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11m people in the UK tune in to watch the Duke & Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey

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9th March 2021
Just over 11m people tuned in to watch the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey which aired on ITV in the UK on Monday evening. According to overnight figures posted by BARB, the interview attracted a 54% share of the television audience. At the programme’s peak, 12.3m people tuned on ITV to watch the highly anticipated interview. In America, 17.2m people watched…
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The Queen refuses to sign off Buckingham Palace statement addressing Harry & Meghan's Oprah interview

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8th March 2021
The Queen has refused to sign off a Buckingham Palace statement addressing the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday as the monarch requests more time to consider a response. According to The Times, Buckingham Palace was ready to release a statement yesterday in an effort to de-escalate tensions. However, the 94-year-old monarch did not grant her…
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America's response to the Sussex interview

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8th March 2021
It was a television event that was almost as hyped-up as the Super Bowl, with some Americans even hosting viewing parties. But despite many in the States being more supportive of Team Sussex than in the UK, Sunday’s Oprah interview still had a mixed response in the…
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Meghan on Thomas Markle: "I genuinely can’t imagine doing anything to intentionally cause pain to my child"

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8th March 2021
Last night’s Oprah interview has revealed much about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s time in the Royal Family, but one topic that remained unclear was Meghan’s relationship with her father, Thomas Markle. Today CBS This Morning released previously unaired clips from the interview, including one of the duchess talking about her family. “There was such an obsession about anything in my…
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The British papers: first responses to Harry and Meghan's interview

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8th March 2021
On the day that England begins the long walk out of lockdown, the first tiptoe steps back towards normality are pushed from the front pages by one story and one story alone. The interview given by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex to Oprah Winfrey is everywhere and that’s before it even airs in the UK. In fact, only the i newspaper and the Financial Times don’t feature either an image of Harry…
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