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Oprah asks Meghan about having come from a very different background from the other royals.
“Thank God,” Meghan says, that she had life experience. She knew what it was to be independent. Then she was silent.
“Was she silent or silenced,” Oprah asks.
“The latter.”
Oprah talks about how the coverage of Kate’s pregnancies were covered differently to Meghan’s.
Meghan does not read the coverage of her, Oprah reminds us.
Kate was praised for holding her baby bump. For Meghan it was the reverse.
Kate was praised for eating avocado. Meghan’s avocado toast was linked to “environmental devastation”.
“That’s a loaded piece of toast,” says Meghan.
When the story came out – that Meghan had made Kate cry – months later, she would have hoped the palace would do something, because they knew it was untrue.
She says she doesn’t tell…
