On Sunday night, like many of you, i tuned in to watch Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sit down
with Oprah. And I must say, I was genuinely shocked. I was expecting Harry and Meghan to
complain about the british press, but I wasn’t expecting their complaints about the royal family.
And before we can talk about anything else,
let’s talk about the most serious thing that came out during the interview and
that is the racism that Meghan and Harry experienced regarding baby Archie’s color.
Now I should share that I am Indian,
born and raised in Mumbai but I live in the U.S. now. Discussion of skin color is something that’s
very prevalent in our culture, something the newer generations are trying to change.
I have a complex relationship with the monarchy considering the realities of
British rule over India for many centuries. My experience of racism has been real.
But none of that matters. Because of course that
does not compare to a black persons experience of racism.
And we have to all work to call out and end racism.
If Meghan and Harry did experience racism, then it should absolutely be investigated,
and the people of England should know if a future monarch is racist.
I think Meghan and Harry should absolutely speak up
about their experiences, but I have a problem with the way they have done it.
During the interview, they alluded to conversations, they alluded to who may have,
but they never gave any details, except to say that it wasn’t the queen or Prince Philip.
My problem with this approach is that it doesn’t solve anything,
because now the whole world is caught up in a who done it, and everyone is a suspect,
and people don’t know who to condemn. The lack of details or specifics also means that there
is no room for a rebuttal. No one can come out in their own defense after being accused,
and the label of “racist" is basically being applied to the most of the family.
On the other end, we have no option but to believe meghan and harry
since there is no way to actually check the facts.
I’m sorry, but this just feels incredibly manipulative, to have
everyone cast doubts on a family, without a single piece of proof or detail.
Does it solve anything? Does it help us reduce instances of racism?
Or does it just fire up more hate? I want to turn it over to you guys, and ask you - what do you
think? Do you think they went about it the right away or could they have tackled it differently?
And I’ll leave it there for now, and move onto discussing the rest of the interview.
I thought a lot about what Meghan was trying to achieve through this sit down with Oprah.
In my past videos, I’ve analyzed her and made a case for why I think she has narcissistic
personality disorder. Check out those videos if you haven’t had a chance yet.
But here I want to talk about what does Meghan want - I think she wants to be widely
liked, known, respected, overall just revered. She
asked her teams in the past to make her the most famous person in the world.
I don’t think she wants to just live this private life like she claims. She
wants to be the next Princess Diana. Which is exactly how Meghan and Harry try to paint her
during the Oprah interview - as a naive young woman, sensitive, and deeply feeling,
caught in the clutches of a powerful family intent upon suffocating her and demonizing her.
Let’s start with the first part of that, the very thing that Meghan starts the interview
with - claiming that she was naive, that she had never looked into the royal family,
that she had no idea what she was getting herself into.
This is the first of the many parallels drawn to Diana,
since Diana really was a naive young girl who had no idea what royal life would
entail. She was 19 when she was married, and had met Prince Charles about 15 times before hand.
Honestly, Meghan was not as unprepared as she says. As many of her friends have confirmed,
Meghan was obsessed with the Royal family, and Lady Colin Campbell was
informed by a source that Meghan devoured both of Lady C’s books on Princess Diana.
Meghan LOVED Diana, and in my previous videos I’ve showcased all the ways that
she has mimicked Harry’s mother including wearing her perfume to their first date.
So right off the bat, Meghan is starting with a lie that she was ill-prepared, since we haven’t
even talked about the fact that Harry and Meghan dated for a while before getting married, at which
point she lived with him and would have had solid access to information about what was in store.
So why lie?
If Meghan really wants us all to like her, the way she’s trying to get us to get there,
is for us to feel sorry for her, to see that she is the victim in this situation,
in the same way that we feel Princess Diana was the victim in her situation.
If we pity her, then we won’t attack her. We won’t catch her out for her manipulations,
her lies, her mistreatment of her staff or of her family or even of Harry or his family.
It will also push her fans to come to her defense, since they love her they want to protect
this woman, and they will come full force against anyone that even speaks slightly ill of her.
So it’s sort of genius. Because who can argue against her claims, who
can argue with her claims that she was so miserable that she wanted to end her life.
One of the realities about Meghan Markle is that she cannot handle criticism
of any kind. One of the more telling moments of the interview was just how often Meghan brought
up the fact that the palace was not “protecting her” like they promised. She doesn’t go into
specifics but we can infer what she means by this, which is that the palace was not denying
or countering the negative press that Meghan started to get a few months after the wedding.
She talks about how when the story of her making Kate cry came out,
it was a turning point. And she’s right. Before then she had mostly enjoyed positive press,
but that started to change when this story plus others about her being difficult with staff,
demanding a tiara, asking for a centuries old chapel to be airfreshened. Add that to her
families’ claims that Meghan ghosted them, meant that the people and the
press started to wonder if Meghan wasn’t really the person she was claiming to be.
And Meghan’s claim that the Palace did not defend her, were false,
since on several occasions the palace did work to counter negativity,
something they didn’t do when Kate suffered her period of negative press.
And that’s because the palace only responds if they absolutely have to.
Usually they stay silent and out of the fray.
And speaking of the Duchess of Cambridge, Katherine got her fair share of very negative
press, as did Diana, as did Sarah Ferguson, as did Princess Anne, as did Prince Charles. It happens
to every royal, and I would argue that Katherine has been the most successful at dealing with it,
since she’s kept her head down, kept working, never given the press a single story. Instead,
she and Prince william have kept going and focused on their work.
The result? The negative press died down, and Kate earned her stripes,
and since has enjoyed the love of her people and the reporters.
But Meghan and Harry can’t do that, because Meghan primarily believes that she stands alone - that no
one has ever or will ever experience the pain and negativity and criticism that she has.
She doesn’t see that this is par for the course and that she needs to ride it out. No
she feels that it’s unfair, and it needs to stop this instant.
And there it is - her intense desire to control. That’s why the support the palace did give her
wasn’t enough. When she left the family, we’ve seen how her PR team has worked to clean up
her image, repaint her in a positive light, with fawning pieces about her personality,
about her endurance coming out almost daily. And Finding Freedom (a book that we now know for sure
she contributed to though we all suspected it) had the following to say about her -
“The rising sun washed over her makeshift yoga garden, while an exotic flock of birds
that looked as if they had just had their tails dipped in pots of colorful paints serenaded her.”
But it’s not working for her. Instead, Meghan’s getting more and more critics everyday.
And that’s because she’s trying so hard to cultivate a perfect image, and people can
see-through it. Something feels weird when we see someone trying so hard to be this
perfect person, and use words like authentic, but we can see it doesn’t add up.
Because a good person would have a good relationship with their family,
would have a good relationship with friends, with their staff, with their in-laws. But this argument
that everyone is against her, everyone hates her, and wants her to fail? What? Your family wants
you to fail? Your childhood friends want you to fail? Your staff that all quit because you were
bullying them are making up lies? I mean how much smoke do we need to see before we call it fire?
If Meghan and Harry want to live a private life, and have their privacy,
go for it. Who in their right mind would want to stop them?
But what I have a problem with, is their desire to sell us this story that meghan is perfect,
that she does no wrong, but everyone else sucks, her father, her half-sister, Prince William and
Katherine, the queen, Prince Charles, the press, her staff, everyone everyone is to be blamed.
There is no sense of personal responsibility. At no point could Megahn recognize that she did
anything wrong, except for being naive. It’s all on everyone else.
And you know wheat to that I say - Bull