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-Alright.
-Good morning Sir.
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Your Royal Highness
and Meghan Markle,
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congratulations to you both.
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Thank you.
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Can we start with the proposal
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and the actual moment of your engagement.
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When did it happen? How did it happen?
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-It happened a few weeks ago.
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Um, earlier this month.
Here at our cottage.
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In your engagement interview, er--
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Orchestrated reality show, yep.
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It was, you know, rehearsed.
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So we did the thing out with
the Press, then we went right inside,
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took the coat off,
sat down and did the interview.
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So it's all in that same moment.
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Well hearts are
broken worldwide this morning
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certainly because he's probably the most
popular member of the Royal Family…
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The official news
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Prince Harry
and Meghan Markle are in an engagement…
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Buckingham Palace proudly announces
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the engagement
of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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-God save the queen.
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What like prepping you
that they're gonna ask this, this, this?
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Or how does that work?
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Yeah. But also, "There'll ask to see
the ring, so show the ring."
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So the main stone itself,
I sourced from Botswana.
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And the little diamonds on the side
are from my mother's jewelry collection
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to make sure she's with us
on this crazy journey together.
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What do you think
your mother would have thought of Meghan
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or said about Meghan?
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At least they'd be thick
as thieves.
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Without question,
I think she would be over the moon.
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Jumping up and down and so excited for me.
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And as I said, would have probably been
best friends, best friends with Meghan.
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-I know… I'm sure she's, er--
-She's with us.
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I'm sure she's with us,
jumping up and down somewhere else.
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I think this is the happy ending
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that people have wished for,
for Prince Harry.
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They were thrilled.
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Absolutely thrilled.
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Absolutely thrilled,
it's such exciting news.
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His family has been so welcoming.
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-Katherine's been absolutely amazing.
-She's been wonderful.
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Amazing, as has William, as well.
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Have you met each other's families?
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My mom, we've been spending a lot
of time with. It was so much fun.
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He's talked to my dad, few times.
Hasn't been able to meet him just yet.
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Not just a mention of an American bride
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but also with a mixed race background.
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-First, of mixed race
-Many things about her,
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-make her relevant to this generation…
-So much scrutiny…
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Do you have that sense
that the combination of the two of you,
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your different backgrounds,
that you'll represent something new
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for the Royal Family?
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Em, you know, we're a fantastic team,
we know we are. And
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we hope to, over time,
try and have as much impact
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for other things
that we care about as much as possible.
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I am very excited about that, yeah.
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But yes. We weren't,
so my point is, we weren't allowed to tell
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our story because they didn't want.
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We are not allowed to tell our story.
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That's true.
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That's the consistency.
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That is consistent. Yeah.
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Until now.
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I guess that's why we're here.
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Yeah.
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-Meghan!
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Who dreamed that Britain
would have a Black princess?
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Who could have conceived that?
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It was a conclusion
to a history that was so improbable
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as to be astonishing.
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It is hard to believe the role
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that Britain played in modern history.
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This little island off the coast of Europe
was at the center of the biggest empire
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that the world has ever seen.
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But the question we have to ask is,
"Who's paid the cost in all of this?"
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It's often said
that Britain had a deep south
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that was just as brutal,
that actually enslaved more Africans
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than the United states of America did.
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But that deep south was the Caribbean.
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It was overseas. It was far away.
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It was out of sight and out of minds.
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Jamaica becomes
this incredibly profitable center
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of British slavery.
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And then of course,
there's the settlements in North America.
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Tobacco in Virginia
and Maryland, rice from the south.
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Slavery is fueling
this early British empire.
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The first ever commercial
Slave Voyage conducted by Britain,
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was personally financed
by Queen Elizabeth I.
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And it continued
to be financed by kings and queens,
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while up until its abolition.
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When I was at school, the only aspect
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of the whole story of British slavery
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that I was ever told,
was the abolition of slavery.
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In 1807, Britain abolished its slave trade
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and in the 1830s
Britain abolished its slave empire.
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But even when we tell
that very selective slice of the history,
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we miss out a critical aspect.
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Slavery wasn't just abolished,
the slave owners were compensated.
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They were compensated enormously.
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Twenty million pounds
for their human property.
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It's just another way
in which our memory of British slavery
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has been airbrushed
out of Britain's story.
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Growing up in the UK,
I was completely oblivious
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to that history and that legacy.
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And when I look back
on it, I think a lot of the focus
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was put on celebrating our colonial power
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and just how important
Britain used to be globally.
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I think one
of the oddest things is,
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it was only on the very last decades
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that imperial epoch,
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that Black and Brown people came
to live in Britain in large numbers.
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In the mid-twentieth century,
Britain went to the Caribbean Islands
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recruiting people to drive buses,
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become nurses in the newly
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created National Health Service,
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teachers in newly expanded schools.
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And these were,
on the whole, low-paid jobs.
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And this city, London, began
to look for the only time in its history,
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like it actually was
the center of an empire
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that was mainly
made up of non-White people.
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I think what's happened
over the past 50, 60 years,
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is that there is a call
to re-imagine the Commonwealth,
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to re-imagine Britain.
To re-imagine its institutions.
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And so the moment when
I thought, "Well, this is significant."
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was when they got engaged.
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Could this really be
a moment in which, in essence,
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the Royal family
caught up with the rest of Britain?
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Nottingham, this morning,
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center of attention
on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The crowds waiting to take their place
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in the fairy-tale of the soldier
Prince and the Hollywood actress.
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Harry's brought his bird
to town so I brought mine.
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And why are you here?
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Um, just to see Meghan.
That's it.
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This is the moment which
will be played around the world.
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The first Royal test for Meghan Markle.
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I never saw pictures
or videos of a walkabout.
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Like, what's a walkabout?
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I could talk her
through as much as I knew
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from my own experience of what I'd seen.
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The piece I really didn't
know about was the style, right,
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and what a woman needed to,
how they needed to dress and all that.
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No, you'd be there with the scissors like,
"Guys, be ready. We have five minutes."
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Okay. And I was like,
"Should I wear these earrings?
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Are these a British designer?
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I just ordered these online. Is this good?
Wait, my tag's on. Cut the tag."
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And then the zip breaks, I'm just like…
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And he's like, "Okay babes,
safety pin. Just safety pin it."
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Well, the whole thing was just ridiculous.
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"Ready?" "Yeah." "Okay."
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We just sort of went with it.
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Just days
since we found out they were engaged,
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
were on their first ever Royal Walkabout.
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As an actress,
Meghan Markle is used to
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the red carpet and all these crowds.
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This however is something else.
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-Hey, Meghan.
-Oh, thank you.
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They looked perfect.
And she was dressed just on point. Yeah.
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-She looked amazing.
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Meghan.
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She was delightful. She was lovely.
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Meghan, we love you! Ooh!
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Meghan!
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Everybody was just
so excited and pleased and happy.
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And I think people looked at it and went,
"Wow, what a breath of fresh air."
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Good addition
to the Royal family.
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Definitely.
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-An American.
-The mixed kids.
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Yeah, mixed kids in the Royal Family now.
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What a day for Meghan Markle.
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There was no doubt
who sparkled the most today.
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I thought to myself,
like, "What a dream."
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I found a woman
that not necessarily finds this easy
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but is able to do it
and make it look easy.
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H, can you DJ?
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Mm.
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-Elton.
-An Elton? I'll take it.
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I mean,
Archie loves Bennie and The Jets.
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It is his favorite song.
And to watch a two-year-old go "Bennie.
