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[laughing]

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-[female interviewer] Alright.
-[male voice] Good morning Sir.

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[laughing]

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[female interviewer] Your Royal Highness
and Meghan Markle,

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congratulations to you both.

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Thank you.

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[female interviewer]
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.
-[Meghan] Mm-hmm.

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Um, earlier this month.
Here at our cottage.

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[female interviewer 2]
In your engagement interview, er--

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[laughs] Orchestrated reality show, yep.

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[tense music playing]

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[Meghan] It was, you know, rehearsed.

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[camera shutters clicking]

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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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[camera shutters clicking,
machine whirring]

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[female presenter] <i>Well hearts are</i>
<i>broken worldwide this morning</i>

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<i>certainly because he's probably the most</i>
<i>popular member of the Royal Family…</i>

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[male voice] <i>The official news</i>

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<i>Prince Harry</i>
<i>and Meghan Markle are in an engagement…</i>

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[town crier yells]
Buckingham Palace proudly announces

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the engagement
of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

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-God save the queen.
-[bell jingling]

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[interviewer 2] 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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[Harry] 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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[camera shutters clicking]

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[female interviewer1] 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. [laughs]

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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--
-[Meghan] 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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[woman] <i>I think this is the happy ending</i>

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<i>that people have wished for,</i>
<i>for Prince Harry.</i>

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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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[Meghan] His family has been so welcoming.

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-Katherine's been absolutely amazing.
-She's been wonderful.

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[Harry] Amazing, as has William, as well.

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[female interviewer1]
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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[female presenter]
<i>Not just a mention of an American bride</i>

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<i>but also with a mixed race background.</i>

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-[male presenter1] <i>First, of mixed race</i>
-[male presenter2] <i>Many things about her,</i>

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-<i>make her relevant to this generation…</i>
-[male presenter3] <i>So much scrutiny…</i>

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[interviewer1] 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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[parade music playing]

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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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[laughing] That's true.

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[snickering] That's the consistency.

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That is consistent. Yeah.

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Until now.

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[female interviewer2]
I guess that's why we're here.

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[emotive theme music playing]

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-[camera shutters clicking]
-[crowd clamoring] Meghan!

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[David] 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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[tense music playing]

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[David] 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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[Afua] It's often said
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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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[tense music continues]

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[Afua] It was overseas. It was far away.

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It was out of sight and out of minds.

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[male presenter] <i>Jamaica becomes</i>
<i>this incredibly profitable center</i>

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<i>of British slavery.</i>

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<i>And then of course,</i>
<i>there's the settlements in North America.</i>

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<i>Tobacco in Virginia</i>
<i>and Maryland, rice from the south.</i>

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<i>Slavery is fueling</i>
<i>this early British empire.</i>

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[Afua] The first ever commercial
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was personally financed
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And it continued
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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,
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In 1807, Britain abolished its slave trade

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and in the 1830s
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But even when we tell
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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
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It's just another way
in which our memory of British slavery

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has been airbrushed
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[crowd singing]
♪ <i>God save our gracious Queen</i> ♪

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♪ <i>Long live our noble King…</i> ♪

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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
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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
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[wistful music playing]

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[Afua] In the mid-twentieth century,
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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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[David] 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
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is that there is a call
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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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[man] <i>Nottingham, this morning,</i>

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<i>center of attention</i>
<i>on both sides of the Atlantic.</i>

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<i>The crowds waiting to take their place</i>

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<i>in the fairy-tale of the soldier</i>
<i>Prince and the Hollywood actress.</i>

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-[instrumental music playing]
-[crowd muttering indistinctly]

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Harry's brought his bird
to town so I brought mine.

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[man] And why are you here?

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Um, just to see Meghan.
That's it. [laughing]

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[man] <i>This is the moment which</i>
<i>will be played around the world.</i>

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<i>The first Royal test for Meghan Markle.</i>

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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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-[instrumental music continues]
-[crowd cheering]

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[Harry] I could talk her
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from my own experience of what I'd seen.

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The piece I really didn't
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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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[Harry]
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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[crowd cheering]

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[female presenter] <i>Just days</i>
<i>since we found out they were engaged,</i>

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<i>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle</i>
<i>were on their first ever Royal Walkabout.</i>

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[male presenter] <i>As an actress,</i>
<i>Meghan Markle is used to</i>

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<i>the red carpet and all these crowds.</i>

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<i>This however is something else.</i>

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-[woman] Hey, Meghan.
-[Meghan laughing] 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.
-[woman] Yeah.

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[voice1 in crowd] Meghan.

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She was delightful. She was lovely.

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[voice2 in crowd]
Meghan, we love you! Ooh!

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[voice3 in crowd] Meghan!

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Everybody was just
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And I think people looked at it and went,
"Wow, what a breath of fresh air."

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[indistinct conversation]

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[woman1] Good addition
to the Royal family.

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[woman2] Definitely.

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-An American.
-The mixed kids.

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Yeah, mixed kids in the Royal Family now.
[laughing]

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[man1] What a day for Meghan Markle.

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[man2] There was no doubt
who sparkled the most today.

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[Harry] 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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[Meghan] H, can you DJ?

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[Harry] Mm.

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[pop music beat]

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-[Meghan] Elton. [laughs]
-[Mandana] An Elton? I'll take it.

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[Meghan] 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."
-[man laughing]

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[Meghan] 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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[Daniel] Oh my goodness.

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-It's so crazy! [laughing]
-[Meghan] I know.

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Nothing has changed,
except for everything.

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[both laughing]

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[Mandana] 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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[Meghan] Mostly royal experts?

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Is this one mine?

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-[Mandana] I don't understand what that.
-[Daniel] Yes.

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Someone can
just call themselves a royal expert?

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[Meghan] That's a question for my husband.

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People can
just call themselves royal experts?

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-[Harry] Well no, it's the same as…
-[Mandana] 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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[camera shutters clicking]

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[Tim] 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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[instrumental music playing]

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[Tim] 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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[man in crowd] Can we just see the ring?

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[Tim] …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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[camera shutters clicking]

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[Tim] 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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[Tim] 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 <i>Telegraph</i>, 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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-[thoughtful music playing]
-[camera shutters clicking]

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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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[thoughtful music continues]

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[Afua] Harry and William
are the first generation

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that I've seen
grow up under that contract.

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[camera shutters clicking sporadically]

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[Afua] 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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[camera shutters clicking]

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[tense music playing]

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-[lively music playing]
-[indistinct conversation]

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[man] Rota!
A couple of steps back, please.

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Sorry, keep moving.

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[James] 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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[camera shutters clicking]

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[James] 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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[camera shutters clicking]

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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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-[soft music playing]
-[crowd hailing indistinctly]

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[James] 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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[clicks tongue]

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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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[Meghan] 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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[Meghan] 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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[melancholic music playing]

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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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[woman] 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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[wistful music playing]

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[Meghan] And we just hit it off.

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And then she and I just started,
like… I was on <i>Suits</i> at the time.

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So I said, "Let's go on vacation."

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[Asleigh] 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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[Meghan]
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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[Ashleigh] 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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[soft instrumental music]

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[female interviewer] 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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-[crowd muttering indistinctly]
-[camera shutters clicking]

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[Harry]
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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[intriguing music plays]

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[Meghan] 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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[Jazz piano music playing]

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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."

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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."

