Meghan Markle is thinking about doing another tell-all interview following the various setbacks she and her family have faced since moving back to the United Kingdom, and Prince Harry is fully supportive of the move.
An insider told Heatworld this week that the Duchess of Sussex, 45, is well aware of the “uproar” her 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey caused, however she felt it was necessary at the time to defend herself against the “onslaught of negativity”.
“Now, she thinks it’s time for her to speak out again. She wants a Diana moment – in the same way that she shocked everyone with her Panorama interview,” the source tells the publication.
In 1995, the then-Princess of Wales sensationally claimed that “there were three of us in this marriage” in an interview with BBC’s Martin Bashir, laying bare the relationship between then-Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
In response to the comparison between Meghan and Diana, the insider adds that some of the Sussexes’ PR team are “worried” about the backlash another sit-down could receive, but Harry, 42, “seems to be up for it”.
“He remembers what his mother had to go through when she felt she was being gagged by the royal family, and that’s not what Harry wants for Meghan. He doesn’t want her to feel silenced – he wants her to speak out.”
Five years ago, Meghan and Harry sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss their decision to step back from their roles as working royals and move to the United States.
In the sit-down, Meghan confessed to struggling with suicidal thoughts while dealing with the intense media scrutiny and that she was denied help from the Firm when she asked for psychiatric care.
Elsewhere, the couple revealed that there had been conversations about their unborn son Archie’s skin colour in the lead-up to his birth.
When Meghan was asked by the TV host whether she was “silent or silenced” during her time with the institution, she replied “the latter”.
The bombshell interview marked the first of many tell-alls to come from the couple about their tenure as working royals, with the Sussexes releasing the 2022 Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan and the Duke releasing his own memoir in 2023, titled Spare.
It’s been a month since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex relocated to the United Kingdom with their children, Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, and the couple have faced their fair share of speed bumps since touching down in Harry’s home country.
The couple announced two weeks ago that they had decided to move their children to another school over security concerns posed by traffic in the area.
It’s understood the security team had only tested the route from the Sussexes’ home to the school during the summer break and were shocked when a 35-minute journey turned into an hour-long slog.
Furthermore, it has been reported that Meghan’s personal phone number was leaked after she joined a school parents’ group chat the day before Archie and Lilibet were due to start at their new school.
Screenshots of a message allegedly sent by the Duchess to the WhatsApp conversation made the rounds, showing the mum-of-two being added to the chat and welcomed by the group’s admin.
To make matters worse, the couple were blindsided when King Charles issued official guidance on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s positions within the Royal Family, noting that there would be “no change” to their current status despite their move back to the UK and that their styles as His and Her Royal Highness “remain in abeyance and are not used”.
According to a representative for the Sussexes, Harry and Meghan were “a little surprised” by the letter’s release, with separate sources claiming the couple was given just two minutes to digest the statement’s contents before being told it had been shared with the public.
The Sussexes arrived in the United Kingdom last month to embark on a new life after living in the United States for six years.
The family are understood to be staying at a billionaire friend’s property in the Cotswolds while they look for a more permanent home in the area.