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-Bennie."
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Daniel was
with me on our wedding.
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We've been together
for the progression so much.
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-How long has it been now?
-Ten, I think.
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-Almost ten years? Over ten years?
-Easy.
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Oh my goodness.
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-It's so crazy!
-I know.
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Nothing has changed,
except for everything.
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Um, so maybe
after this we can do a little bit of prep.
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Just go through some of
the journalists that post these accounts.
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Mostly royal experts?
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Is this one mine?
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-I don't understand what that.
-Yes.
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Someone can
just call themselves a royal expert?
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That's a question for my husband.
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People can
just call themselves royal experts?
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-Well no, it's the same as…
-It should mean something.
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It's the same as Royal Correspondent.
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Royal Correspondent is a title,
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I suppose, that is given
to a selected group of journalists,
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so that those newspapers
can use them and their stories
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with Royal Correspondent as credible fact.
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Just so that whatever the papers
print can come with extra credibility.
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I mean, anyone can be a royal expert.
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The whole point of it is to try
and lend legitimacy to media articles,
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and they get paid for it.
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And that press pack of
royal correspondents is essentially just,
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an extended PR arm of the Royal Family.
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So there's been an agreement
that's been there for over 30 years.
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The tabloids in the UK
have a very special relationship
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with the Royal Family.
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There's a sort of unwritten contract
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between the Institution and the Press.
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The way it's presented
in the media is, the taxpayer in the UK
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pays for the Royal Family.
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And in return for those payments…
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Can we just see the ring?
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…there's an expectation
that the Royal Family
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would be available to the media.
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And this is a sense of, we pay, you pose.
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And they feel
that they have a duty to their readers
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to bring private aspects of their lives
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to light.
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Not all of it always directly
related to the facts on the ground.
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If you're part of the royal rota,
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you have priority
over the story, over everybody else.
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The royal rota is a system
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by which certain media are allocated slots
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to cover the members of the family.
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And however aggressive their
previous coverage might have been,
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they still get the right
to be on the rota.
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Like so, all royal news goes through
the filter of all the newspapers
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within the royal rota of which, apart
from the Telegraph, happen to be tabloids.
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It all comes out to control us. Like,
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this family is ours to exploit.
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That trauma is our story
and our narrative to control.
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Cameras poking at you from every quarter,
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recording every twitch.
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If you don't try to work out in your own
mind some kind of method for existing
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and surviving this kind of thing,
you would go mad I think.
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Harry and William
are the first generation
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that I've seen
grow up under that contract.
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And I wish there was
more introspection about the idea
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that you could be born into a contractual
relationship with the British media.
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Rota!
A couple of steps back, please.
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Sorry, keep moving.
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I remember doing an event
with both the Duke and Duchess.
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And one of the photographers,
almost in jest, said to me,
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"Oh, can't you get him to do something
more. He doesn't perform for us anymore."
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So I went to Harry and Meghan
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and I actually,
regret it wholeheartedly now,
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I said to them, "Sometimes,
we just gotta play the game."
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And that ultimately,
that game is the invisible contract.
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Harry, Meghan and the rest of
the family had an obligation to perform.
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And if they didn't,
you would fall out of favor,
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and then any opportunity would be used
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to write negative
or highlight negative would be taken.
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Imagine all of these people
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that have published
horrible things about you,
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published horrible things
about your family,
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have published
horrible things about your mother,
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you've got to perform for them.
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It's a real cutthroat business.
And with Meghan…
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There was no limit.
It was fair game on everyone.
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You know, we knew that they would
contact people that Meg was close to.
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I didn't know the lengths
that they would go.
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There were journalists outside
of my apartment building
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There were people trailing us in London.
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It was intense.
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The Press was ruthless.
They would go to my parents' home.
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I remember a friend
forwarded me this article where my mom
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was quoted.
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It was like, "Oh, Meghan's
obsessed with Princess Diana."
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Just things that
never happened and weren't true at all.
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I felt unsafe a lot.
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I can't just go walk with dogs.
I can't just go to work.
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You know, there was always
someone there waiting for me,
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following me to work.
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I was being stalked by the paparazzi.
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Once, I pulled over.
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And so he pulled up next to me and said,
"You know,
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I just was trying to get a story.
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You know you could get
a lot of money for this."
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And I just looked at him and said,
"This is my child. Like…
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I've nothing to say."
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The UK media, I truly believe,
wanted my mom's side of my family
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to be the ones that
all this drama could be stirred up with.
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And suddenly, you just had my mom
who's classy and quiet in there,
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and you had the other side
of my family that is just…
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acting differently.
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My half-sister who I haven't seen for over
a decade, and that was only for a day,
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suddenly, it felt like she was everywhere.
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I don't know your middle name.
I don't know your birthday.
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You're telling these people you raised me,
and you call me Princess Pushy?
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Tom's kids were
a good 17 years older than her.
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And Meg and I left when she was two.
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I don't remember
seeing her when I was a kid
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at my dad's house, if and when
they would come around.
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And then the last time that I saw her,
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that I remember,
is when I was in my early twenties.
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I hadn't had a fallout with her. We didn't
have a closeness to be able to have that.
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And I wanted a sister.
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My name's Ashleigh Hale.
I'm an immigration attorney.
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And I am Meg's niece.
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How are you and Meg related?
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So Meg is my aunt
on the maternal side of my family.
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So she is
my biological mother's half-sister.
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My biological mother's Samantha Markle.
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And it was agreed by everyone,
by myself and my brother
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to be raised by our grandparents.
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So they got custody of us
when I was probably around two years old
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And ultimately, um, they did adopt us.
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So I was raised
by my paternal grandparents.
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You know, for me, they were my parents.
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My biological mother, I've not
seen her since I was six years old.
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And then later in life, around 2007,
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we reconnected.
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I just remember my dad saying to me,
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"Samantha found her daughter."
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And I was like, "Oh! If you have
her email address, I want to email her."
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It started out with these long emails
back and forth to each other.
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And then texts and calls.
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After a while, I think we were talking,
on some level, several days a week.
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And we just hit it off.
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And then she and I just started,
like… I was on Suits at the time.
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So I said, "Let's go on vacation."
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She took me to New Orleans.
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We walked around.
We listened to some good live music.
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Ate way too much food.
Had way too many drinks.
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It was just the two of us,
which I think was really special.
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I think she takes on
a lot of roles for me.
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There's a sister element,
there's something maternal.
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She's a best friend.
She's kind of all the things…
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I think we both craved the same thing.
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I wanted a sister,
and she was like a little sister.
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Ashleigh was put through quite a bit
by the media, just by association.
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And I didn't want…
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I didn't want her life
to be plagued with all that drama.
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After the news first broke,
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Samantha pretty quickly
began expressing a lot of angry words
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about Meg towards me.
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What was communicated to me
was maybe some resentment.
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And it felt like no matter what I said,
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you know, her perspective didn't change
and seemed to get angrier and bigger.
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And we stopped talking.
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You know, some people
you just can't reason with.
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It's your future
wife's first Christmas with the in-laws.
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All of us have to explain
certain things about our family
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to the person we're marrying.
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Where there family traditions
you had to explain to her?
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Oh, plenty. I think we've got one
of the biggest families I know of.
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And every family is complex as well so,
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she's done an absolutely amazing job.
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She's getting in there
and, you know, it's…
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it's the family that
I suppose she never had.
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I remember so vividly
the first Christmas at Sandringham.
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Calling my mom, and she's like,
"How's it going?"
