Prince Harry e Meghan Markle, with the bombshell interview to Oprah Winfrey where they tore the royal family apart, they have unleashed a planetary earthquake. Rivers of ink are pouring all over the world on their shocking revelations. The Sussexes, however, they are certainly not the first royals who have granted television interviews capable of shaking the Crown.
The pioneer was Edward VIII, who in 1969 appeared on the BBC, in front of twelve million viewers, along with Wallis Simpson, the multi-divorced American for whom thirty years before he had left the throne of England triggering an institutional crisis and a planetary scandal.
Fifty years before Harry and Meghan, Edoardo and Wallis, the first couple of royal “exiles”, from the living room of their luxurious Parisian apartment made explosive statements about their need for “independence” from “an establishment full of melancholy, bitterness and misogyny”.
Nobody will ever forget Lady’s explosive revelations Diana to the BBC. It was 1995 when the princess shocked the world by candidly speaking of hers «wedding a little too crowded», Camilla Parker Bowles case, with Charles of England: “There were three of us.”
A year later, in 1996, it was Sarah Ferguson, now divorced from Andrew of York, to seriously embarrass the queen. Spreading on TV that “Royal life is not a fairy tale”. Because of a series of rules impossible for her to digest. For example at Buckingham Palace “the windows can’t be opened that much. Because from the outside they must all turn out aligned. But I I wanted to open them wide! But no. I couldn’t do it. It was wrong””.
Jumping to much more recent times, another precedent dates back to 2019, which again sees Harry and Meghan as protagonists. The Sussexes, in the docu-interview Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, broadcast on the ITV channel in October, had vented against the British tabloid press that was poisoning his life: “We must live, not surviveMeghan had said. Also on that occasion, Harry had admitted for the first time that yes, with William there was a rift: «We are brothers. We will always be brothers. At the moment, however, we are certainly on different paths “.
Also in 2019, the Crown thought about shaking off the small screen Andrew of York. The third son of Elizabeth II granted the BBC an interview about his relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. He wanted to clean up his image, but instead he managed to plunge it even further into the abyss. The prince, eighth in line of succession to the throne, it rejected with little conviction the allegations of sexual assault on minors, tried to justify his friendship with the financier accused of pedophilia and did not express no regrets or empathy towards the victims, as the British media pointed out. In short, the interview was a “media catastrophe”. The Times on the front page called it “a car accident”, a reporter from Guardian he added: “I’ve never seen anything so disastrous.” So disastrous that the queen, after, “Dismissed” the son from royal duties.
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