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[soft instrumental music playing]

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[male presenter]
<i>Tonight, there is a new royal scandal.</i>

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<i>The wife of one of the queen's cousin,</i>
<i>Princess Michael of Kent,</i>

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<i>wore what's called a blackamoor brooch</i>
<i>to the Queen's annual Christmas Lunch.</i>

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<i>The jewelry is widely viewed as racist.</i>

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<i>And the decision to wear it</i>
<i>quickly drew criticism on social media.</i>

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[upbeat instrumental music playing]

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[Afua] 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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[eerie music playing]

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[Harry] 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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[woman1] <i>British headline writers</i>
<i>have been salivating today,</i>

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<i>Prince Harry's choice to wear</i>
<i>a Nazi uniform earlier this month</i>

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<i>to a private party has caused outrage.</i>

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[woman2] <i>Many are questioning</i>
<i>the sensitivity of a 20-year old Prince</i>

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<i>who chooses to party in a Nazi uniform.</i>

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[Harry] It was probably one
of the biggest mistakes in my life.

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I felt so ashamed afterwards.

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[wistful music playing]

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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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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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[woman] Everyone, the Duke and Duchess.

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[Meghan] Hi, how are you?

461
00:26:41,808 --> 00:26:43,184
Okay, thank you.

462
00:26:43,977 --> 00:26:45,395
-Hi.
-[Meghan] How're you doing?

463
00:26:45,478 --> 00:26:47,355
-[Harry] Hi, guys.
-[Meghan] Hello.

464
00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:49,774
[Harry] How long have you guys
been sitting in here for?

465
00:26:49,858 --> 00:26:51,151
In silence.

466
00:26:51,234 --> 00:26:53,570
[Harry] Hello, hello.

467
00:26:53,653 --> 00:26:54,696
[Harry] Probably having breakfast too.

468
00:26:54,779 --> 00:26:55,613
[man] Yeah.

469
00:26:55,697 --> 00:26:57,907
[Meghan] Hi every body. How are you doing?

470
00:26:57,991 --> 00:26:59,200
[Harry] I'm never gonna
remember these names so…

471
00:26:59,284 --> 00:27:01,036
-[a few officers laughing]
-[woman] Look, we don't know each other.

472
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,079
[Harry] It is just like speech.

473
00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:04,873
[man] It's so weird.

474
00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:07,250
[Meghan] Watching my husband over there,

475
00:27:07,334 --> 00:27:09,753
you could see how much joy
it brings him to be back on a base.

476
00:27:09,836 --> 00:27:12,756
So he immediately
goes back to military banter.

477
00:27:13,340 --> 00:27:17,344
Everybody, it's amazing how long you all
stay on. The pension's 20 years, right?

478
00:27:17,427 --> 00:27:18,636
[woman] Once you get to a certain point,

479
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,263
it's like the point of no return.

480
00:27:20,347 --> 00:27:23,058
You're like, "Oh, 12 years-ish?
Well, may as well stay now."

481
00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:24,976
[Harry] Well, I signed up with the three.

482
00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:29,522
And then they kept dangling the carrot
of different options in front of me.

483
00:27:29,606 --> 00:27:31,983
And I ended up serving ten years.

484
00:27:32,067 --> 00:27:35,278
[wistful music playing]

485
00:27:35,362 --> 00:27:37,197
[Harry] My ten years in the army,

486
00:27:38,114 --> 00:27:43,078
it gave me a lived experience that other
members of my family wouldn't have had.

487
00:27:47,999 --> 00:27:52,295
Two tours in Afghanistan, flying
apache helicopters on a military base

488
00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:54,714
means that you grow up pretty fast.

489
00:27:56,508 --> 00:27:58,134
Jeez, I went to war twice.

490
00:28:00,970 --> 00:28:02,931
[gunshots]

491
00:28:04,140 --> 00:28:05,683
[Harry] The people that I met

492
00:28:06,643 --> 00:28:08,686
and the lifelong friends made,

493
00:28:10,188 --> 00:28:11,731
that was my second family.

494
00:28:12,649 --> 00:28:18,238
Because that… for that point.
Yeah, there's still scars left open from

495
00:28:18,321 --> 00:28:21,658
from my mum's awesomeness…
[laughs] to put it mildly.

496
00:28:22,242 --> 00:28:25,203
Hopefully, she'll be proud.
William sent me a letter

497
00:28:25,286 --> 00:28:27,664
saying how proud he reckons she'll be.

498
00:28:28,706 --> 00:28:31,751
You know, it's one thing that I don't
necessarily think about the whole time

499
00:28:31,835 --> 00:28:33,461
because I've got the guys to worry about.

500
00:28:37,132 --> 00:28:41,219
We've been married ten years and done
five moves since we've been married so…

501
00:28:41,302 --> 00:28:44,305
[Harry] Three kids in ten years,
and five moves.

502
00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:47,642
-Yeah, so we've been busy. [laughs]
-[others laughing]

503
00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:49,853
-Well, not that way. [laughing]
-[others laughing]

504
00:28:49,936 --> 00:28:53,314
Well, in every way.
That's good, that's cool. That's fine.

505
00:28:53,398 --> 00:28:55,108
[all laughing]

506
00:28:55,191 --> 00:28:59,112
Working and living with normal people…

507
00:28:59,195 --> 00:29:01,906
and I fully appreciate
that my life is not normal…

508
00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:05,034
Has… certainly has
an effect on you, right?

509
00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:09,581
The bubble within the bubble
that I was brought up in got burst.

510
00:29:12,208 --> 00:29:15,628
Ultimately, I'm so grateful for it.

511
00:29:15,712 --> 00:29:17,088
[somber music playing]

512
00:29:17,172 --> 00:29:20,133
And that was all before I met Meghan.

513
00:29:22,385 --> 00:29:26,514
What I'd like to say is, depression
is a family secret that we all share.

514
00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:29,851
And sharing our story
allows others to tell theirs in return,

515
00:29:29,934 --> 00:29:32,562
so on behalf of the Bulldogs,

516
00:29:32,645 --> 00:29:35,607
and ur, those
that help generate the airplanes

517
00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:38,234
that deliver hope to others,
I wanna give this to you.

518
00:29:39,486 --> 00:29:41,613
-Thank you very much.
-[male officer] I appreciate that.

519
00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:47,911
[female officer] So this coin comes
from the 108 maintenance squadron.

520
00:29:47,994 --> 00:29:50,079
I'm the commander, that
squadron's first female commander.

521
00:29:50,163 --> 00:29:51,414
-Breaking barriers--
-[Meghan] They'll know.

522
00:29:51,498 --> 00:29:52,373
[laughing]

523
00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:55,293
But, uh, it means a lot to me
to be able to give this to you

524
00:29:55,376 --> 00:29:57,754
because of all the barriers
that you've broken for the world.

525
00:29:57,837 --> 00:29:59,756
-And that's very special.
-[Meghan] Thank you.

526
00:29:59,839 --> 00:30:02,801
Sir, no offense, but this is her…

527
00:30:02,884 --> 00:30:05,887
-[Harry] If anyone that starts with that…
-[others laughing]

528
00:30:05,970 --> 00:30:07,263
[laughing]

529
00:30:07,347 --> 00:30:11,476
[Meghan] Our life was, "Okay,
we're gonna do this job together," and…

530
00:30:12,727 --> 00:30:15,730
that felt great cause I'd been doing
that on my own for so long.

531
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:19,234
I also think, what she was
already doing, what I was already doing,

532
00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:24,489
that sort of came together
in this beautiful matrimony.