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And I said, "Oh my gosh, it's amazing."
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It's just like a big family
like I always wanted.
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And there was just
this constant movement and energy and fun.
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At dinner,
I was sat next to H's grandfather.
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And I just thought it was so wonderful.
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And I was like,
"Oh, we chatted and it was so great."
365
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And I talked about this,
and talked about this.
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He was like, "You had his bad ear. He
couldn't hear anything you were saying."
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I was like,
"Oh. Well, I thought it went really well."
368
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Tonight, there is a new royal scandal.
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The wife of one of the queen's cousin,
Princess Michael of Kent,
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wore what's called a blackamoor brooch
to the Queen's annual Christmas Lunch.
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The jewelry is widely viewed as racist.
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And the decision to wear it
quickly drew criticism on social media.
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When I heard
about Meghan at an event where
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a member of her soon-to-be family
was wearing a blackamoor brooch,
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I wasn't hugely surprised
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because one of
the realities of life in Britain
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is that if you go into a palace,
or a stately home,
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or anywhere that represents tradition,
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you are likely
to be faced with racist imagery.
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There are murals on the wall,
carvings on the ceiling
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that depict enslaved people
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in a way that glorifies
the institution of slavery.
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You could say, "A small thing, a brooch.
She probably didn't mean any harm by it."
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If you magnify that thousands of times,
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"It was just a painting,
it was just a slave,
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it was just a plantation…"
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These are the skeletons in the closet that
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frequently make
an unwelcome appearance in daily life.
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In this family, sometimes
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you know, you're part of the problem
rather than part of the solution.
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And there is
a huge level of unconscious bias.
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The thing with unconscious bias
is it's actually no one's fault.
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But once it's been pointed out
or identified within yourself,
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you then need to make it right.
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It's education. It's awareness.
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And it's a constant work in progress
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for everybody, including me, you know.
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British headline writers
have been salivating today,
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Prince Harry's choice to wear
a Nazi uniform earlier this month
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to a private party has caused outrage.
401
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Many are questioning
the sensitivity of a 20-year old Prince
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who chooses to party in a Nazi uniform.
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It was probably one
of the biggest mistakes in my life.
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00:25:32,405 --> 00:25:34,366
I felt so ashamed afterwards.
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All I wanted to do was make it right.
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We sat down and spoke
to the chief rabbi in London,
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which had a profound impact on me.
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00:25:46,711 --> 00:25:50,006
I went to Berlin
and spoke to a Holocaust survivor.
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I could've ignored it and probably made
the same mistakes over again in my life.
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But I learned from that.
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Harry, he was not too dissimilar
to a lot of boys I went to school with.
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You know, they were
in an echo chamber of absolute privilege
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that afforded them
to live a very particular life.
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And once you step out of that,
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you realize that
there's a much bigger world.
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Everyone, the Duke and Duchess.
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Hi, how are you?
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Okay, thank you.
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00:26:43,977 --> 00:26:45,395
-Hi.
-How're you doing?
420
00:26:45,478 --> 00:26:47,355
-Hi, guys.
-Hello.
421
00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:49,774
How long have you guys
been sitting in here for?
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In silence.
423
00:26:51,234 --> 00:26:53,570
Hello, hello.
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Probably having breakfast too.
425
00:26:54,779 --> 00:26:55,613
Yeah.
426
00:26:55,697 --> 00:26:57,907
Hi every body. How are you doing?
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I'm never gonna
remember these names so…
428
00:26:59,284 --> 00:27:01,036
-Look, we don't know each other.
429
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,079
It is just like speech.
430
00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:04,873
It's so weird.
431
00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:07,250
Watching my husband over there,
432
00:27:07,334 --> 00:27:09,753
you could see how much joy
it brings him to be back on a base.
433
00:27:09,836 --> 00:27:12,756
So he immediately
goes back to military banter.
434
00:27:13,340 --> 00:27:17,344
Everybody, it's amazing how long you all
stay on. The pension's 20 years, right?
435
00:27:17,427 --> 00:27:18,636
Once you get to a certain point,
436
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,263
it's like the point of no return.
437
00:27:20,347 --> 00:27:23,058
You're like, "Oh, 12 years-ish?
Well, may as well stay now."
438
00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:24,976
Well, I signed up with the three.
439
00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:29,522
And then they kept dangling the carrot
of different options in front of me.
440
00:27:29,606 --> 00:27:31,983
And I ended up serving ten years.
441
00:27:35,362 --> 00:27:37,197
My ten years in the army,
442
00:27:38,114 --> 00:27:43,078
it gave me a lived experience that other
members of my family wouldn't have had.
443
00:27:47,999 --> 00:27:52,295
Two tours in Afghanistan, flying
apache helicopters on a military base
444
00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:54,714
means that you grow up pretty fast.
445
00:27:56,508 --> 00:27:58,134
Jeez, I went to war twice.
446
00:28:04,140 --> 00:28:05,683
The people that I met
447
00:28:06,643 --> 00:28:08,686
and the lifelong friends made,
448
00:28:10,188 --> 00:28:11,731
that was my second family.
449
00:28:12,649 --> 00:28:18,238
Because that… for that point.
Yeah, there's still scars left open from
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from my mum's awesomeness…
to put it mildly.
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00:28:22,242 --> 00:28:25,203
Hopefully, she'll be proud.
William sent me a letter
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saying how proud he reckons she'll be.
453
00:28:28,706 --> 00:28:31,751
You know, it's one thing that I don't
necessarily think about the whole time
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because I've got the guys to worry about.
455
00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:41,219
We've been married ten years and done
five moves since we've been married so…
456
00:28:41,302 --> 00:28:44,305
Three kids in ten years,
and five moves.
457
00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:47,642
-Yeah, so we've been busy.
458
00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:49,853
-Well, not that way.
459
00:28:49,936 --> 00:28:53,314
Well, in every way.
That's good, that's cool. That's fine.
460
00:28:55,191 --> 00:28:59,112
Working and living with normal people…
461
00:28:59,195 --> 00:29:01,906
and I fully appreciate
that my life is not normal…
462
00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:05,034
Has… certainly has
an effect on you, right?
463
00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:09,581
The bubble within the bubble
that I was brought up in got burst.
464
00:29:12,208 --> 00:29:15,628
Ultimately, I'm so grateful for it.
465
00:29:17,172 --> 00:29:20,133
And that was all before I met Meghan.
466
00:29:22,385 --> 00:29:26,514
What I'd like to say is, depression
is a family secret that we all share.
467
00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:29,851
And sharing our story
allows others to tell theirs in return,
468
00:29:29,934 --> 00:29:32,562
so on behalf of the Bulldogs,
469
00:29:32,645 --> 00:29:35,607
and ur, those
that help generate the airplanes
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00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:38,234
that deliver hope to others,
I wanna give this to you.
471
00:29:39,486 --> 00:29:41,613
-Thank you very much.
-I appreciate that.
472
00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:47,911
So this coin comes
from the 108 maintenance squadron.
473
00:29:47,994 --> 00:29:50,079
I'm the commander, that
squadron's first female commander.
474
00:29:50,163 --> 00:29:51,414
-Breaking barriers--
-They'll know.
475
00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:55,293
But, uh, it means a lot to me
to be able to give this to you
476
00:29:55,376 --> 00:29:57,754
because of all the barriers
that you've broken for the world.
477
00:29:57,837 --> 00:29:59,756
-And that's very special.
-Thank you.
478
00:29:59,839 --> 00:30:02,801
Sir, no offense, but this is her…
479
00:30:02,884 --> 00:30:05,887
-If anyone that starts with that…
480
00:30:07,347 --> 00:30:11,476
Our life was, "Okay,
we're gonna do this job together," and…
481
00:30:12,727 --> 00:30:15,730
that felt great cause I'd been doing
that on my own for so long.
482
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:19,234
I also think, what she was
already doing, what I was already doing,
483
00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:24,489
that sort of came together
in this beautiful matrimony.
484
00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:42,882
Welcome to
the very first Royal Foundation forum.
485
00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:45,385
Now, the principle of working together
486
00:30:45,468 --> 00:30:48,596
is in the foundation's DNA.
This is the only charity--
487
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,684
The Royal Foundation was
the charity that was originally set up
488
00:30:52,767 --> 00:30:58,523
for William and Harry
to launch their charitable endeavors.
489
00:31:00,024 --> 00:31:02,235
Their Royal Foundation is a team effort,
490
00:31:02,318 --> 00:31:04,612
but we also seem to get an insight
491
00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:07,782
into how Meghan
may want to do things her own way.
492
00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:09,784
Most attention was
on Meghan Markle and
493
00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:11,661
what sort of issues she will take on.
494
00:31:11,744 --> 00:31:15,957
Meghan, it's well known, you've championed
the empowerment of women and young girls,
495
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,792
and promoting their self-worth.
496
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:21,880
How do you hope to continue
that work with the Royal Foundation?
497
00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:25,884
Um, women don't need to find a voice.
They have a voice.
498
00:31:25,967 --> 00:31:27,760
They need to feel empowered to use it.
499
00:31:27,844 --> 00:31:29,929
And people need
to be encouraged to listen.
500
00:31:30,013 --> 00:31:32,432
And I think right now,
in the climate that we're seeing,
501
00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:35,768
with so many campaigns, I mean MeToo…
502
00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:40,106
there is no better time than
to really continue to shine a light on
503
00:31:40,189 --> 00:31:43,985
women feeling empowered
and people really helping to support them.
504
00:31:44,068 --> 00:31:46,654
This is the first time
that we've heard anyone
505
00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:51,117
associated with the Royal Family
talking about those campaigns.
506
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,162
Kate, for example,
didn't wear black to the BAFTAs.
507
00:31:54,245 --> 00:31:57,457
And Camilla, who also
supports women's organizations
508
00:31:57,540 --> 00:32:01,586
hasn't mentioned MeToo or or TimesUp.
The Kensington Palace stressed…
509
00:32:01,669 --> 00:32:05,423
It's important
to remember the Royal Family in the UK
510
00:32:05,506 --> 00:32:08,217
and the causes that they champion
511
00:32:08,301 --> 00:32:11,679
are deliberately non-controversial.
512
00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:14,515
Meghan was more of an activist.
513
00:32:14,599 --> 00:32:16,517
I didn't know that that…
514
00:32:17,727 --> 00:32:19,938
would be taboo to talk about.
515
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:21,856
To me, it was just topical.
516
00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:25,944
All the work you do together is great
but working together as family,
517
00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:27,904
do you ever have
disagreements about things?
518
00:32:29,405 --> 00:32:30,406
Oh yes.
519
00:32:32,617 --> 00:32:33,660
Healthy disagreements.
520
00:32:33,743 --> 00:32:36,663
Okay, the last thing
you disagreed on, how did you resolve it?
521
00:32:37,622 --> 00:32:40,500
Uh, I can't remember…
They come so thick and fast!
522
00:32:42,168 --> 00:32:43,628
-But is it resolved? We don't know.
-We don't know.
523
00:32:43,711 --> 00:32:44,629
Oh, you don't know?
524
00:32:44,712 --> 00:32:46,923
Well, you're putting on
a great show if it's not.
525
00:32:47,590 --> 00:32:51,010
The younger Royals held
first event as a foursome this morning.
526
00:32:51,594 --> 00:32:54,597
We were looking at the future
of the British monarchy.
527
00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:56,849
This is the woman who's turning
528
00:32:56,933 --> 00:33:00,103
Britain's most traditional
brand on its head.
529
00:33:00,186 --> 00:33:03,481
Meghan Markle isn't British,
she's been married before,
530
00:33:03,564 --> 00:33:07,276
she's mixed-race,
and she doesn't shy away from politics.
531
00:33:07,944 --> 00:33:10,989
That will have to stop now,
of course, in public at least.
532
00:33:12,532 --> 00:33:14,117
Joining this family,
533
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,621
I knew that there was a protocol
for how things were done.
534
00:33:18,705 --> 00:33:22,125
And, do you remember that old movie,
Princess Diaries with Anne Hathaway?
535
00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:24,210
-Me?
536
00:33:24,293 --> 00:33:28,297
A… a princess? Shut up!
537
00:33:28,381 --> 00:33:33,261
I can teach you to walk, talk, sit,
stand, eat, dress like a princess.
538
00:33:33,344 --> 00:33:36,097
There's no class
and some person who goes, "Sit like this.
539
00:33:36,180 --> 00:33:39,100
Cross your legs like this.
Use this fork. Don't do this.
540
00:33:39,183 --> 00:33:42,395
Curtsy then. Wear this kind of hat."
541
00:33:42,478 --> 00:33:43,563
-It doesn't happen.
542
00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:46,691
Some people
on Twitter are suggesting it looked a bit
543
00:33:46,774 --> 00:33:48,693
like the Happy Poo emoji.
544
00:33:54,741 --> 00:33:56,409
So I needed to learn a lot.
545
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,911
Including the National Anthem.
546
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:01,080
How did you learn it?
547
00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:03,332
Oh, I Googled it.
548
00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:11,090
Well, girls, your last day
at the Zermat school for young ladies.
549
00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:14,010
Your final and most important lesson.
550
00:34:14,093 --> 00:34:18,014
[Meghan I Googled it, and I'd sit
there and I'd practice and I'd practice.
551
00:34:18,097 --> 00:34:20,391
She broke Royal protocol by the…
552
00:34:20,475 --> 00:34:22,852
…she and Harry are not yet married.
553
00:34:22,935 --> 00:34:27,982
And then on top of that,
with the press lots of invented protocols.
554
00:34:29,692 --> 00:34:31,694
There was baptism by fire.
555
00:34:33,154 --> 00:34:35,323
Meghan! We love you, Meghan!
556
00:34:35,406 --> 00:34:36,908
Give us a wave!
557
00:34:39,368 --> 00:34:41,037
Meghan!
558
00:34:42,538 --> 00:34:45,291
I have to ask, did anyone
have to teach you how to do the wave?
559
00:34:45,374 --> 00:34:48,711
That's not a thing. You just sort of watch
and go, "Okay, I guess that's what…"
560
00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:52,381
I don't know. I guess you don't wanna wave
561
00:34:52,465 --> 00:34:55,343
like an American. Like, "Hey!"
562
00:34:55,426 --> 00:34:56,886
Everything is just…
563
00:34:59,347 --> 00:35:00,515
…smaller.
564
00:35:09,023 --> 00:35:11,400
-Hello?
-Hello?
565
00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:13,152
-Hi!
-Hi, how are you?
566
00:35:13,236 --> 00:35:14,070
Come on in.
567
00:35:14,153 --> 00:35:16,114
-Should we take our shoes off?
-Ah, yeah. I think it's fine.
568
00:35:16,197 --> 00:35:18,199
It's fine. How are you?
