adminLONDON. – The Duchess of Sussex has claimed Prince Harry feels he has “lost his father.”
She also warned she is now free to “say anything” laying bare their ongoing rift with the Royal family. The Duchess, who spoke of her joy at being “able to tell (her) own story in a lengthy US magazine interview, issued what will be interpreted as a message to her in-laws.
But, she said: “I’ve really made an active effort, especially knowing that I can say anything.”
The latest revelations come a week after the Duchess of Sussex detailed how their son, Archie, narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom, during their royal tour to South Africa in 2019.
She said this in the Archetypes podcast, in which she was in conversation with tennis superstar Serena Williams.
She said Archie’s then maid, Lauren, a Zimbabwean who liked to tie him on her back with a cloth, had taken him downstairs with her instead, while she went to get a snack, just as the heater in the nursery caught fire.
The interview with The Cut, in which the Duchess invited a reporter into her home and on the nursery run with Archie, included further claims about the Sussexes’ difficult relationship with the Royal family.
She said she is “still healing” from her experiences and added that “I’ve never had to sign anything that restricts me from talking.
“I can talk about my whole experience and make a choice not to.”
She claimed the Duke also feels he has “lost my dad”, comparing it with the breakdown of her own relationship with her father, Thomas Markle.
Speaking of her leaked letter to her father, which has since been the subject of a court case, she said of the time: “Harry said to me, ‘I lost my dad in this process.’
“It doesn’t have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that’s his decision.”
She also criticised the lack of training she was given in how to behave as a member of the Duke’s family, noting: “That would’ve been really helpful. That would’ve been a very key tutorial to have had in advance of all this.”
Prince Harry, who makes a cameo appearance in the interview as has become customary in the Duchess’ media appearances, spoke of how the Sussexes now share an office at their Montecito home.
“Most people that I know and many of my family, they aren’t able to work and live together,” he said, with what the writer describes as a “vocal eye roll” at the mention of “family”.
“It’s actually really weird because it’d seem like a lot of pressure,” he added: “But it just feels natural and normal.”
The Duchess went on to complain about the couple’s treatment while they were considering leaving the Royal Family, claiming they offered to move to another Commonwealth country.
They were not, she claimed, allowed to work and remain in the family.
“That, for whatever reason, is not something that we were allowed to do, even though several other members of the family do that exact thing.” – The Telegraph.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter