She appeared, teary-eyed, in a joint interview with Prince Harry on US broadcaster CBS on Sunday, to announce the launch of her parent support group, for those whose children have been harmed or even taken their own lives as a result of poisonous content on social media.
Meghan, who revealed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey three years ago that she considered taking her own life while a royal, said she hoped that by speaking out she could help others.
“I just didn’t want to be alive anymore,” she told CBS News anchor Jane Pauley.
Meghan Markle’s interview with Prince Harry on US network CBS on Sunday
Meghan has shunned her seriously ill father, Thomas, who paid for her private education and cared for her when her mother disappeared for years during her childhood, writes Amanda Platell
‘When you’ve been through any level of pain or trauma, I think part of our healing journey – certainly part of mine – is being able to be really open about it.
“I would never want anyone else to feel that way” and “if expressing what I’ve overcome can save someone, I’ll take the hit for it,” he added nobly.
I am no stranger to the devastating impact of suicide. My beloved grandfather took his own life on his third attempt. I have seen the heartbreak rip out of families. So I have every sympathy for Meghan for having suffered through those thoughts.
Fortunately, the Duchess appears to have recovered, although, as she herself says, it is a journey that is still ongoing.
But how brazen of Meghan to use this interview as an opportunity to promote herself as the “compassionate duchess,” when on other occasions she has shown so little respect or empathy towards others.
Like most self-proclaimed victims, Meghan often seeks to blame others. She believes that the dream she had of a life beyond luxury and wealth as a duchess was shattered by the Queen, supported by her gravely ill husband, Prince Philip, Prince William and her father, King Charles. She and Harry believed they had no choice but to betray the Queen and Charles, William and Kate, in their bitter Oprah interview, their Netflix documentary and then Harry’s unforgivable memoir, Spare.
But let’s start with that private dossier investigating alleged allegations of systematic “bullying” towards her staff when she was a working royal (Meghan vehemently denied this), which the Firm loyally buried before it could surface. I’d love to hear what those staff members who made accusations had to say about Meghan’s “compassion.”
And then there’s her disrespect towards the Windsors, who took her in before she slandered them. Not just by being cruel to her and unsupportive of her mental health issues, but by branding some of them racist, telling Oprah that members of the Royal Family had expressed “concerns and conversations about how dark[her baby’s]skin might be.” By dropping this bombshell in such a cryptic way, Meghan surely knew she was cruelly kicking off a royal witch hunt.
Then, in December 2023, just months before Kate revealed her devastating cancer diagnosis, Meghan’s spokesperson, “royal correspondent” Omid Scobie, who collaborated with the Duchess on her first book about the Sussexes, Finding Freedom, “accidentally” revealed that the alleged “royal racists” were King Charles and Kate via the Dutch-language version of the book. The constant attacks from Montecito and the couple’s supporters must not have been good for the Princess of Wales’s health in recent years.
Let’s not forget Meghan’s continued estrangement from her frail father Thomas, who paid for her private education and cared for her for years during her childhood. She has turned her back on him, denying him the right to meet not only her husband, Prince Harry, but also her grandchildren Archie and Lilibet. I’m sure Thomas would not describe his daughter as “compassionate.”
Meghan’s emotional interview with friend and ITV presenter Tom Bradby on a trip to Africa when he asked her how she was doing.
The gentle impression Meghan gave during the CBS interview was a far cry from the often indignant duchess portrayed in royal expert Robert Jobson’s new biography of the Princess of Wales, recently published in the Mail. Jobson revealed, among other things, that Meghan was “shocked” by the disparity between William and Kate’s lavish Kensington Palace apartment and the Sussexes’ humble two-bedroom Nottingham Cottage.
As I said, Meghan seems to want to be seen as a victim at all times. Recall her tearful interview with ITV presenter Tom Bradby (a friend of Harry’s), on a trip to Africa in 2019, when he asked her how she was doing. Meghan replied: “Look, any woman, especially when they’re pregnant, is really vulnerable and that became really challenging.
“And then when you have a newborn baby, you know. And especially for a woman, it’s a lot. And also thank you for asking, because not many people have asked me if I’m okay.”
Forgive mothers everywhere for not sympathising with the complaints of Meghan, who enjoyed success, wealth and privileges that most women cannot imagine. It didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now.
As Jobson wrote in his book, not just Britons, but Americans too, have had enough of the privileged Sussexes spreading dirt on the royals. The couple’s biggest paychecks (from Netflix and their memoirs) are long gone. How will they fund their lifestyle as their popularity here and abroad plummets?
One thing is certain: Meghan’s father-in-law, King Charles, will not come to the rescue. As People magazine revealed last week, the father’s bank is not answering Harry’s calls or letters.
It is possible that, like the rest of us, the King is fed up with the veneer of compassion the Sussexes continue to impose on the world.
