Meghan and Harry Oprah interview live: Meghan regrets ‘believing them when they said I would be protected’

I’ll have a recap of what we learned in a few flips of a crumpet.

But Meghan is happy now, she says.

“So your story with the prince does have a happy ending?” says Oprah.

“It does,” says Meghan.

Oprah asks Harry: Do you think [Meghan] saved you?”.

“Without question,” says Harry.

Meghan says it was Harry who saved “all of us”.

“But you need to want to be saved,” says Meghan.

Oprah thanks the couple for sharing their “love story”.

That was harrowing.

Oprah says there will be a little more tomorrow (!) that couldn’t be included tonight as well as reactions from around the world.

Oprah asks whether the couple has any regrets. Harry says no, but that he is so proud of Meghan for “safely delivering Archie” during a really difficult time. He would come home to Meghan breastfeeding Archie while crying.

Meghan says she has one regret: “My regret is believing them when they said I would be protected.”

Harry is very much enjoying the freedom he has now with Archie. Archie’s favourite thing to say is “drive safe” when people leave the house.

Back to the wicker chairs for the interview.

The exit agreement is coming up at the end of March. Is Harry hurt by the decision, Oprah asks.

He is, he says, but be “absolutely respects” the Queen’s decision. In February this year, the palace said the couple would not return as working members of the royal family, adding that they would also be giving up their royal patronages.

We’re back… to the chickens.

Now Meghan is holding a small basket of eggs. The chicken coop says “Archie’s chickens”.

Back to the conversation about Archie’s skin tone.

Harry says, “That conversation I am never going to share.” He felt “awkward” he says, but he is not prepared to share what the question asked was.

“It was at the very beginning,” he says. There were “some real obvious signs even before we got married that this was going to be hard,” he says.

The couple still have Zoom calls with the Queen, says Harry.

His father is taking his calls again, but he still feels “really let down” by Prince Charles.

His father has “been through something similar” but “they only know what they know” – Meghan interrupts to say, “and what they’re told”.

Harry says he loves his brother “to bits” but that they are “on different paths”.

We’re back.

Harry says that the deals with Spotify and Netflix deals were never part of the plan, but that his family cut him off financially in the first half of 2020 and he had to find a way to afford security.

He has what his mother, Princess Diana, left him, but other than that has been cut off financially.

Oprah asks what Harry thinks Diana would say about the couple stepping back.

“I think she would feel very angry and sad at how this all panned out. But I think all she would ever want would be for us to be happy.”

We cut to an ad break – but coming up, Oprah will ask Harry about his allegedly being asked by family about how dark Archie’s skin might be before he was born.

Oprah asks Meghan about her role in “Megxit” and whether it was “all intentional to build your brand”.

Nobody prepared her for her role or how to be a royal. They didn’t even think of preparing her to sing the British national anthem, she says.

Oprah asks Harry whether he would have stepped back were it not for Meghan.

“No,” says Harry, he would not. “I was trapped but I didn’t know I was trapped.”

Oprah asks how exactly he was trapped.

“Trapped within the system, like the rest of my family are. My father, my brother they are trapped,” he says.

Harry says he never thought that as a prince born into the family, he never imagined he would have his security removed.

Meghan says she appealed to the family to at least maintain Harry’s security, even if they would not provide security for her and Archie.

Harry calls Meghan “one of the greatest assets to the Commonwealth that the family could have ever asked for.”