569
00:35:18,282 --> 00:35:19,909
-I'm good. And you?
-Oh my gosh. Look at this.
570
00:35:19,992 --> 00:35:22,286
You too. Come in.
571
00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:30,628
Wow. Look at this piece.
572
00:35:30,711 --> 00:35:32,672
I mean, we really went
from dress to dress.
573
00:35:32,755 --> 00:35:34,215
-Yes? Okay.
-We go dress to dress.
574
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:41,514
Does it feel tight?
575
00:35:41,597 --> 00:35:43,224
No. Not at all. It feels great.
576
00:35:45,601 --> 00:35:47,228
I step into this?
577
00:35:49,564 --> 00:35:50,648
Have you ever had four people
helping you into a dress?
578
00:35:50,731 --> 00:35:52,066
No! Never!
579
00:35:55,194 --> 00:35:56,362
The safety pins.
580
00:35:56,445 --> 00:35:58,156
Please tell me you're getting that.
581
00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:01,742
There are now three people
under your dress.
582
00:36:04,787 --> 00:36:06,497
-Do you have enough light?
583
00:36:08,124 --> 00:36:10,459
-You're offering me a flashlight?
-This is called a rhetorical question.
584
00:36:12,128 --> 00:36:13,212
Good?
585
00:36:13,296 --> 00:36:15,214
The color is amazing.
586
00:36:17,341 --> 00:36:20,386
Most of the time
that I was in the UK,
587
00:36:20,469 --> 00:36:22,513
I rarely wore color.
588
00:36:26,225 --> 00:36:29,896
There was thought in that.
To my understanding,
589
00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:32,899
you can't ever wear
the same color as Her Majesty,
590
00:36:32,982 --> 00:36:34,317
if there's a group event.
591
00:36:34,901 --> 00:36:36,736
But then you also should never
be wearing the same color
592
00:36:36,819 --> 00:36:39,822
as one of the other
more senior members of the family.
593
00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:44,702
So I was like, "Well, what's a color
that they'll probably never wear?"
594
00:36:45,494 --> 00:36:48,873
Camel? Beige? White?
595
00:36:48,956 --> 00:36:53,044
So I wore a lot of muted tones,
but it also was so I could just blend in.
596
00:36:55,004 --> 00:36:57,632
Like, I'm not trying to stand out here.
597
00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:03,971
So there's no version
of me joining this family
598
00:37:05,097 --> 00:37:08,184
and trying to not do
everything I could to fit in.
599
00:37:09,143 --> 00:37:11,103
I don't want to embarrass the family.
600
00:37:15,858 --> 00:37:17,860
Some of
the bride's family don't know yet
601
00:37:17,944 --> 00:37:20,238
if they'll be invited to Windsor Castle,
602
00:37:20,321 --> 00:37:23,699
including Meghan's half-sister,
Samantha Markle,
603
00:37:23,783 --> 00:37:27,411
who's made plenty of her own headlines
in the leadup to the Royal Wedding.
604
00:37:27,495 --> 00:37:31,040
Her half-sister is
also writing a tell-all disparaging book.
605
00:37:31,123 --> 00:37:33,251
Kensington Palace is not commenting.
606
00:37:33,334 --> 00:37:35,962
But you guys, to be a fly
on the wall when he gets to meet
607
00:37:36,045 --> 00:37:37,380
Harry and the Royal Family
for the first time.
608
00:37:37,463 --> 00:37:41,259
We were playing whack-a-mole everyday.
609
00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:43,344
It was like,
"Wait, another one popped up. Wait, stop.
610
00:37:43,427 --> 00:37:45,638
Another story popped." Constant.
611
00:37:45,721 --> 00:37:49,642
They were going through
the woodwork and pulling out people
612
00:37:49,725 --> 00:37:53,604
to create and plant the most
salacious stories that they could.
613
00:37:56,941 --> 00:37:59,026
And then it started to get scary.
614
00:37:59,735 --> 00:38:02,071
Police say a white powder letter
615
00:38:02,154 --> 00:38:03,698
was sent
to soon-to-be-Royal, Meghan Markle…
616
00:38:03,781 --> 00:38:07,243
…package was since learnt to be
some kind of white substance…
617
00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:11,080
…Markle has been subjected to a wave
of abuse and of harassment…
618
00:38:11,163 --> 00:38:12,248
in National newspapers and…
619
00:38:12,331 --> 00:38:14,709
This was on the heels
of those terrorist attacks, right?
620
00:38:14,792 --> 00:38:16,085
So there was so much
concern about the wedding.
621
00:38:17,503 --> 00:38:21,173
And it was just so scary and they
were talking about getting snipers and…
622
00:38:21,257 --> 00:38:22,300
It was a public event, right?
623
00:38:25,928 --> 00:38:27,847
Behind the scenes of all that…
624
00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:32,393
I was just turtling.
625
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:41,777
Communication with
Meg became… less and less frequent.
626
00:38:42,903 --> 00:38:45,990
My impression was that her relationships
627
00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:50,578
were being managed on some level.
628
00:38:54,040 --> 00:39:00,087
For every duke and duchess,
there is also a communication team.
629
00:39:00,171 --> 00:39:04,258
Comms for the Royal Family
is very similar to a press office,
630
00:39:04,342 --> 00:39:08,804
Press spokesperson for politicians
and businesses, celebrities.
631
00:39:09,805 --> 00:39:12,767
There is a Communications
team at Buckingham Palace,
632
00:39:12,850 --> 00:39:15,686
at Clarence House, at Kensington Palace,
633
00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:21,150
all of whom had a primary duty
to their own principals.
634
00:39:22,151 --> 00:39:26,364
These communications teams
allow the Family
635
00:39:26,447 --> 00:39:30,868
to be one step removed
from dealing with the media.
636
00:39:30,951 --> 00:39:36,415
Overall, there is an aspiration
for a controlled narrative.
637
00:39:37,416 --> 00:39:41,295
Our comms team at that time
was joined with my brother's office.
638
00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:45,299
So in total, there was only
one person really dedicated to us.
639
00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:46,967
So it really was a huge undertaking.
640
00:39:51,097 --> 00:39:52,807
I don't think anyone understands
641
00:39:52,890 --> 00:39:57,353
what that very small
comms team was dealing with.
642
00:39:57,436 --> 00:40:02,066
They just couldn't wrap their heads
around it. And I have compassion for it.
643
00:40:02,149 --> 00:40:07,113
How do we explain that this
half-sister isn't invited to the wedding,
644
00:40:07,196 --> 00:40:10,116
but that the half-sister's daughter is?
645
00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:13,786
And so with Ashleigh,
646
00:40:13,869 --> 00:40:17,623
the guidance at the time
was to not have her come to our wedding.
647
00:40:19,458 --> 00:40:23,879
I was in the car with H. I had her
on speaker phone and we talked her through
648
00:40:23,963 --> 00:40:27,716
what guidance we were being given
and why this assessment was made and…
649
00:40:31,846 --> 00:40:33,264
And that's painful.
650
00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:39,854
I think I said I was hurt
on some level but I…
651
00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:44,066
understood where it was coming from.
652
00:40:47,486 --> 00:40:52,616
To know that it was
because of my biological mother that
653
00:40:53,409 --> 00:40:57,746
this relationship
that's so important to me
654
00:40:57,830 --> 00:40:59,790
was impacted in that way…
655
00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:08,382
To feel like because of her,
it was taken away…
656
00:41:10,050 --> 00:41:11,343
it's been hard.
