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The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, spoke about the importance of forgiveness during a long interview with an American magazine. The 41-year-old Meghan told The Cut that “forgiving takes a lot of effort” when asked about their relationship.
“I really made an active effort, especially knowing I can say anything,” he said. She also spoke about her husband Prince Harry’s relationship with her father Prince Charles.
Asked by journalist Alison P Davis about the impact of the lawsuit she opened against the British tabloid The Mail on Sunday for having “illegally” published a personal letter of her own, Meghan replied: “Harry told me, ‘I lost my father in this lawsuit’.
“It didn’t have to be for the two of them like it was for me, but that’s his decision.”
A spokeswoman for the Duchess later told BBC News that Meghan was referring to her own father, from whom she is estranged, and was saying she hoped the same would not happen to her husband.
A source close to Prince Charles told the PA news agency he would be saddened if Harry thought their relationship was lost, adding: “The Prince of Wales loves his two sons.”
Davis, who has interviewed celebrities like Jada Pinkett Smith and Lena Dunham, asked Meghan if she thought there was room for forgiveness between her and the royal family and her own family.
The Duchess replied, “I think forgiveness is very important. It takes a lot more energy not to forgive… But forgiving takes a lot of effort. I really made an active effort, especially knowing I can say anything.”
In the 6,450-word interview, Meghan also spoke about her fears that staying in the UK might have exposed her son, Archie, 3, to excessive media attention; she criticized the lack of control she had over the release of family photographs when she was a senior royal; she said she felt that “just by existing, we were upsetting the dynamics of the hierarchy” in the UK; and revealed that she was considering returning to Instagram.
Prince Harry told Davis he didn’t believe some members of the royal family could live and work as closely together as he and his wife.
The article described how the couple ran their company, Archewell, sharing the same desk in a shared office indoors.
“Most people I know and many of my family are not able to work and live together,” said Prince Harry. “It’s actually really weird because it feels like a lot of pressure. But it feels natural and normal.”
Prince Harry, 37, previously said his father Prince Charles “stopped taking my calls” after the couple stepped down as senior royals in 2020.
Under the agreement, the couple relinquished the title of Her Royal Highness and were able to work towards becoming financially independent. Harry kept the title of prince, because it’s a title he was given at birth.
Before stepping away, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have envisioned continuing to work as royalty in the Commonwealth. Meghan told The Cut that she believed this proposal was not “reinventing the wheel”.
“This, for whatever reason, is not something we were allowed to do, although several other family members do just that,” he added.
The couple, who now live in Montecito, Calif., and also have a one-year-old daughter, Lilibet, have signed contracts with Spotify and Netflix since leaving the UK. The interview with The Cut was part of the campaign to promote the Duchess’ Spotify podcast, Archetypes, launched last week.
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