533
00:30:26,282 --> 00:30:28,743
[crowd applause]

534
00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:42,882
[female moderator] Welcome to
the very first Royal Foundation forum.

535
00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:45,385
Now, the principle of working together

536
00:30:45,468 --> 00:30:48,596
is in the foundation's DNA.
This is the only charity--

537
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,684
[James] The Royal Foundation was
the charity that was originally set up

538
00:30:52,767 --> 00:30:58,523
for William and Harry
to launch their charitable endeavors.

539
00:30:58,606 --> 00:30:59,941
[indistinct conversation]

540
00:31:00,024 --> 00:31:02,235
[female presenter]
<i>Their Royal Foundation is a team effort</i>,

541
00:31:02,318 --> 00:31:04,612
<i>but we also seem to get an insight</i>

542
00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:07,782
<i>into how Meghan</i>
<i>may want to do things her own way.</i>

543
00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:09,784
[male narrator] <i>Most attention was</i>
<i>on Meghan Markle and</i>

544
00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:11,661
<i>what sort of issues she will take on.</i>

545
00:31:11,744 --> 00:31:15,957
Meghan, it's well known, you've championed
the empowerment of women and young girls,

546
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,792
and promoting their self-worth.

547
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:21,880
How do you hope to continue
that work with the Royal Foundation?

548
00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:25,884
Um, women don't need to find a voice.
They have a voice.

549
00:31:25,967 --> 00:31:27,760
They need to feel empowered to use it.

550
00:31:27,844 --> 00:31:29,929
And people need
to be encouraged to listen.

551
00:31:30,013 --> 00:31:32,432
And I think right now,
in the climate that we're seeing,

552
00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:35,768
with so many campaigns, I mean MeToo…

553
00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:40,106
there is no better time than
to really continue to shine a light on

554
00:31:40,189 --> 00:31:43,985
women feeling empowered
and people really helping to support them.

555
00:31:44,068 --> 00:31:46,654
[female reporter] <i>This is the first time</i>
<i>that we've heard anyone</i>

556
00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:51,117
associated with the Royal Family
talking about those campaigns.

557
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,162
Kate, for example,
didn't wear black to the BAFTAs.

558
00:31:54,245 --> 00:31:57,457
And Camilla, who also
supports women's organizations

559
00:31:57,540 --> 00:32:01,586
hasn't mentioned MeToo or or TimesUp.
The Kensington Palace stressed…

560
00:32:01,669 --> 00:32:05,423
[Tim] It's important
to remember the Royal Family in the UK

561
00:32:05,506 --> 00:32:08,217
and the causes that they champion

562
00:32:08,301 --> 00:32:11,679
are deliberately non-controversial.

563
00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:14,515
Meghan was more of an activist.

564
00:32:14,599 --> 00:32:16,517
I didn't know that that…

565
00:32:17,727 --> 00:32:19,938
would be taboo to talk about.

566
00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:21,856
To me, it was just topical.

567
00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:25,944
All the work you do together is great
but working together as family,

568
00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:27,904
do you ever have
disagreements about things?

569
00:32:27,987 --> 00:32:29,322
[laughing]

570
00:32:29,405 --> 00:32:30,406
Oh yes.

571
00:32:30,490 --> 00:32:32,533
[crowd laughing]

572
00:32:32,617 --> 00:32:33,660
Healthy disagreements.

573
00:32:33,743 --> 00:32:36,663
Okay, the last thing
you disagreed on, how did you resolve it?

574
00:32:37,622 --> 00:32:40,500
Uh, I can't remember…
They come so thick and fast!

575
00:32:40,583 --> 00:32:42,085
[crowd laughing]

576
00:32:42,168 --> 00:32:43,628
-But is it resolved? We don't know.
-We don't know.

577
00:32:43,711 --> 00:32:44,629
Oh, you don't know?

578
00:32:44,712 --> 00:32:46,923
Well, you're putting on
a great show if it's not.

579
00:32:47,590 --> 00:32:51,010
[male presenter] <i>The younger Royals held</i>
<i>first event as a foursome this morning.</i>

580
00:32:51,594 --> 00:32:54,597
<i>We were looking at the future</i>
<i>of the British monarchy.</i>

581
00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:56,849
[female presenter]
<i>This is the woman who's turning</i>

582
00:32:56,933 --> 00:33:00,103
<i>Britain's most traditional</i>
<i>brand on its head.</i>

583
00:33:00,186 --> 00:33:03,481
<i>Meghan Markle isn't British,</i>
<i>she's been married before,</i>

584
00:33:03,564 --> 00:33:07,276
<i>she's mixed-race,</i>
<i>and she doesn't shy away from politics.</i>

585
00:33:07,944 --> 00:33:10,989
<i>That will have to stop now,</i>
<i>of course, in public at least.</i>

586
00:33:12,532 --> 00:33:14,117
[Meghan] Joining this family,

587
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,621
I knew that there was a protocol
for how things were done.

588
00:33:18,705 --> 00:33:22,125
And, do you remember that old movie,
<i>Princess Diaries</i> with Anne Hathaway?

589
00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:24,210
-[classical film music plays]
-Me?

590
00:33:24,293 --> 00:33:28,297
A… a princess? Shut up!

591
00:33:28,381 --> 00:33:33,261
I can teach you to walk, talk, sit,
stand, eat, dress like a princess.

592
00:33:33,344 --> 00:33:36,097
There's no class
and some person who goes, "Sit like this.

593
00:33:36,180 --> 00:33:39,100
Cross your legs like this.
Use this fork. Don't do this.

594
00:33:39,183 --> 00:33:42,395
Curtsy then. Wear this kind of hat."

595
00:33:42,478 --> 00:33:43,563
-It doesn't happen.
-[lively classical music playing]

596
00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:46,691
[female presenter] <i>Some people</i>
<i>on Twitter are suggesting it looked a bit</i>

597
00:33:46,774 --> 00:33:48,693
<i>like the Happy Poo emoji.</i>

598
00:33:48,776 --> 00:33:52,989
[poignant piano music playing]

599
00:33:54,741 --> 00:33:56,409
So I needed to learn a lot.

600
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,911
Including the National Anthem. [laughs]

601
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:01,080
[female interviewer] How did you learn it?

602
00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:03,332
Oh, I Googled it.

603
00:34:03,416 --> 00:34:04,500
[keyboard clicking]

604
00:34:04,584 --> 00:34:07,336
[British National anthem plays]

605
00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:11,090
<i>Well, girls, your last day</i>
<i>at the Zermat school for young ladies.</i>

606
00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:14,010
<i>Your final and most important lesson.</i>

607
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.

608
00:34:18,097 --> 00:34:20,391
[female presenter1]
<i>She broke Royal protocol by the…</i>

609
00:34:20,475 --> 00:34:22,852
[female presenter1]
<i>…she and Harry are not yet married.</i>

610
00:34:22,935 --> 00:34:27,982
And then on top of that,
with the press lots of invented protocols.

611
00:34:29,692 --> 00:34:31,694
[Meghan] There was baptism by fire.

612
00:34:31,778 --> 00:34:33,071
[crowd cheering, clamoring]

613
00:34:33,154 --> 00:34:35,323
[female voice1 in crowd]
Meghan! We love you, Meghan!

614
00:34:35,406 --> 00:34:36,908
[female voice2 in crowd] Give us a wave!

615
00:34:39,368 --> 00:34:41,037
[female voice 3 in crowd] Meghan!

616
00:34:42,538 --> 00:34:45,291
[interviewer] I have to ask, did anyone
have to teach you how to do the wave?

