I would do it – because I just didn’t want to be alive anymore.
“I didn’t want to be alive anymore. That was a very clear and real and frightening, constant thought.
“And I remember, I remember how he just cradled me.”
Meghan claimed reports that she had made Kate Middleton cry during a dress fitting before her wedding in May 2018 were false – and that Kate had been the one who drove her to tears.
She told Oprah: “What was hard to get over was being blamed for something not only I did not do, but that happened to me.”
The duchess added that when she was pregnant with Archie there were “concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born”.
As the interview began, Meghan, 39, said she grew up not knowing much about the Royal Family, adding: “I will say I went into it naively.”
When probed by Oprah if she was “silent or silenced”, she replied “the latter”.
Meghan even revealed she and Prince Harry married three days before their ceremony at Windsor Castle in 2018.
She said she didn’t understand what the job was – and joked she had never looked her husband Prince Harry up online.
After joining his wife later in the interview, Harry claimed that Prince Charles and Prince William are “trapped” in the Royal Family and that he feels “compassion” for them.
He also claimed to have been “educated” by Meghan in a way his father and his brother had not yet been able to.
Speaking about his current relationship with William, he said: “The relationship is “space” at the moment. Time heals all things, hopefully.”
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The broadcast of the interview for UK viewers on ITV tonight is expected to pull in around 7m viewers.
The figure would be less than a third of the 23 million Brits who watched Princess Diana’s bombshell interview with Martin Bashir in 1995.
The Princess of Wales infamously told Bashir “there was three of us in this marriage” referring to Prince Charles’ affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.
