Meghan and Harry remain vague, because who are they without the Royal Family?
"Oh my god," shouts Meghan when she sees the pastel-colored Better Living setting in which she greets Oprah Winfrey euphorically. "You are actually pregnant," she calls back. "Do you want to tell us the gender?" Meghan nods immediately. "In a moment, when my husband joins us later, we'll tell you." Scripted Reality can be so beautiful. 30 seconds airtime, the cliffhanger is in place.
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It's about the couple's ability to survive in American show business, where sympathy and credibility are the only valid currencies. "What's your story" is the all-important question.
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So Meghan is stepping it up, because she knows that you have to deliver in such a setting. During her first pregnancy with her son Archie in 2019, there were several conversations in the innermost circle about the possible dark skin color of the baby, she says vaguely. And she doesn't want to tell her who that was, asks Winfrey gently - because of course that would be the sensation. "It would be very damaging to them," replies Meghan.
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Meghan and Harry don't mention the word depression, instead they and Winfrey refer to the joint series on mental health planned for Apple's streaming service. A video overlay, a beach scene in black and white, shows Archie, who is almost two years old. In between there are generic phrases, hints about mental crises that kept her awake at night, unbearable conditions at court, lack of security, lack of police protection. Halfway through, they've run out of steam.
Harry remains relatively stiff and aloof. In some places he even comes across as a defiant kid who refuses to admit who hit whom first. And so the viewer gets the impression that his wife is pushing him, with pleading glances, to unpack more. "How's your relationship with your brother," asks Winfrey. "And your father, does he answer the phone again?" Harry, who obviously did not go through coaching for protagonists of American emotion television, remains non-committal.
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The two, who resigned as senior royals last year, want to tell their version of the story. The result is a sometimes confused chat, without any real new knowledge. The fact that the 1,200-year-old institution of the British monarchy is riddled with racist tendencies should not be tolerated, but to be honest, it comes as little surprise because of the slow processing of British colonial history. Prince Harry, who, in memory of his mother Princess Diana, has often spoken in recent years about periods of depression and his fear that history might repeat itself, can add little new.
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The announced tour of Harry and Meghan's $ 14.6 million estate begins and ends in the chicken coop called Archie's Chick Inn. "We want to live authentically," says Meghan, sitting between the chickens - with shiny, open hair that is undulated to perfection.
And it is precisely this scene that symbolizes the couple's ambivalent world: preaching simplicity, living in luxury. Demanding privacy, but meaning maximum control over your own PR activities. That Harry and Meghan, after they recently had to finally give up all their royal patronages, do not want a complete break with the Queen and brother William, becomes clear when the prince repeatedly expresses the deep respect he feels for his grandmother. Meghan also speaks of her sister-in-law Kate as a "good person".
Because for business deals, the Harry & Meghan brand needs the favor of the largest possible global audience and thus the guarantee that many people will continue to be interested in them. If this capital melts away, the foundation of the business disappears and with it all the beautiful assets. And this capital is Harry's family, which Meghan married into. As far away as they want to be from their annoying relatives: Without the British Royal Family, they are just a couple speculating on Big Business with a mix of show business and charity.