She surprised Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah. But it is unlikely to change the monarchy.

The Duchess said that she has reached “breaking point”, that she has suicidal thoughts, and cannot be left alone, for fear of what she might do herself. Megan said that she sought help from the minors, sought specialist mental health care, but was denied and told, essentially, to keep her strength and ride it. “I didn’t want to be alive anymore,” Megan told Winfrey. “I thought it was going to solve everything for everyone.” The two-hour interview was not light entertainment, and although it took place in the light of the Southern California sun, the program was at times – using Harry’s own words – “too dark.” While the couple had nothing but gentle words to say about Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, they mocked the palace, which they described as particularly harsh, and nearly unshakable. The royal family and employees acting as “the company” or “the corporation,” making it unclear to whom they were complaining. Did the interview do much damage to the monarchy in the public eye? This is likely not, at least an irreparable harm – partly because after the fourth season of the hit Netflix series “The Crown,” many people think the royals are distant and dysfunctional. Indeed, this is how Harry and Meghan described them as a family “trapped” in their roles and who “lived in fear” of the British tabloid press. The interview was broadcast in the United States and made the front pages of British newspapers. But Britons will have to wait until Monday 9pm to watch ITV in the UK, as early reactions in Britain focused on Meghan’s admission that she felt suicidal. It’s hard to predict whether the interview will be good or bad for the Sussex family, as the couple has become polarized in Britain, with Meghan’s many fans and detractors. Nevertheless, Winfrey’s show allowed the couple to explain themselves, the pressures they felt and the reasons for leaving Britain. The prince said there is an “invisible contract” between the Windsors and the tabloids, in which the royal family is willing to have wine and dine in the press to get better treatment. “I am fully aware of my family’s position and how much they fear the tabloids will turn against them,” he said. Harry called it a “fear judgment” by tabloids: The couple accused the coverage of Megan – and the couple’s first son Archie – was racist. Equally disturbing them, the Duchess said that when she was pregnant with Archie, there were concerns and conversations about how dark his skin would be when this conversation was with Harry and not Meghan. Asked by Winfrey who told her husband about it, Megan replied to the family. “I think this would be very harmful to them,” she said. Harry declined to say who the conversation was with, and the couple stressed that they would have preferred to remain – for the rest of their lives – as “senior members of the royal family working,” but they said the mood was good. The Duchess said the palace PR teams were willing to lie to protect other members of the royal family, but would not correct false reports about them. “They were not prepared to protect me and my husband,” Megan said. Or as Harry said: “Share some truth or summon the dogs or something else.” To give one example, Megan said that the stories she claimed made Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge cry, were actually the opposite of what had happened, and instead, Kate made Megan cry in a row over dresses for the flower girls at the wedding, and the TV conversation had the echoes of an interview with me. NBC’s famous 1995 with Princess Diana, and in this exchange, Diana Martin tells Bashir about Prince Charles and his weight. Bulimia and she did not get support from minors. Megan spoke of suicidal thoughts and lack of support from minors. The Duchess said she entered the royal family “naively,” and even needed a quick lesson in appropriate minutes before meeting the Queen. The first time, Megan in the interview sought to correct some headlines. She said it’s not true that she and Harry didn’t want Archie to get the title Prince, saying it was a decision by others, and Megan said she doesn’t care about the title as much as she does about the impact of not being Prince Archie. Harry said her son would not be provided with security, and Harry said the palace had withdrawn their security details, and after the Daily Mail published the location of their temporary home in Vancouver, Canada, the couple felt vulnerable and weak. Death threats. “I never thought my security would be removed. Because I was born in this danger,” Harry said the couple did everything they could to stay in the family. He talked about “a lot of pain” with his father, who at one point stopped getting his calls From Canada, the Prince also talked about his mental health and how his wife helped him understand his suffering. Harry said, “I was trapped but I didn’t know I was trapped.” Winfrey expressed surprise, saying that Harry was loved, that he was a prince, so how exactly was he trapped? Within the system, we are like the rest of my family. Harry said, “My dad, my brother – they’re trapped.”