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Are We Ready For The Big Reveal?

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Blossoming Mon 08-Mar-21 10:17:58

Oprah Winfrey’s interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be broadcast at 9pm on ITV. I’m sure a lot of Grans will be watching as I can see it has garnered a great deal of interest on Gransnet. Oprah Winfrey is an experienced and formidable interviewer. People seem unaware she was a respected journalist before her ‘talk show’ took off and she gives nobody an easy time, though she is always respectful and professional. I shan’t be watching, it has already been shown in the US and the internet is full of it. Racism and snobbery make good TV, apparently.

Popcorn at the ready!

Boz Mon 08-Mar-21 17:49:25

I so agree with EllenVallin that is grossly unfeeling to pile all this on a 94 year old with a sick husband. Shame on them. I really hope they get stripped of their titles.

MayBee70 Mon 08-Mar-21 18:46:53

annsixty

My admiration for Meghan as an actor has risen 100%.
She was either acting when she was a member of the Royal family seeming to love the great occasions and the adulation she received from some, or she is acting now with her tales of suicidal thoughts and how she was treated by the family.
I also believe that William’s children are the only titled GGC .
I could be wrong but can’t be bothered to check that fact.

You can usually see in someone’s face when they are in inner turmoil. I never saw that in Meghans eyes.

Esspee Mon 08-Mar-21 18:53:20

There are so many memes doing the rounds today. This one touches on quite a few Gransnet threads.

ginny Mon 08-Mar-21 22:37:55

Not watching. Totally disinterested. Plenty of other more worthy things to worry about.

eazybee Mon 08-Mar-21 22:43:34

Just so annoyed that this ridiculous interview seems to have permeated all the news programmes, television and radio. I didn't watch it, but the news bulletins before and after were full of talking heads, so much time and energy wasted on this worthless couple.

Anniebach Mon 08-Mar-21 22:46:28

I hope the royal family remain silent, surely they will

Shinamae Mon 08-Mar-21 22:49:07

Really couldn’t care less

EllanVannin Mon 08-Mar-21 23:01:41

They didn't look hard done by to me !

Kamiso Tue 09-Mar-21 00:13:19

It seems that parliament has been approached by the palace today with a view to removing the titles.

Most of the accusations are against Charles because he turned off the money tap and stopped taking their calls - left poor Harry down to his last £28m, which they then had to start using to pay for security! And an unnamed person (not HM or Phillip) asked Harry what colour the baby’s skin would be.

Kamiso Tue 09-Mar-21 00:17:23

This is from excerpts put out on the web. We watched Deutschland 89 this evening instead of the pity party.

Two hours of it would try the patience of a saint.

Jane43 Tue 09-Mar-21 09:38:23

Apparently one of the US newspapers has a big headline ‘Drama Queen’, presumably this applies to Meghan, I can’t see it being Queen Elizabeth. They have also fact checked Meghan’s main claims and she doesn’t come out of it very well. Meghan’s father was on GMTV this morning and he looks a broken man and completely bewildered. For a man approaching 40 and wealthy by most people’s standards to complain about being cut off financially is ridiculous. He said he was living on his inheritance from Diana but didn’t mention what he was left by the Queen Mother, I believe he and William shared about £14 million but Harry received a larger share than William. Presumably his £2.5 million a year from the Duchy Of Cornwall has been stopped, if not it certainly will be when The Duchy is handed over to William. I really liked Meghan before but my opinion has changed, I suppose that makes me racist.

Franbern Tue 09-Mar-21 16:26:35

I did not watch. Have nó interest, whatever.in anything to do with this whole lot of over-rich, over-privileged family.

If I hear again, about this mans traumatic, tragic childhood, I will scream. Just remembering how many tens of thousands of children have seen parents and siblings maimed and killed in warzones, have tried to escape, even taking highly dangerous small dinghies to get across seas and then those that have made it, being locked up in dreadful camps.

Blinko Tue 09-Mar-21 16:33:37

I really liked Meghan before but my opinion has changed, I suppose that makes me racist.

Yep, that makes at least two of us. What a disappointment she has turned out to be.

adaunas Tue 09-Mar-21 17:21:53

I didn’t/won’t watch. I wonder if they realise that that little clip will be analysed forever and every little slip they made or make that varies from what she/he said will be brought up over and over again.