657
00:41:19,685 --> 00:41:22,771
Across the pond tonight,
a save-the-date notice of sorts,
658
00:41:22,855 --> 00:41:24,899
as the Palace has released new details…
659
00:41:24,982 --> 00:41:26,734
In the run up to the wedding…
660
00:41:28,152 --> 00:41:31,697
the sense of excitement
for the country was incredible.
661
00:41:32,573 --> 00:41:35,743
It's wonderful.
She's different, she's the 21st century.
662
00:41:35,826 --> 00:41:36,994
That's what we need now.
663
00:41:37,077 --> 00:41:38,996
Yeah man,
it's just a good, happy feeling.
664
00:41:39,079 --> 00:41:40,789
You gotta like a good old wedding.
665
00:41:40,873 --> 00:41:43,709
First and foremost, I was pretty surprised
Harry could actually bag a girl like that.
666
00:41:45,544 --> 00:41:48,923
They were just
so evidently really in love.
667
00:41:49,548 --> 00:41:51,383
And I think it radiated out.
668
00:41:51,467 --> 00:41:52,760
Everyone's happy.
669
00:41:53,427 --> 00:41:55,221
Nice.
670
00:41:55,304 --> 00:41:59,099
I'm looking at it through
the lens of my friend, not a Princess.
671
00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:02,978
They as a couple are so tight.
672
00:42:03,562 --> 00:42:06,941
And rely on each other so much,
and are each other's
673
00:42:07,024 --> 00:42:09,652
best, best friends.
674
00:42:12,363 --> 00:42:15,157
I was just super excited.
675
00:42:20,579 --> 00:42:23,290
This is a big day for Meghan Markle.
676
00:42:23,374 --> 00:42:25,918
Just minutes ago,
the Royal Family arrived.
677
00:42:26,001 --> 00:42:30,756
at Westminster Abbey in central London
for a service marking Commonwealth Day…
678
00:42:30,839 --> 00:42:32,466
The many-colored flags were carried
679
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:36,845
by young nationals of the countries
joining in the celebrations.
680
00:42:36,929 --> 00:42:42,184
It remains a great pleasure and honor
to serve you as Head of the Commonwealth.
681
00:42:42,268 --> 00:42:46,438
Here at Buckingham Palace, in 1949,
682
00:42:46,522 --> 00:42:49,400
my father met the Heads of Government
683
00:42:49,483 --> 00:42:52,945
when they ratified the London Declaration,
684
00:42:53,028 --> 00:42:55,990
which created
the Commonwealth as we know it today.
685
00:42:56,865 --> 00:42:58,534
God save the King.
686
00:43:01,328 --> 00:43:02,955
When you study the transition
687
00:43:03,038 --> 00:43:05,416
from colonialism
to independence in those countries,
688
00:43:05,499 --> 00:43:08,460
you see that Britain
played a very strategic role.
689
00:43:10,546 --> 00:43:14,508
Britain calculated that it needed
to grant these countries independence
690
00:43:14,592 --> 00:43:18,304
in a way that protected
its commercial and capitalist interest.
691
00:43:18,387 --> 00:43:22,808
So it created this privileged club
of formally colonized nations
692
00:43:22,891 --> 00:43:24,268
called the Commonwealth.
693
00:43:24,893 --> 00:43:27,271
Excitement
in Accra, capital of the Gold Coast,
694
00:43:27,354 --> 00:43:28,230
reached its first climax
695
00:43:28,314 --> 00:43:31,609
with the preparations
for welcoming the royal visitor.
696
00:43:31,692 --> 00:43:32,818
The British Monarchy
697
00:43:32,901 --> 00:43:36,196
is different from
the other monarchies in Western Europe
698
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,824
in being an international monarchy,
699
00:43:38,907 --> 00:43:42,953
with the Queen being Head of State to over
a dozen other countries around the world.
700
00:43:43,662 --> 00:43:45,497
On my 21st birthday,
701
00:43:45,581 --> 00:43:50,085
I am 6000 miles
from the country where I was born.
702
00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:53,672
But I am certainly
not 6000 miles from home.
703
00:43:55,049 --> 00:43:59,053
At the center of the argument
for the monarchy in this country,
704
00:43:59,678 --> 00:44:00,804
is the Commonwealth.
705
00:44:01,639 --> 00:44:06,185
The Queen made it her life mission
to fight for this institution.
706
00:44:06,268 --> 00:44:07,353
She's famous for it.
707
00:44:07,436 --> 00:44:11,231
She's deeply respected
for having kept this institution together.
708
00:44:11,899 --> 00:44:15,861
I declare
before you all that my whole life,
709
00:44:15,944 --> 00:44:17,404
whether it be long or short,
710
00:44:18,530 --> 00:44:22,743
shall be devoted to the service
of our great Imperial family,
711
00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:24,453
to which we all belong.
712
00:44:26,246 --> 00:44:29,917
If we all go forward together
with an unwavering faith,
713
00:44:30,793 --> 00:44:34,296
the Commonwealth
will continue to offer stability
714
00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:37,508
and continuity for future generations.
715
00:44:41,595 --> 00:44:43,305
The Commonwealth
is still described as that, you know,
716
00:44:43,389 --> 00:44:45,974
a club of friends who share common values.
717
00:44:46,058 --> 00:44:47,893
I find that language really problematic.
718
00:44:47,976 --> 00:44:51,230
I sometimes call
the Commonwealth "Empire two point zero"
719
00:44:51,313 --> 00:44:53,315
because that is what it is.
720
00:44:53,899 --> 00:44:56,235
Well, it's not changed a thing,
they've just got better PR.
721
00:44:57,152 --> 00:44:59,113
If you look at the Black people
in the Commonwealth,
722
00:44:59,196 --> 00:45:03,283
well their conditions are almost just
as bad as they were 50 or 100 years ago.
723
00:45:04,785 --> 00:45:05,994
And the roots of that poverty
724
00:45:06,078 --> 00:45:09,623
are based on the extraction
of their wealth elsewhere.
725
00:45:09,706 --> 00:45:14,128
Those in Britain who extracted that wealth
continue in inter-generational wealth.
726
00:45:14,211 --> 00:45:17,923
Those from whom it was extracted
continue to be inter-generationally poor.
727
00:45:18,006 --> 00:45:20,426
It's a very clear economic relationship.
728
00:45:22,302 --> 00:45:26,014
And yet, the current narrative
in Britain is that it's old history,
729
00:45:26,098 --> 00:45:27,891
there's no point looking back.
730
00:45:28,767 --> 00:45:34,273
It's incredibly painful for the
very many millions of British people
731
00:45:34,356 --> 00:45:38,402
who have a different memory
of empire in their personal background.
732
00:45:41,655 --> 00:45:43,866
And yet, here was a woman
733
00:45:43,949 --> 00:45:47,453
who just looked like
most of the people in the Commonwealth.
734
00:45:48,495 --> 00:45:51,290
Meghan represented something.
735
00:45:51,373 --> 00:45:52,249
There was a hope,
736
00:45:52,332 --> 00:45:55,502
"Well, maybe this is a way of
having these difficult conversations
737
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:57,754
that had been pushed away so many times.
738
00:46:03,510 --> 00:46:04,845
Prince Harry
and Meghan Markle will attend
739
00:46:04,928 --> 00:46:06,513
a small special memorial later
740
00:46:06,597 --> 00:46:10,309
to mark the 25th anniversary
of the death of Stephen Lawrence.