617
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…"

618
00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:52,381
I don't know. I guess you don't wanna wave

619
00:34:52,465 --> 00:34:55,343
like an American. Like, "Hey!" [laughing]

620
00:34:55,426 --> 00:34:56,886
Everything is just…

621
00:34:56,969 --> 00:34:59,263
[comic music plays]

622
00:34:59,347 --> 00:35:00,515
…smaller.

623
00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:07,855
[telephone ringing]

624
00:35:09,023 --> 00:35:11,400
-[Meghan] Hello?
-[male voice] Hello?

625
00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:13,152
-[Meghan exuberantly] Hi!
-[woman 3] Hi, how are you?

626
00:35:13,236 --> 00:35:14,070
[Meghan] Come on in.

627
00:35:14,153 --> 00:35:16,114
-[man] Should we take our shoes off?
-[woman1] Ah, yeah. I think it's fine.

628
00:35:16,197 --> 00:35:18,199
It's fine. How are you?

629
00:35:18,282 --> 00:35:19,909
-[man] I'm good. And you?
-[woman1] Oh my gosh. Look at this.

630
00:35:19,992 --> 00:35:22,286
[woman2] You too. Come in.

631
00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:30,628
[Meghan] Wow. Look at this piece.

632
00:35:30,711 --> 00:35:32,672
I mean, we really went
from dress to dress.

633
00:35:32,755 --> 00:35:34,215
-Yes? Okay.
-[man] We go dress to dress.

634
00:35:34,298 --> 00:35:37,343
[poignant piano music playing]

635
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:41,514
[woman] Does it feel tight?

636
00:35:41,597 --> 00:35:43,224
No. Not at all. It feels great.

637
00:35:45,601 --> 00:35:47,228
[Meghan] I step into this?

638
00:35:49,564 --> 00:35:50,648
[man] Have you ever had four people
helping you into a dress?

639
00:35:50,731 --> 00:35:52,066
[Meghan] No! Never!

640
00:35:55,194 --> 00:35:56,362
[woman] The safety pins.

641
00:35:56,445 --> 00:35:58,156
Please tell me you're getting that.

642
00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:59,740
[Harry laughs]

643
00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:01,742
[Harry] There are now three people
under your dress.

644
00:36:04,787 --> 00:36:06,497
-[chuckling]
-[Meghan] Do you have enough light?

645
00:36:06,581 --> 00:36:08,040
[laughing]

646
00:36:08,124 --> 00:36:10,459
-[man] You're offering me a flashlight?
-This is called a rhetorical question.

647
00:36:10,543 --> 00:36:12,044
[all laughing]

648
00:36:12,128 --> 00:36:13,212
[Meghan] Good?

649
00:36:13,296 --> 00:36:15,214
[Harry] The color is amazing.

650
00:36:15,298 --> 00:36:17,258
[camera shutters clicking]

651
00:36:17,341 --> 00:36:20,386
[Meghan] Most of the time
that I was in the UK,

652
00:36:20,469 --> 00:36:22,513
I rarely wore color.

653
00:36:22,597 --> 00:36:26,142
-[instrumental music playing]
-[camera shutters clicking]

654
00:36:26,225 --> 00:36:29,896
[Meghan] There was thought in that.
To my understanding,

655
00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:32,899
you can't ever wear
the same color as Her Majesty,

656
00:36:32,982 --> 00:36:34,317
if there's a group event.

657
00:36:34,901 --> 00:36:36,736
But then you also should never
be wearing the same color

658
00:36:36,819 --> 00:36:39,822
as one of the other
more senior members of the family.

659
00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:44,702
So I was like, "Well, what's a color
that they'll probably never wear?"

660
00:36:45,494 --> 00:36:48,873
Camel? Beige? White?

661
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.

662
00:36:55,004 --> 00:36:57,632
Like, I'm not trying to stand out here.

663
00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:03,971
So there's no version
of me joining this family

664
00:37:05,097 --> 00:37:08,184
and trying to not do
everything I could to fit in.

665
00:37:09,143 --> 00:37:11,103
I don't want to embarrass the family.

666
00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:15,775
[wistful music playing]

667
00:37:15,858 --> 00:37:17,860
[female presenter1] <i>Some of</i>
<i>the bride's family don't know yet</i>

668
00:37:17,944 --> 00:37:20,238
<i>if they'll be invited to Windsor Castle,</i>

669
00:37:20,321 --> 00:37:23,699
<i>including Meghan's half-sister,</i>
<i>Samantha Markle,</i>

670
00:37:23,783 --> 00:37:27,411
<i>who's made plenty of her own headlines</i>
<i>in the leadup to the Royal Wedding.</i>

671
00:37:27,495 --> 00:37:31,040
[female presenter2] <i>Her half-sister is</i>
<i>also writing a tell-all disparaging book.</i>

672
00:37:31,123 --> 00:37:33,251
<i>Kensington Palace is not commenting.</i>

673
00:37:33,334 --> 00:37:35,962
<i>But you guys, to be a fly</i>
<i>on the wall when he gets to meet</i>

674
00:37:36,045 --> 00:37:37,380
<i>Harry and the Royal Family</i>
<i>for the first time.</i>

675
00:37:37,463 --> 00:37:41,259
We were playing whack-a-mole everyday.

676
00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:43,344
It was like,
"Wait, another one popped up. Wait, stop.

677
00:37:43,427 --> 00:37:45,638
Another story popped." Constant.

678
00:37:45,721 --> 00:37:49,642
They were going through
the woodwork and pulling out people

679
00:37:49,725 --> 00:37:53,604
to create and plant the most
salacious stories that they could.

680
00:37:53,688 --> 00:37:55,898
[tense music playing]

681
00:37:56,941 --> 00:37:59,026
And then it started to get scary.

682
00:37:59,735 --> 00:38:02,071
[female presenter]
<i>Police say a white powder letter</i>

683
00:38:02,154 --> 00:38:03,698
<i>was sent</i>
<i>to soon-to-be-Royal, Meghan Markle…</i>

684
00:38:03,781 --> 00:38:07,243
…package was since learnt to be
some kind of white substance…

685
00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:11,080
<i>…Markle has been subjected to a wave</i>
<i>of abuse and of harassment…</i>

686
00:38:11,163 --> 00:38:12,248
in National newspapers and…

687
00:38:12,331 --> 00:38:14,709
This was on the heels
of those terrorist attacks, right?

688
00:38:14,792 --> 00:38:16,085
So there was so much
concern about the wedding.

689
00:38:17,503 --> 00:38:21,173
And it was just so scary and they
were talking about getting snipers and…

690
00:38:21,257 --> 00:38:22,300
It was a public event, right?

691
00:38:25,928 --> 00:38:27,847
[Meghan] Behind the scenes of all that…

692
00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:32,393
I was just turtling.

693
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:41,777
[Ashleigh] Communication with
Meg became… less and less frequent.

694
00:38:42,903 --> 00:38:45,990
My impression was that her relationships

695
00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:50,578
were being managed on some level.

696
00:38:51,495 --> 00:38:53,956
[instrumental music playing]

697
00:38:54,040 --> 00:39:00,087
[James] For every duke and duchess,
there is also a communication team.

698
00:39:00,171 --> 00:39:04,258
Comms for the Royal Family
is very similar to a press office,

699
00:39:04,342 --> 00:39:08,804
Press spokesperson for politicians
and businesses, celebrities.

