Oprah Winfrey hopes Queen Elizabeth II’s death will unite Royal Family after bombshell interview: ‘There’s an opportunity for peacemaking’-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro

The US TV host hopes Harry and William can grow closer again (Picture: AP/AFP/Getty)

Oprah Winfrey hopes Queen Elizabeth’s death will bring the Duke and Duchess of Sussex closer to the rest of the Royal Family.

Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Queen died ‘peacefully’ on September 8 at Balmoral Castle, surrounded by loved ones.

Media mogul Oprah, 68, famously conducted a tell-all interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle couple – who stepped away from official duties to start a new life in the US in 2020 – last year, which is believed to have widened the rift between them and Prince Harry’s relatives.

Over the weekend, however, the couple joined the Prince and Princess of Wales in meeting members of the public outside Windsor Castle, who had come to pay their respects to the queen following her death.

Oprah hopes the outing was the first step in bringing the whole family back together again, with relations between Prince Harry and his father, King Charles III, and brother, Prince William, said to have been particularly strained.

When asked if there is hope the Queen’s death can ‘unify the family’, Oprah told Extra: ‘Well, this is what I think, I think in all families — you know, my father passed recently, this summer, and when all families come together for a common ceremony, the ritual of, you know, burying your dead, there’s an opportunity for peacemaking… and hopefully, there will be that.’

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey about life in the Royal Family (Picture: AP)

During her interview with the couple, Meghan – who is biracial – and Harry claimed unnamed members of the Royal Family had ‘concerns and conversations’ about how ‘dark’ the skin of her son Archie, now three, would be.

She said at the time: ‘Those were conversations family had with him.

‘They didn’t want him to be a prince or princess, not knowing what the gender would be, which would be different from protocol, and that he wasn’t going to receive security.’

The media mogul recalled losing her own father last month (Picture: Getty)

The former Suits star also said that, when she was pregnant, with her first child, she and her husband had ‘conversations’ in which they were told they ‘won’t be given security’.

Asked by Oprah if there were concerns her child would be ‘too brown’ and it would be a problem, Meghan said: ‘If that is the assumption you are making, that is a pretty safe one.’

At the time of the tell-all interview, Meghan was pregnant with daughter Lilibet, now 15 months.

Harry and Meghan joined the Prince and Princess of Wales to greet mourners at Windsor Castle (Picture: Chris Jackson – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

She claimed she was left feeling suicidal due to the scrutiny placed on her after becoming a member of the Royal Family, alleging she received no support for her mental health issues after she spoke with a senior member of the institution asking for help.

Following the Queen’s death, Prince Harry shared a tribute to his ‘granny’, writing that she is now ‘reunited’ with his grandpa, Prince Phillip, who died last year.

The Duke of Sussex said his family can ‘smile’ knowing the late monarch is ‘together in peace’ with the Duke of Edinburgh, who was 99 when he died.

The Queen’s funeral will be held on Monday, September 19 (Picture: Getty)

Harry said he hopes is granny is at ‘peace’ with husband Prince Phillip (Picture: Phil Walter/Getty Images)

‘You are already sorely missed, not just by us, but by the world over,’ he penned.

The 37-year-old fondly looked back at the ‘first meetings’ he had with the Queen, from his earliest childhood memories to the moment she met his ‘darling wife’ and hugged their great-grandchildren.

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He proceeded to say he will ‘honour’ King Charles III – who immediately became monarch following his mother’s death – after his father mentioned him in his first address to the nation as King.

‘I want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas,’ the King said in a speech on Friday.

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