Monday - will you watch....and why?

It would be nice wouldn’t it if M&H could get their angst out there once and for all, on a huge platform, then ride off into the sunset to enjoy a quiet, private life, happy together with each other and their children. Perhaps then we could all get to draw a line in the sand.
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Elegran and WW2, good posts. I sincerely hope this is the swan song and they can disappear over the horizon to their perfect life. Alas, I think it will be one of those series where it all goes on just that little bit too long for the rest of us to stomach.

The clips I've seen seem to be full of West Coast psychobabble. Don't think I could sit through 2 hours of it.

I loved your comment Elegran.

This has been a really interesting (and fortunately non-confrontational thread) Pantglas which I’ve enjoyed reading and piqued my interest in Oprah herself.

Thank you for posting it.

Who really wants to watch two ungrateful, self centered,
selfish individuals telling everyone who will listen to them that
the R.F are living in the dark ages and they have made sure that M and H are not welcome in the family. Most of these
Royal interviews do them more harm than good and this one does not seem to bode well for them. They need to leave quietly it seems M.M. has had her fifteen minutes of fame so game over.

Mr. S. is going to watch it, well if he can stay awake long enough.

Well put, Elegran.

Some good points well made Elegran.
Pantglas, looks as though Orlin is the only curious male.

No I won't be watching it. It is just a family disagreement which in a lower-middle class setting would be a non-event to everyone else.

A younger member, after reaching the age when he is expected to settle down, decides that he doesn't want to join the family firm but to strike out on his own. His wife doesn't want to join it either, unless she can be on the management board, preferably with a casting vote.

On being told that they will start at the bottom like everyone else and conform to company policy, they flounce out and announce their intention of starting afresh in another country. However, they mean to use one of the parent company's marketing labels for their new firm - which doesn't go down well. An employee leaving, say, IBM, wouldn't be allowed to use marketing material from IBM. That is business etiquette.

An opportunity to join a major TV show to talk about how badly-done-by they are gives the wife the opportunity to use her professional skills at eloquently portraying emotion (which she may or may not be feeling at that moment) and use past traumas. This is to contrast that (deliberately?) with the older "stiff-upper-lip, do it formally and don't fall apart" traditions of the more senior members of the firm so as to emphasise her point that she is modern, open, put-upon and "right" and they are hidebound, cold and "wrong".

I daresay it will give her career a helping hand to spend a while on a high-viewing site discussing how she took on the world's most famous establishment, but I think I'll give it a miss.

Thanks for all your responses which pretty much mirror my friends and family in that most blokes are totally uninterested and the women are dived into will and won’t!

I’m hoping against hope that Oprah asks the difficult questions rather than give them an easy ride like Bashir did with Diana whose questions didn’t include follow-ups to her answers.

If the RF have any sense, they won’t watch. They should treat it with the contempt it deserves.

I have no interest in it, but will probably watch anyway as the papers are going to be full of it - and I would rather make my own decisions.

It will have been totally scripted anyway - Oprah will have been told what to ask by Meghan, and answers will have been well prepared in what H & M think are appropriate responses. Their American hangers-on will think it is wonderful of course. The Royal Family will be too polite to say what they might privately think.

I agree maddyone two hours is much too long. Expect OW will be going all round the houses (round the Wrekin) and be terribly sycophantic. I will record it and watch bits of it so I can give an honest opinion. My husband said he would rather stick pins in his eyes.

I'm not going to watch. I have a feeling that any salient features will be unavoidable over the next day or two. Hopefully the couple will then be able to have the obscurity they wish. Or maybe not!

I shall not watch it.
Poor taste, deeply insincere and made to upset others.
Surprised at how angry it has made me.

I suppose it depends if you enjoy soap operas.

If you do this has all the ingredients to make a block buster, family at war, sexual perversions, profligacy, misogyny, racism, lies, secrecy, glamorous people, power, political intrigue, palace intrigue, a child that was mentally injured by losing his mother, trolling, massive profits for the media resulting from the interview, US and U.K. rivalry, on and on.

So I would highly recommend it to those who love soap operas of this nature, otherwise I recommend a good book. I can give you some titles if you are interested???

Yes, JenniferEccles, that's why my guess is Harry will keep out of the way for the RFamily bashing bit, then enter stage left for the press/racism scene. Maybe Archie comes on for the curtain call?

I will not be watching it, prefer to watch paint dry instead.

I am not sure if I will watch it. They are out for revenge and it won't end well particularly for Harry.

Depending of course on how far madam is prepared to go, isn’t there going to be a small part of Harry which will feel very uncomfortable hearing his family torn apart by his wife?
Even if assuming he was as much up for the move as she was, could this be the moment when the scales fall from his eyes and he sees her for the manipulative woman we all know her to be?

Can he not see that not only has she completely cut off her entire family apart from her mother, but that she is attempting to do exactly the same with Harry and his?

Probably will watch and will try to block out the tutting from the DH corner.

It is already a circus.

Harry carries s lot of anger.
But what I find strange is that he is very vocal about losing his mother at a young age, but does not seem to be concerned that his own children will have 2 parents full stop!

As pointed out himself, Meghan apparently has no family of her own

Harry is prepared to publically drop his family on front of whole world for his 30 pieces of silver.

Interviews in a few years?
Archie or sibling talking about the extended family that they never had?

I will be watching, but fully expect it to be as cringeworthy as Diana's, Charles' and Andrew's previous interviews - presumably which were broadcast to 'put the record straight' and get the public on side; whereas in actual fact they had the reverse effect and were just plain embarrassing. Pity none of them listened to advice - never
complain, never explain, don't wash your dirty linen in public etc, etc.

I really do think if H & M expect that this interview will make them more popular and gain the public's approval, they are sadly misguided. Far better to have gone quietly, keep away from publicity and out of the limelight, all the while carrying out their philanthropic and charitable deeds without any public fanfare. Now that would be something to admire them for ?

I think if he were to watch it, watching him watch it could well be more interesting Urmstongran. Thank you for the flowers.

P H is making the same mistake as his mother did.
And that backfired big time.