700
00:39:09,805 --> 00:39:12,767
[speaker id] There is a Communications
team at Buckingham Palace,

701
00:39:12,850 --> 00:39:15,686
at Clarence House, at Kensington Palace,

702
00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:21,150
all of whom had a primary duty
to their own principals.

703
00:39:22,151 --> 00:39:26,364
These communications teams
allow the Family

704
00:39:26,447 --> 00:39:30,868
to be one step removed
from dealing with the media.

705
00:39:30,951 --> 00:39:36,415
Overall, there is an aspiration
for a controlled narrative.

706
00:39:37,416 --> 00:39:41,295
[Harry] Our comms team at that time
was joined with my brother's office.

707
00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:45,299
So in total, there was only
one person really dedicated to us.

708
00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:46,967
So it really was a huge undertaking.

709
00:39:47,051 --> 00:39:50,054
[tense music playing]

710
00:39:51,097 --> 00:39:52,807
[Meghan] I don't think anyone understands

711
00:39:52,890 --> 00:39:57,353
what that very small
comms team was dealing with.

712
00:39:57,436 --> 00:40:02,066
They just couldn't wrap their heads
around it. And I have compassion for it.

713
00:40:02,149 --> 00:40:07,113
How do we explain that this
half-sister isn't invited to the wedding,

714
00:40:07,196 --> 00:40:10,116
but that the half-sister's daughter is?

715
00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:13,786
And so with Ashleigh,

716
00:40:13,869 --> 00:40:17,623
the guidance at the time
was to not have her come to our wedding.

717
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

718
00:40:23,963 --> 00:40:27,716
what guidance we were being given
and why this assessment was made and…

719
00:40:31,846 --> 00:40:33,264
And that's painful.

720
00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:39,854
I think I said I was hurt
on some level but I…

721
00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:44,066
understood where it was coming from.

722
00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:47,403
[melancholic music playing]

723
00:40:47,486 --> 00:40:52,616
To know that it was
because of my biological mother that

724
00:40:53,409 --> 00:40:57,746
this relationship
that's so important to me

725
00:40:57,830 --> 00:40:59,790
was impacted in that way…

726
00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:08,382
To feel like because of her,
it was taken away…

727
00:41:10,050 --> 00:41:11,343
it's been hard.

728
00:41:19,685 --> 00:41:22,771
[male presenter1] <i>Across the pond tonight,</i>
<i>a save-the-date notice of sorts,</i>

729
00:41:22,855 --> 00:41:24,899
<i>as the Palace has released new details…</i>

730
00:41:24,982 --> 00:41:26,734
[male presenter1]
In the run up to the wedding…

731
00:41:26,817 --> 00:41:28,068
[poignant music playing]

732
00:41:28,152 --> 00:41:31,697
the sense of excitement
for the country was incredible.

733
00:41:32,573 --> 00:41:35,743
It's wonderful.
She's different, she's the 21st century.

734
00:41:35,826 --> 00:41:36,994
That's what we need now.

735
00:41:37,077 --> 00:41:38,996
[man] Yeah man,
it's just a good, happy feeling.

736
00:41:39,079 --> 00:41:40,789
You gotta like a good old wedding.

737
00:41:40,873 --> 00:41:43,709
First and foremost, I was pretty surprised
Harry could actually bag a girl like that.

738
00:41:43,792 --> 00:41:45,461
[crowd clamoring]

739
00:41:45,544 --> 00:41:48,923
They were just
so evidently really in love.

740
00:41:49,548 --> 00:41:51,383
And I think it radiated out.

741
00:41:51,467 --> 00:41:52,760
Everyone's happy.

742
00:41:53,427 --> 00:41:55,221
[Meghan] Nice. [laughing]

743
00:41:55,304 --> 00:41:59,099
I'm looking at it through
the lens of my friend, not a Princess.

744
00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:02,978
They as a couple are so tight.

745
00:42:03,562 --> 00:42:06,941
And rely on each other so much,
and are each other's

746
00:42:07,024 --> 00:42:09,652
best, best friends.

747
00:42:12,363 --> 00:42:15,157
[Serena] I was just super excited.

748
00:42:20,579 --> 00:42:23,290
[female presenter]
<i>This is a big day for Meghan Markle.</i>

749
00:42:23,374 --> 00:42:25,918
<i>Just minutes ago,</i>
<i>the Royal Family arrived.</i>

750
00:42:26,001 --> 00:42:30,756
<i>at Westminster Abbey in central London</i>
<i>for a service marking Commonwealth Day…</i>

751
00:42:30,839 --> 00:42:32,466
[male presenter]
<i>The many-colored flags were carried</i>

752
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:36,845
<i>by young nationals of the countries</i>
<i>joining in the celebrations.</i>

753
00:42:36,929 --> 00:42:42,184
It remains a great pleasure and honor
to serve you as Head of the Commonwealth.

754
00:42:42,268 --> 00:42:46,438
Here at Buckingham Palace, in 1949,

755
00:42:46,522 --> 00:42:49,400
my father met the Heads of Government

756
00:42:49,483 --> 00:42:52,945
when they ratified the London Declaration,

757
00:42:53,028 --> 00:42:55,990
which created
the Commonwealth as we know it today.

758
00:42:56,865 --> 00:42:58,534
[man] <i>God save the King.</i>

759
00:42:58,617 --> 00:43:01,245
-[crowd cheering]
-[instrumental music playing]

760
00:43:01,328 --> 00:43:02,955
[Afua] When you study the transition

761
00:43:03,038 --> 00:43:05,416
from colonialism
to independence in those countries,

762
00:43:05,499 --> 00:43:08,460
you see that Britain
played a very strategic role.

763
00:43:10,546 --> 00:43:14,508
Britain calculated that it needed
to grant these countries independence

764
00:43:14,592 --> 00:43:18,304
in a way that protected
its commercial and capitalist interest.

765
00:43:18,387 --> 00:43:22,808
So it created this privileged club
of formally colonized nations

766
00:43:22,891 --> 00:43:24,268
called the Commonwealth.

767
00:43:24,893 --> 00:43:27,271
[male presenter] <i>Excitement</i>
<i>in Accra, capital of the Gold Coast,</i>

768
00:43:27,354 --> 00:43:28,230
<i>reached its first climax</i>

769
00:43:28,314 --> 00:43:31,609
<i>with the preparations</i>
<i>for welcoming the royal visitor.</i>

770
00:43:31,692 --> 00:43:32,818
[Robert] The British Monarchy

771
00:43:32,901 --> 00:43:36,196
is different from
the other monarchies in Western Europe

772
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,824
in being an international monarchy,

773
00:43:38,907 --> 00:43:42,953
with the Queen being Head of State to over
a dozen other countries around the world.

774
00:43:43,662 --> 00:43:45,497
[Queen Elizabeth] On my 21st birthday,

775
00:43:45,581 --> 00:43:50,085
I am 6000 miles
from the country where I was born.

776
00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:53,672
But I am certainly
not 6000 miles from home.

777
00:43:55,049 --> 00:43:59,053
At the center of the argument
for the monarchy in this country,

778
00:43:59,678 --> 00:44:00,804
is the Commonwealth.

779
00:44:01,639 --> 00:44:06,185
The Queen made it her life mission
to fight for this institution.

780
00:44:06,268 --> 00:44:07,353
She's famous for it.

781
00:44:07,436 --> 00:44:11,231
She's deeply respected
for having kept this institution together.