741
00:46:11,101 --> 00:46:13,395
An 18-year-old boy
has been stabbed to death
742
00:46:13,479 --> 00:46:15,481
as he waited for a bus
with a friend in Southeast London.
743
00:46:15,564 --> 00:46:17,065
Not far away, he and a friend
744
00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:19,067
were approached
by a gang of up to half a dozen…
745
00:46:19,151 --> 00:46:23,822
…stabbed by a group
of white thugs in an unprovoked attack.
746
00:46:23,906 --> 00:46:28,577
This was a story of two tragedies.
747
00:46:28,660 --> 00:46:32,080
The murder of Stephen Lawrence,
and then the inability
748
00:46:32,164 --> 00:46:35,918
of the legal system
and of the police to provide justice.
749
00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:38,086
No one has ever been
convicted over the death of Stephen.
750
00:46:38,170 --> 00:46:40,088
Local feeling about racist attacks
751
00:46:40,172 --> 00:46:42,633
in this area has been
running high for over two years now.
752
00:46:43,258 --> 00:46:46,428
I'm absolutely shocked.
I didn't expect this to happen again.
753
00:46:46,512 --> 00:46:49,181
How much is it?
How much is a Black life worth?
754
00:46:49,848 --> 00:46:52,226
Pandemonium
outside the Stephen Lawrence enquiry
755
00:46:52,309 --> 00:46:53,519
as the five suspects…
756
00:46:53,602 --> 00:46:56,647
Fighting broke out at
the Stephen Lawrence enquiry today
757
00:46:56,730 --> 00:47:00,108
as the five young white men
fought with an angry crowd.
758
00:47:02,319 --> 00:47:06,365
It was such an egregious,
such an appalling, such a disturbing case
759
00:47:06,448 --> 00:47:09,868
-that it became too difficult to ignore.
760
00:47:10,827 --> 00:47:13,705
And it made the complaints,
the observations,
761
00:47:13,789 --> 00:47:16,583
the experiences
of Black people difficult to deny.
762
00:47:19,002 --> 00:47:21,922
Hanging
over this memorial, the terrible fact
763
00:47:22,005 --> 00:47:26,093
that only two of Stephen's killers
have been brought to justice.
764
00:47:28,470 --> 00:47:30,430
I think that
it was really significant
765
00:47:30,514 --> 00:47:32,015
that Meghan and Harry
visited this memorial
766
00:47:32,099 --> 00:47:35,894
because it represented
a direct attempt to speak to the pain
767
00:47:35,978 --> 00:47:38,730
that many people still feel as a result
of the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
768
00:47:38,814 --> 00:47:40,899
A quarter of a century later,
769
00:47:40,983 --> 00:47:43,819
we could only imagine
the man who Stephen would have become.
770
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:48,740
And that was really welcomed
by many Black communities in Britain.
771
00:47:51,785 --> 00:47:54,329
I always perceived Prince Harry as
772
00:47:55,163 --> 00:47:59,209
just another senior royal
who's a little bit racist,
773
00:47:59,293 --> 00:48:01,295
very ignorant…
774
00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:05,757
But I have watched him on this journey
and seen that he has really embraced
775
00:48:05,841 --> 00:48:08,927
the education that is required
for someone like him,
776
00:48:09,845 --> 00:48:12,681
to transform themselves
into an anti-racist.
777
00:48:20,272 --> 00:48:24,776
The excitement here in Windsor…
it's building.
778
00:48:25,944 --> 00:48:27,487
We've reached the final 12 days.
779
00:48:27,571 --> 00:48:29,197
I cannot believe it's this close.
780
00:48:29,281 --> 00:48:31,241
A hundred thousand people will be trying
781
00:48:31,325 --> 00:48:32,868
to squeeze onto
these pavements on Saturday…
782
00:48:32,951 --> 00:48:35,829
She's going to make history
on the 19th of May.
783
00:48:35,912 --> 00:48:37,539
And we're ever so proud of Meghan.
784
00:48:37,623 --> 00:48:38,790
Is it going to be a wild one?
785
00:48:38,874 --> 00:48:40,292
Aw, definitely!
786
00:48:43,045 --> 00:48:47,424
Meghan Markle's route to the
chapel on the morning of 19th May
787
00:48:47,507 --> 00:48:49,635
will start off unconventionally
788
00:48:49,718 --> 00:48:52,346
because it will be her mother
who will be in the car with her
789
00:48:52,429 --> 00:48:56,183
as she drives here
along the long walk up to the castle.
790
00:48:56,266 --> 00:49:00,812
Meghan will meet her father, Thomas Markle
at the West Steps to St. George's Chapel
791
00:49:00,896 --> 00:49:03,315
before he walks her down the aisle.
792
00:49:03,398 --> 00:49:06,193
But when Meghan's father flies in
on the week before the wedding,
793
00:49:06,276 --> 00:49:10,781
he will be meeting his daughter's soon-
to-be husband for the very first time.
794
00:49:12,658 --> 00:49:15,035
There was excitement
leading up to the wedding
795
00:49:15,118 --> 00:49:19,956
but she also had
to contend with everybody else.
796
00:49:30,217 --> 00:49:31,760
It's amazing what people would do
797
00:49:31,843 --> 00:49:33,804
when offered a huge amount of money.
798
00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:40,102
Fifty thousand, a hundred thousand,
to hand over photographs,
799
00:49:40,185 --> 00:49:41,687
to create a story…
800
00:49:44,606 --> 00:49:48,235
And thank God most of them said no.
801
00:49:54,741 --> 00:49:55,951
The week before our wedding,
802
00:49:56,034 --> 00:50:00,539
We got a call
from our joint communications secretary.
803
00:50:00,622 --> 00:50:04,543
He said, "This story is going
to come out tomorrow
804
00:50:04,626 --> 00:50:08,213
saying your father has been staging
pictures and taking money from the press."
805
00:50:08,296 --> 00:50:09,423
And I was like, "What kind of pictures?"
806
00:50:12,843 --> 00:50:15,846
They were
relatively innocuous enough.
807
00:50:15,929 --> 00:50:22,144
You know, there was…
one of him looking at a book
808
00:50:22,769 --> 00:50:24,646
of the UK.
809
00:50:24,730 --> 00:50:27,649
I remember I naively went into the office
810
00:50:27,733 --> 00:50:29,943
and I said, "Isn't that sweet?"
811
00:50:30,026 --> 00:50:33,822
As I genuinely was in this, sort of,
812
00:50:33,905 --> 00:50:37,200
matrimony love-fest bubble.
813
00:50:37,284 --> 00:50:42,748
And a colleague sort of brought me
down to earth fairly quickly
814
00:50:42,831 --> 00:50:45,500
and said, "That's a setup."
815
00:50:48,962 --> 00:50:50,756
That was
the first I was hearing of it.
816
00:50:52,257 --> 00:50:55,343
And I remember Jason said, "You just need
to call him and find out if this is true
817
00:50:55,427 --> 00:50:57,679
or not because
it could be really damaging."
818
00:51:00,682 --> 00:51:02,517
H and I called my dad.
819
00:51:03,810 --> 00:51:07,105
I said, "They're saying you're taking
money from the tabloids to stage photos.
820
00:51:07,189 --> 00:51:08,815
Is this true?" He says, "No."
821
00:51:12,861 --> 00:51:17,240
And on that call, I'd said to him,
"Look. If they can't stop it this story,
822
00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:19,785
then it's going to come out tomorrow
823
00:51:19,868 --> 00:51:23,747
so whey don't we send someone right now
to your house to get you out of there now
824
00:51:23,830 --> 00:51:27,209
because if that's the case, your house'll
be swarmed by media. We'll get you out."
