1983 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Raising the issues of racism and the dysfunctional Royal life, Meghan-Harry’s tell-all interview in the garden setting with Oprah Winfrey has sure lived up the hype it created. While the Royals have opted for dignified silence on accusations of being racist, distant and non-cooperative to the ‘American princess’, reactions from around the world have people divided.
Mental health and racism were the two major concerns raised across the globe. With their colonial past, it’s not the first time that ‘racism’ issue has been raised. Queen Victoria took Maharaja Duleep Singh and Princess of Coorg, Gowramma, later known as Gowramma, into the Royal fold but never fully accepted the same. Lately, the Windsor’s complete silence over Black Lives Matter fuelled the allegations further.
March 9, 2021 Share
Prince Harry and Meghan’s explosive TV interview divided people around the world on Monday, rocking an institution that is struggling to modernize with claims of racism and callousness toward a woman struggling with suicidal thoughts.
During the two-hour appearance with Oprah Winfrey, Harry also revealed the problems had ruptured relations with his father, Prince Charles, and brother, Prince William, illuminating the depth of the family divisions that led the couple to step away from royal duties and move to California last year.
The palace has not yet responded to the interview, in which Meghan described feeling so isolated and miserable inside the royal family that she had suicidal thoughts and said a member of the family had “concerns” about the color of her unborn child’s skin.
Leaders around the world were asked about the interview, and citizens of many countries had an opinion.
In Accra, Ghana, Devinia Cudjoe said that hearing that a member of the royal family was worried about the color of the skin of an unborn child was insulting to people of the Commonwealth, the grouping of Britain and its former colonies that is headed by the queen. That is pure racism, Cudjoe said. (The) Commonwealth is supposed to foster unity, oneness amongst black people, amongst white people. But if we are hearing things like this, I think that is below the belt.
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