782
00:44:11,899 --> 00:44:15,861
[Queen Elizabeth] I declare
before you all that my whole life,

783
00:44:15,944 --> 00:44:17,404
whether it be long or short,

784
00:44:18,530 --> 00:44:22,743
shall be devoted to the service
of our great Imperial family,

785
00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:24,453
to which we all belong.

786
00:44:26,246 --> 00:44:29,917
If we all go forward together
with an unwavering faith,

787
00:44:30,793 --> 00:44:34,296
the Commonwealth
will continue to offer stability

788
00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:37,508
and continuity for future generations.

789
00:44:41,595 --> 00:44:43,305
[Afua] The Commonwealth
is still described as that, you know,

790
00:44:43,389 --> 00:44:45,974
a club of friends who share common values.

791
00:44:46,058 --> 00:44:47,893
I find that language really problematic.

792
00:44:47,976 --> 00:44:51,230
I sometimes call
the Commonwealth "Empire two point zero"

793
00:44:51,313 --> 00:44:53,315
because that is what it is.

794
00:44:53,899 --> 00:44:56,235
Well, it's not changed a thing,
they've just got better PR.

795
00:44:57,152 --> 00:44:59,113
If you look at the Black people
in the Commonwealth,

796
00:44:59,196 --> 00:45:03,283
well their conditions are almost just
as bad as they were 50 or 100 years ago.

797
00:45:04,785 --> 00:45:05,994
[Afua] And the roots of that poverty

798
00:45:06,078 --> 00:45:09,623
are based on the extraction
of their wealth elsewhere.

799
00:45:09,706 --> 00:45:14,128
Those in Britain who extracted that wealth
continue in inter-generational wealth.

800
00:45:14,211 --> 00:45:17,923
Those from whom it was extracted
continue to be inter-generationally poor.

801
00:45:18,006 --> 00:45:20,426
It's a very clear economic relationship.

802
00:45:20,509 --> 00:45:22,219
[indistinct conversation]

803
00:45:22,302 --> 00:45:26,014
[Afua] And yet, the current narrative
in Britain is that it's old history,

804
00:45:26,098 --> 00:45:27,891
there's no point looking back.

805
00:45:28,767 --> 00:45:34,273
It's incredibly painful for the
very many millions of British people

806
00:45:34,356 --> 00:45:38,402
who have a different memory
of empire in their personal background.

807
00:45:38,485 --> 00:45:41,572
[indistinct clamoring]

808
00:45:41,655 --> 00:45:43,866
[David] And yet, here was a woman

809
00:45:43,949 --> 00:45:47,453
who just looked like
most of the people in the Commonwealth.

810
00:45:48,495 --> 00:45:51,290
Meghan represented something.

811
00:45:51,373 --> 00:45:52,249
There was a hope,

812
00:45:52,332 --> 00:45:55,502
"Well, maybe this is a way of
having these difficult conversations

813
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:57,754
that had been pushed away so many times.

814
00:46:03,510 --> 00:46:04,845
[female presenter] <i>Prince Harry</i>
<i>and Meghan Markle will attend</i>

815
00:46:04,928 --> 00:46:06,513
<i>a small special memorial later</i>

816
00:46:06,597 --> 00:46:10,309
<i>to mark the 25th anniversary</i>
<i>of the death of Stephen Lawrence.</i>

817
00:46:11,101 --> 00:46:13,395
[female presenter] <i>An 18-year-old boy</i>
<i>has been stabbed to death</i>

818
00:46:13,479 --> 00:46:15,481
<i>as he waited for a bus</i>
<i>with a friend in Southeast London.</i>

819
00:46:15,564 --> 00:46:17,065
[male presenter]
<i>Not far away, he and a friend</i>

820
00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:19,067
<i>were approached</i>
<i>by a gang of up to half a dozen…</i>

821
00:46:19,151 --> 00:46:23,822
[female presenter] <i>…stabbed by a group</i>
<i>of white thugs in an unprovoked attack.</i>

822
00:46:23,906 --> 00:46:28,577
This was a story of two tragedies.

823
00:46:28,660 --> 00:46:32,080
The murder of Stephen Lawrence,
and then the inability

824
00:46:32,164 --> 00:46:35,918
of the legal system
and of the police to provide justice.

825
00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:38,086
[male presenter1] <i>No one has ever been</i>
<i>convicted over the death of Stephen.</i>

826
00:46:38,170 --> 00:46:40,088
[male presenter2]
<i>Local feeling about racist attacks</i>

827
00:46:40,172 --> 00:46:42,633
<i>in this area has been</i>
<i>running high for over two years now.</i>

828
00:46:43,258 --> 00:46:46,428
[woman] I'm absolutely shocked.
I didn't expect this to happen again.

829
00:46:46,512 --> 00:46:49,181
How much is it?
How much is a Black life worth?

830
00:46:49,848 --> 00:46:52,226
[male presenter1] <i>Pandemonium</i>
<i>outside the Stephen Lawrence enquiry</i>

831
00:46:52,309 --> 00:46:53,519
<i>as the five suspects…</i>

832
00:46:53,602 --> 00:46:56,647
[male presenter2] <i>Fighting broke out at</i>
<i>the Stephen Lawrence enquiry today</i>

833
00:46:56,730 --> 00:47:00,108
<i>as the five young white men</i>
<i>fought with an angry crowd.</i>

834
00:47:00,192 --> 00:47:01,735
[crowd clamoring]

835
00:47:02,319 --> 00:47:06,365
[David] It was such an egregious,
such an appalling, such a disturbing case

836
00:47:06,448 --> 00:47:09,868
-that it became too difficult to ignore.
-[crowd chanting]

837
00:47:10,827 --> 00:47:13,705
And it made the complaints,
the observations,

838
00:47:13,789 --> 00:47:16,583
the experiences
of Black people difficult to deny.

839
00:47:19,002 --> 00:47:21,922
[male presenter] <i>Hanging</i>
<i>over this memorial, the terrible fact</i>

840
00:47:22,005 --> 00:47:26,093
<i>that only two of Stephen's killers</i>
<i>have been brought to justice.</i>

841
00:47:26,176 --> 00:47:28,387
[melancholic music playing]

842
00:47:28,470 --> 00:47:30,430
[Afua] I think that
it was really significant

843
00:47:30,514 --> 00:47:32,015
that Meghan and Harry
visited this memorial

844
00:47:32,099 --> 00:47:35,894
because it represented
a direct attempt to speak to the pain

845
00:47:35,978 --> 00:47:38,730
that many people still feel as a result
of the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

846
00:47:38,814 --> 00:47:40,899
A quarter of a century later,

847
00:47:40,983 --> 00:47:43,819
we could only imagine
the man who Stephen would have become.

848
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:48,740
And that was really welcomed
by many Black communities in Britain.

849
00:47:48,824 --> 00:47:51,702
[crowd applause]

850
00:47:51,785 --> 00:47:54,329
[Afua] I always perceived Prince Harry as

851
00:47:55,163 --> 00:47:59,209
just another senior royal
who's a little bit racist,

852
00:47:59,293 --> 00:48:01,295
very ignorant…

853
00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:05,757
But I have watched him on this journey
and seen that he has really embraced

854
00:48:05,841 --> 00:48:08,927
the education that is required
for someone like him,

855
00:48:09,845 --> 00:48:12,681
to transform themselves
into an anti-racist.

856
00:48:15,517 --> 00:48:20,188
[parade music playing]

857
00:48:20,272 --> 00:48:24,776
The excitement here in Windsor…
[crowd cheering] it's building.