825
00:51:27,292 --> 00:51:31,713
I was like, "We'll just come and get you
a day early and take you out of Mexico."
826
00:51:31,797 --> 00:51:33,882
And he said,
"No. I have things I need to do."
827
00:51:37,093 --> 00:51:39,304
And it felt really cagey.
828
00:51:41,765 --> 00:51:44,100
I was like, "It doesn't make sense."
829
00:51:44,893 --> 00:51:46,228
And when we hung up,
830
00:51:48,271 --> 00:51:50,065
I looked at H.
831
00:51:52,609 --> 00:51:55,153
I was like, "I don't know why
but I don't believe him."
832
00:51:56,863 --> 00:52:00,826
The buzz, this morning,
centers around Meghan Markle's father.
833
00:52:05,121 --> 00:52:08,667
Mr. Markle allegedly
staged photos of himself for paparazzi,
834
00:52:08,750 --> 00:52:12,170
selling them
for a reported 100,000 dollars.
835
00:52:12,254 --> 00:52:16,299
This is tabloid fodder. They're going
crazy with this story this morning.
836
00:52:17,551 --> 00:52:21,513
Everyone was so frantic
with preparing for the wedding itself.
837
00:52:22,222 --> 00:52:25,725
And then all of a sudden,
it just exploded.
838
00:52:26,476 --> 00:52:28,478
I was absolutely stunned
839
00:52:28,562 --> 00:52:33,733
that Tom would become part of this circus.
840
00:52:33,817 --> 00:52:35,735
As the photo scandal swirls around…
841
00:52:35,819 --> 00:52:38,655
I felt sad that
the media would run with this.
842
00:52:38,738 --> 00:52:40,699
Do you have
any reaction to your ex-husband's
843
00:52:40,782 --> 00:52:44,077
apparently staging
photos for the paparazzi?
844
00:52:45,161 --> 00:52:48,039
That he would capitalize…
845
00:52:50,166 --> 00:52:54,296
Certainly as a parent. It's not…
No. That's not what you do.
846
00:52:54,379 --> 00:52:55,881
That's not parenting.
847
00:52:57,966 --> 00:53:00,844
Paps and journalists immediately
were following him all day everyday.
848
00:53:01,428 --> 00:53:04,890
The unraveling happened that week
when he wouldn't pick up my call.
849
00:53:04,973 --> 00:53:07,100
And instead you're talking to TMZ.
850
00:53:08,393 --> 00:53:11,521
We just broke
a big bad story on our website.
851
00:53:11,605 --> 00:53:15,984
Meghan Markle was supposed to be
walked down the aisle by her father.
852
00:53:16,067 --> 00:53:21,156
And we found out from her father,
not only would he not do that,
853
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:24,117
he's not gonna attend the wedding at all.
854
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,203
And I'm finding out
that you're not coming to our wedding…
855
00:53:28,914 --> 00:53:30,540
through a tabloid.
856
00:53:33,418 --> 00:53:36,004
Meghan's father,
73 years old Thomas Markle,
857
00:53:36,087 --> 00:53:37,923
reportedly suffering a heart attack,
858
00:53:38,006 --> 00:53:40,550
after enduring
a scandal these past three days
859
00:53:40,634 --> 00:53:43,595
with staged
paparazzi photos that went viral.
860
00:53:43,678 --> 00:53:46,056
And then suddenly
they were saying he was in the hospital.
861
00:53:47,432 --> 00:53:49,434
I said, "What's going on?
Please just pick up the phone.
862
00:53:49,517 --> 00:53:52,354
Like, We're not mad.
Just please pick up the phone."
863
00:53:56,858 --> 00:54:00,570
He told me he had
a heart attack six days ago.
864
00:54:00,654 --> 00:54:03,865
-We need to know what's going on.
-Calling and calling.
865
00:54:03,949 --> 00:54:06,743
This is not him saying,
"I will… I don't wanna be there."
866
00:54:06,826 --> 00:54:08,328
No, I get it. I'm not saying…
867
00:54:08,411 --> 00:54:11,164
The world is watching this drama play out.
868
00:54:11,247 --> 00:54:14,000
For everybody, Thomas Markle
869
00:54:20,215 --> 00:54:22,717
Once it was said in the media,
he just stopped calling
870
00:54:22,801 --> 00:54:25,512
We need to know what's going on.
I don't understand what's going on.
871
00:54:25,595 --> 00:54:28,431
"Are you okay? What hospital are you at?"
872
00:54:29,224 --> 00:54:31,017
We were just trying
to understand what's going on.
873
00:54:31,101 --> 00:54:36,439
How do you not have
your daddy at your wedding?
874
00:54:45,782 --> 00:54:50,745
And then,
someone texted back on his phone.
875
00:54:53,957 --> 00:54:58,044
It was really weird.
You know how people text, right?
876
00:54:58,128 --> 00:55:00,130
Like, you know,
my dad used a lot of emojis
877
00:55:00,213 --> 00:55:03,091
and a lot of like,
ellipses and dot-dot-dot and…
878
00:55:04,467 --> 00:55:08,179
And this was just the opposite.
879
00:55:10,181 --> 00:55:11,766
And it called me Meghan.
880
00:55:14,352 --> 00:55:18,398
I was like, "He's never called me Meghan
in my… any day I've lived on this planet.
881
00:55:18,481 --> 00:55:21,985
Meg. All my friends call me Meg
and my parents call me Meg.
882
00:55:22,068 --> 00:55:23,820
And I was like, "That's not my dad."
883
00:55:28,491 --> 00:55:31,745
So then, we knew that
his phone had been compromised.
884
00:55:38,043 --> 00:55:41,004
And we said, "Pick up the phone.
We need to know it's you."
885
00:55:42,422 --> 00:55:43,339
Never spoke to him.
886
00:55:46,843 --> 00:55:50,305
Of course, it's incredibly sad what
happened. She had a father before this.
887
00:55:50,388 --> 00:55:51,723
And now she doesn't have a father.
888
00:55:52,557 --> 00:55:54,851
And I shouldered that.
889
00:55:54,934 --> 00:55:57,604
Because if Meg wasn't with me,
890
00:55:57,687 --> 00:56:02,233
then her dad would still be her dad.
891
00:56:06,029 --> 00:56:07,489
Okay, great too.
892
00:56:07,572 --> 00:56:09,991
-Hi, Daddy. I got the English award.
-I know.
893
00:56:10,992 --> 00:56:14,746
Okay. Alright. Am I there? I wonder.
894
00:56:14,829 --> 00:56:18,666
Okay. See you later. Bye-bye.
Where's the little button?
895
00:56:20,543 --> 00:56:22,879
Woah.
I gotta zoom back on you.
896
00:56:22,962 --> 00:56:24,631
Gotta push that button in the back.
897
00:56:34,641 --> 00:56:38,103
We're about 24 hours
away from the Royal Wedding and excited…
898
00:56:38,186 --> 00:56:40,313
More than
two billion people worldwide
899
00:56:40,396 --> 00:56:42,690
are expected to watch the wedding on TV.
900
00:56:46,236 --> 00:56:48,279
There is
so much excitement in the air.
901
00:56:48,363 --> 00:56:52,534
In so many ways,
this is a Royal Wedding unlike any other.
902
00:56:53,118 --> 00:56:56,121
The big reveal in just 24 hours.
903
00:58:28,379 --> 00:58:34,260
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