Prince Harry tells Oprah he worried history would repeat itself

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01/03/2021 24:55

LOS ANGELES, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Prince Harry, who shocked
Britain last year when he and his wife Meghan stepped back from
royal duties, told U.S. interviewer Oprah Winfrey that he had
worried about history repeating itself, according to excerpts
released on Sunday.
    The CBS broadcast network  VIACA.O  released two brief clips
from Winfrey's interview of the couple, which is scheduled to
air on March 7. It is the first TV interview the couple,
formally known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have given
since making their homes in California last year.
    "My biggest concern was history repeating itself," Harry
said, apparently referring to his mother Princess Diana, who was
hounded by the British press and died at age 36 in a car crash
in Paris after her divorce from Prince Charles.
    Harry, 36, was seated next to Meghan, 39, and holding her
hand. The couple announced this month that they are expecting
their second child.
    "I'm just really relieved and happy to be sitting her
talking to you with my wife by my side," Harry said. "Because I
can't imagine what it must have been like for her (Diana), going
through this process by herself all those years ago.
    "It's been unbelievably tough for the two of us, but at
least we had each other," Harry added.
    In the clips, Winfrey said that no subject was off limits
and at one point tells the couple "you have said some pretty
shocking things here," including that their situation had been
"almost unsurvivable."
    Before they moved to California, the couple had complained
about the British tabloids' treatment of Meghan, whose father is
white and mother is African-American, some of which they said
amounted to bullying or racism.
    Earlier this month, Buckingham Palace announced that the
couple would not be returning to their lives as working members
of the royal family.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N2KS2LY

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