858
00:48:24,860 --> 00:48:25,861
[lively instrumental music playing]

859
00:48:25,944 --> 00:48:27,487
[female presenter]
<i>We've reached the final 12 days.</i>

860
00:48:27,571 --> 00:48:29,197
[male presenter1]
<i>I cannot believe it's this close.</i>

861
00:48:29,281 --> 00:48:31,241
[male presenter2]
<i>A hundred thousand people will be trying</i>

862
00:48:31,325 --> 00:48:32,868
<i>to squeeze onto</i>
<i>these pavements on Saturday…</i>

863
00:48:32,951 --> 00:48:35,829
She's going to make history
on the 19th of May.

864
00:48:35,912 --> 00:48:37,539
And we're ever so proud of Meghan.

865
00:48:37,623 --> 00:48:38,790
Is it going to be a wild one?

866
00:48:38,874 --> 00:48:40,292
[woman] Aw, definitely!

867
00:48:40,375 --> 00:48:42,961
[lively instrumental music ends]

868
00:48:43,045 --> 00:48:47,424
[man] Meghan Markle's route to the
chapel on the morning of 19th May

869
00:48:47,507 --> 00:48:49,635
will start off unconventionally

870
00:48:49,718 --> 00:48:52,346
because it will be her mother
who will be in the car with her

871
00:48:52,429 --> 00:48:56,183
as she drives here
along the long walk up to the castle.

872
00:48:56,266 --> 00:49:00,812
Meghan will meet her father, Thomas Markle
at the West Steps to St. George's Chapel

873
00:49:00,896 --> 00:49:03,315
before he walks her down the aisle.

874
00:49:03,398 --> 00:49:06,193
But when Meghan's father flies in
on the week before the wedding,

875
00:49:06,276 --> 00:49:10,781
he will be meeting his daughter's soon-
to-be husband for the very first time.

876
00:49:12,658 --> 00:49:15,035
[Lucy] There was excitement
leading up to the wedding

877
00:49:15,118 --> 00:49:19,956
but she also had
to contend with everybody else.

878
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:24,544
[tense music playing]

879
00:49:30,217 --> 00:49:31,760
[Harry] It's amazing what people would do

880
00:49:31,843 --> 00:49:33,804
when offered a huge amount of money.

881
00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:40,102
Fifty thousand, a hundred thousand,
to hand over photographs,

882
00:49:40,185 --> 00:49:41,687
to create a story…

883
00:49:44,606 --> 00:49:48,235
And thank God most of them said no.

884
00:49:48,318 --> 00:49:54,658
[tense music continues]

885
00:49:54,741 --> 00:49:55,951
[Meghan] The week before our wedding,

886
00:49:56,034 --> 00:50:00,539
We got a call
from our joint communications secretary.

887
00:50:00,622 --> 00:50:04,543
He said, "This story is going
to come out tomorrow

888
00:50:04,626 --> 00:50:08,213
saying your father has been staging
pictures and taking money from the press."

889
00:50:08,296 --> 00:50:09,423
And I was like, "What kind of pictures?"

890
00:50:09,506 --> 00:50:10,549
[camera shutters clicking sporadically]

891
00:50:12,843 --> 00:50:15,846
[James] They were
relatively innocuous enough.

892
00:50:15,929 --> 00:50:22,144
You know, there was…
one of him looking at a book

893
00:50:22,769 --> 00:50:24,646
of the UK.

894
00:50:24,730 --> 00:50:27,649
I remember I naively went into the office

895
00:50:27,733 --> 00:50:29,943
and I said, "Isn't that sweet?"

896
00:50:30,026 --> 00:50:33,822
As I genuinely was in this, sort of,

897
00:50:33,905 --> 00:50:37,200
matrimony love-fest bubble.

898
00:50:37,284 --> 00:50:42,748
And a colleague sort of brought me
down to earth fairly quickly

899
00:50:42,831 --> 00:50:45,500
and said, "That's a setup."

900
00:50:48,962 --> 00:50:50,756
[Meghan] That was
the first I was hearing of it.

901
00:50:50,839 --> 00:50:52,174
[soft music playing]

902
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

903
00:50:55,427 --> 00:50:57,679
or not because
it could be really damaging."

904
00:51:00,682 --> 00:51:02,517
H and I called my dad.

905
00:51:03,810 --> 00:51:07,105
I said, "They're saying you're taking
money from the tabloids to stage photos.

906
00:51:07,189 --> 00:51:08,815
Is this true?" He says, "No."

907
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,

908
00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:19,785
then it's going to come out tomorrow

909
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

910
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."

911
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."

912
00:51:31,797 --> 00:51:33,882
And he said,
"No. I have things I need to do."

913
00:51:37,093 --> 00:51:39,304
And it felt really cagey.

914
00:51:41,765 --> 00:51:44,100
[in a lowered voice]
I was like, "It doesn't make sense."

915
00:51:44,893 --> 00:51:46,228
And when we hung up,

916
00:51:48,271 --> 00:51:50,065
I looked at H.

917
00:51:52,609 --> 00:51:55,153
I was like, "I don't know why
but I don't believe him."

918
00:51:56,863 --> 00:52:00,826
[female presenter] <i>The buzz, this morning,</i>
<i>centers around Meghan Markle's father.</i>

919
00:52:03,995 --> 00:52:05,038
[tense music plays]

920
00:52:05,121 --> 00:52:08,667
[male presenter] <i>Mr. Markle allegedly</i>
<i>staged photos of himself for paparazzi,</i>

921
00:52:08,750 --> 00:52:12,170
<i>selling them</i>
<i>for a reported 100,000 dollars.</i>

922
00:52:12,254 --> 00:52:16,299
This is tabloid fodder. They're going
crazy with this story this morning.

923
00:52:17,551 --> 00:52:21,513
[James] Everyone was so frantic
with preparing for the wedding itself.

924
00:52:22,222 --> 00:52:25,725
And then all of a sudden,
it just exploded.

925
00:52:26,476 --> 00:52:28,478
I was absolutely stunned

926
00:52:28,562 --> 00:52:33,733
that Tom would become part of this circus.

927
00:52:33,817 --> 00:52:35,735
As the photo scandal swirls around…

928
00:52:35,819 --> 00:52:38,655
[Doria] I felt sad that
the media would run with this.

929
00:52:38,738 --> 00:52:40,699
[male presenter] Do you have
any reaction to your ex-husband's

930
00:52:40,782 --> 00:52:44,077
apparently staging
photos for the paparazzi?

931
00:52:45,161 --> 00:52:48,039
[Doria] That he would capitalize…

932
00:52:50,166 --> 00:52:54,296
Certainly as a parent. It's not…
No. That's not what you do.

933
00:52:54,379 --> 00:52:55,881
That's not parenting.

934
00:52:57,966 --> 00:53:00,844
Paps and journalists immediately
were following him all day everyday.

935
00:53:01,428 --> 00:53:04,890
The unraveling happened that week
when he wouldn't pick up my call.

936
00:53:04,973 --> 00:53:07,100
And instead you're talking to TMZ.

937
00:53:07,183 --> 00:53:08,310
[tense music continues]

938
00:53:08,393 --> 00:53:11,521
We just broke
a big bad story on our website.

939
00:53:11,605 --> 00:53:15,984
Meghan Markle was supposed to be
walked down the aisle by her father.

940
00:53:16,067 --> 00:53:21,156
And we found out from her father,
not only would he not do that,

941
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:24,117
he's not gonna attend the wedding at all.

