Oprah Reportedly Says No to Harry and Meghan as Sussex Criticism Mounts

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media at Lo and Welcome through Palace Entry. I am your Host, Mark Francis. Oprah Winfrey reportedly has no interest in sitting down with Prince Harry and Meghan Markel for another major interview, despite claims that the Sussexes have considered returning to the format that produced one of the biggest royal stories of twenty twenty one. A report from Rob Shooter's Naughty but Nice Gossip blog says Harry and Meghan have discussed another high profile interview as they promote new projects, but according to the unningned sources quoted in the report, Oprah isn't interested. One source said Oprah took plenty of criticism after the first special. They're talking about it again because they both have projects to promote and they know interviews generate headlines. They hoped Oprah might be interested in a fresh chapter about healing. She isn't.

0:57 She has absolutely nothing to gain by stepping back into the royal drama. As far as she's concerned. That story has been told. She doesn't want to become part of their publicity strategy. In The Daily Beast, Tom Sykes asks when she decided to take on Martha Stewart. What was Megan Mirkle thinking? Sikes writes, if you look carefully at what Martha actually said, she was talking in pretty vague terms. She certainly wasn't claiming Megan was spilling every detail of what happened at Highgrove. What she said was I had dinner with Megan Markel the other night. We were both guests at a dinner party in California, and she had just gotten back from the Palace. I didn't talk to her, really, more than to say a couple words, but I know she was talking about it. Meghan then did something incredibly stupid.

1:42 She seems to have got the host of the party to call up People magazine and say that Martha's account was simply untrue and that Megan didn't talk about her European vacation other than to say the family had a great time. Worse, they called Martha confused. The only sensible thing for Megan to have done was to have followed Martha's example when she was sent to prison, suck it up, or, as the late Queen Elizabeth II would have put it, never complain, never explain. Meghan says, motherhood is her superpower. And that her five year old daughter, Princess Lilibet, has become an unlikely source of courage when she begins doubting herself. The Duchess of Sussex made the comments while answering questions from children as part of the promotion for Cookie Queen's, the documentary produced by Megan and Prince Harry's Archwall Productions.

2:30 During a video question and answer session with in Style, Meghan was asked what she considers her own superpower. Her answer was immediate, being a mum, I feel like we have superpowers because we juggle it all and enjoy it all with grace and grit at the same time. And when Meghan was asked what makes her feel brave, she pointed specifically to Lillab Meghan said, every day when I feel a little bit like, oh gosh, can I do this? I go Lily would do it. Megan was also asked the very important question of which gold Scout cookie she would be. She picked the Treefoil, saying Treefoil, I think it's classic. It's classic, it's sweet, it's all the same color, and it's like tonal dressing. It's the worst answer ever.

3:12 Meghan is facing another round of criticism over the way she presents her marriage to Prince Ariy on social media. The latest criticism sentence on a video Megan shared during celebrations for her forty fifth birthday. In the clip, Megan was dancing in a kitchen while wearing a birthday tiara, pajamas and a shirt carrying the phrase It's giving Missus. Dan Wakefor, the founder of Celebrity Intelligence, discussed the post during appearance on The Royals and Sensed podcast and argue, it's like everything with Megan, it feels like a curated content strategy. E went further, saying it didn't feel natural. It felt very orchestrated. It's giving missus t shirt. It shows everything about what Meghan is right now, still very much selling the marriage as the brand. It didn't feel natural and that's Megan's big problem. Megan has been wearing a new diamond ring for nearly a year, but its origins remain a mystery. The Duchess gave followers one of their clearest looks yet at the ring in a recent Instagram video promoting the launch for her as ever BlackBerry spread.

4:11 The pear shaped diamond is worn on Meghan's right ring finger, and is estimated to be between five and six carrots. Meghan appears to have first worn the ring publicly in September of twenty twenty five at the one eight h five Live event. She wore it again the following month at the Balenciaga show during Paris Fashion Week, and has since been photographed wearing it at events including the NBA All Star Game and a screening of Cookie Queens. The New As Ever video, however, offered a particularly close view as Meghan prepared an ice cream Sunday. Town and Country notes that the diamond appears to be larger than the center stone in Meghan's engagement ring from Prince Harry. Harry originally designed the ring with the court jewelers Cleeve and Company.

4:52 It features a central diamond sourced from Botswana, surrounded by two smaller diamonds from Princess Diana's collection. Speaking about the engagement ring during the couple's twenty seventeen BBC interview, Meghan said, it's incredible, everything about Harry's thoughtfulness and the inclusion of Princess Diana's stones, and obviously not being able to meet his mum. It's so important to me to know that she's a part of this with us. It's incredibly special to be able to have this ring which sort of links where you come from and Botswana, which is important to us. It's perfect. The engagement ring was redesigned in twenty nineteen, reportedly with the involvement of jeweler Lorraine Schwartz, and Meghan has occasionally appeared without it, wearing only her Welsh gold wedding band or other jewelry. More recently, she has also been photographed wearing an Ura smart ring with a gold and diamond sleeve from designer Logan Hollowell, but unlike many of Meghan's other pieces, the designer behind the pear shaped diamond has not been identified. Writing for The Daily Mail, Sir Eviane looked back at what she described as Harry Meighan's decade of drama, beginning with the early days of their relationship and continuing through their departure from royal duties and the controversies that follow. Vine argued that while Harry and Meghan have frequently spoken about emotions, mental health and their personal experiences, she believes they have often failed to recognize how their own decisions affected the people around them. She wrote, for two people who claim to be so in tune with their feelings and those of others.

6:17 Time and again they have demonstrated a complete lack of emotional intelligence combined with a weapon's grade sense of entitlement. They are so wrapped up in their own drama, so insulated in their bubble of privilege, they fail to realize how thoroughly charmed their existence is, and that is a most unattractive trait. Vine was particularly critical of Harry's decision to publicly discuss his grievances with the monarchy after he and Meghan stepped away as working royals in twenty twenty. She wrote, at a time when the royal family needed Harry most, they not only slammed the door in their face, but it was had tried to burn the place down on the way out. No one is suggesting he doesn't have a right to be hurt, but weaponizing your pain as he has done, only perpetuates the cycle of sadness or palace in just a moment. A political debate over the definition of white British has taken an unusual royal turn, because under one recently promoted definition, not even King Charles qualifies l We see reports that Rupert Lowe, leader of the Restore Party, has cited research associated with political commentator Matt Goodwin that defines a white britain as someone whose parents were both born in the UK. Applied that definition literally to the royal family and the results become rather striking.

7:38 King Charles would not meet the definition because his father, Prince Philip, was born in Greece. They would also exclude charles siblings, Princess Anne Andrew mount Baton Windsor and Prince Edward, since they had the same parents. The issue has attracted fresh attention following the birth of Prince Eugenie and Jack brook Banks's third child. The daughter was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on August third. Under the definition being discussed, her place of birth isn't actually the important factor. What matters is where her parents were born. There you have it. If you'd like to email us of addresses The Palace Intrigue at email dot com, please follow us Spotify or Apple. If you're on Spotify, you can leave us a comment. If you're on Apple, hit that button up there that says listen uninterrupted and get the show commercial free. Along with thousands of others from Callaoger Shark medium him Mark Francis.

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