942
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,203
And I'm finding out
that you're not coming to our wedding…

943
00:53:28,914 --> 00:53:30,540
through a tabloid.

944
00:53:33,418 --> 00:53:36,004
[male presenter] Meghan's father,
73 years old Thomas Markle,

945
00:53:36,087 --> 00:53:37,923
reportedly suffering a heart attack,

946
00:53:38,006 --> 00:53:40,550
after enduring
a scandal these past three days

947
00:53:40,634 --> 00:53:43,595
with staged
paparazzi photos that went viral.

948
00:53:43,678 --> 00:53:46,056
[Meghan] And then suddenly
they were saying he was in the hospital.

949
00:53:46,139 --> 00:53:47,349
[tense music continues]

950
00:53:47,432 --> 00:53:49,434
I said, "What's going on?
Please just pick up the phone.

951
00:53:49,517 --> 00:53:52,354
Like, We're not mad.
Just please pick up the phone."

952
00:53:56,858 --> 00:54:00,570
He told me he had
a heart attack six days ago.

953
00:54:00,654 --> 00:54:03,865
-We need to know what's going on.
-[Meghan] Calling and calling.

954
00:54:03,949 --> 00:54:06,743
[male presenter1] <i>This is not him saying,</i>
<i>"I will… I don't wanna be there."</i>

955
00:54:06,826 --> 00:54:08,328
[male presenter2]
<i>No, I get it. I'm not saying…</i>

956
00:54:08,411 --> 00:54:11,164
The world is watching this drama play out.

957
00:54:11,247 --> 00:54:14,000
[male presenter]
<i>For everybody, Thomas Markle</i>

958
00:54:14,084 --> 00:54:16,878
[speaker id]

959
00:54:16,962 --> 00:54:20,131
[speaker id]

960
00:54:20,215 --> 00:54:22,717
Once it was said in the media,
he just stopped calling

961
00:54:22,801 --> 00:54:25,512
We need to know what's going on.
I don't understand what's going on.

962
00:54:25,595 --> 00:54:28,431
"Are you okay? What hospital are you at?"

963
00:54:29,224 --> 00:54:31,017
We were just trying
to understand what's going on.

964
00:54:31,101 --> 00:54:36,439
[male presenter] <i>How do you not have</i>
<i>your daddy at your wedding?</i>

965
00:54:43,321 --> 00:54:45,699
[soft music playing]

966
00:54:45,782 --> 00:54:50,745
And then,
someone texted back on his phone.

967
00:54:53,957 --> 00:54:58,044
It was really weird.
You know how people text, right?

968
00:54:58,128 --> 00:55:00,130
Like, you know,
my dad used a lot of emojis

969
00:55:00,213 --> 00:55:03,091
and a lot of like,
ellipses and dot-dot-dot and…

970
00:55:04,467 --> 00:55:08,179
And this was just the opposite.

971
00:55:10,181 --> 00:55:11,766
And it called me Meghan.

972
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.

973
00:55:18,481 --> 00:55:21,985
Meg. All my friends call me Meg
and my parents call me Meg.

974
00:55:22,068 --> 00:55:23,820
And I was like, "That's not my dad."

975
00:55:28,491 --> 00:55:31,745
So then, we knew that
his phone had been compromised.

976
00:55:38,043 --> 00:55:41,004
And we said, "Pick up the phone.
We need to know it's you."

977
00:55:42,422 --> 00:55:43,339
Never spoke to him.

978
00:55:46,843 --> 00:55:50,305
Of course, it's incredibly sad what
happened. She had a father before this.

979
00:55:50,388 --> 00:55:51,723
And now she doesn't have a father.

980
00:55:52,557 --> 00:55:54,851
And I shouldered that.

981
00:55:54,934 --> 00:55:57,604
Because if Meg wasn't with me,

982
00:55:57,687 --> 00:56:02,233
then her dad would still be her dad.

983
00:56:06,029 --> 00:56:07,489
Okay, great too.

984
00:56:07,572 --> 00:56:09,991
-Hi, Daddy. I got the English award.
-[Thomas] I know.

985
00:56:10,992 --> 00:56:14,746
Okay. Alright. Am I there? I wonder.

986
00:56:14,829 --> 00:56:18,666
Okay. See you later. Bye-bye.
Where's the little button?

987
00:56:18,750 --> 00:56:20,460
[wistful music playing]

988
00:56:20,543 --> 00:56:22,879
[young Meghan] Woah.
I gotta zoom back on you.

989
00:56:22,962 --> 00:56:24,631
Gotta push that button in the back.

990
00:56:34,641 --> 00:56:38,103
[female presenter1] <i>We're about 24 hours</i>
<i>away from the Royal Wedding and excited…</i>

991
00:56:38,186 --> 00:56:40,313
[female presenter2] <i>More than</i>
<i>two billion people worldwide</i>

992
00:56:40,396 --> 00:56:42,690
<i>are expected to watch the wedding on TV.</i>

993
00:56:42,774 --> 00:56:44,359
[speaking Romania]

994
00:56:44,442 --> 00:56:46,152
[speaking Arabic]

995
00:56:46,236 --> 00:56:48,279
[female presenter] <i>There is</i>
<i>so much excitement in the air.</i>

996
00:56:48,363 --> 00:56:52,534
[male presenter] <i>In so many ways,</i>
<i>this is a Royal Wedding unlike any other.</i>

997
00:56:53,118 --> 00:56:56,121
<i>The big reveal in just 24 hours.</i>

998
00:56:56,204 --> 00:56:57,372
[camera shutters clicking]

999
00:56:59,249 --> 00:57:03,294
["Stand By Me" by Otis Redding playing]

1000
00:57:16,182 --> 00:57:19,978
♪ <i>When the night has come</i> ♪

1001
00:57:22,605 --> 00:57:26,568
♪ <i>And the land is dark and the moon</i> ♪

1002
00:57:27,902 --> 00:57:31,406
♪ <i>Is the only, only light we see</i> ♪

1003
00:57:33,366 --> 00:57:37,203
♪ <i>No, I won't be afraid</i> ♪

1004
00:57:37,287 --> 00:57:42,459
♪ <i>No no no no no I won't be afraid</i> ♪

1005
00:57:42,542 --> 00:57:47,881
♪ <i>Just as long, just as long</i>
<i>Just as long as you stand by me</i> ♪

1006
00:57:49,007 --> 00:57:51,801
♪ <i>Now darling, darling</i> ♪

1007
00:57:53,636 --> 00:57:56,639
♪ <i>Whenever I'm in trouble</i>
<i>Darling, won't you stand</i> ♪

1008
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,935
♪ <i>I need just a little</i>
<i>Helping hand right now now</i> ♪

1009
00:58:02,145 --> 00:58:05,315
♪ <i>And darling, darling</i>
<i>Won't you stand by me</i> ♪

1010
00:58:08,151 --> 00:58:12,071
♪ <i>If the sky we look upon now, now</i> ♪

1011
00:58:14,157 --> 00:58:19,245
♪ <i>Should tumble and fall</i>
<i>All of the mountains</i> ♪

1012
00:58:19,329 --> 00:58:22,081
♪ <i>May crumble, may crumble to the sea</i> ♪

1013
00:58:25,126 --> 00:58:28,296
♪ <i>I won't cry, I won't cry…</i> ♪

1014
00:58:28,379 --> 00:58:34,260
Subtitle translation by: Regina Njoku