The Oprah Fallout, Day 2: Britain Absorbs A Lesson, The Queen Responds, A Major Morning TV Host Resigns Over Meghan Markle

The Oprah Fallout, Day 2: Britain Absorbs A Lesson, The Queen Responds, A Major Morning TV Host Resigns Over Meghan Markle

Share to Linkedin The Calm Before The Storm: Oprah Winfrey interviews Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on A CBS ... [+] Primetime Special premiering on CBS on March 7, 2021. (Photo by Harpo Productions/Joe Pugliese via Getty Images) In London this morning, it's been hard to say which has been the more extraordinary response to Prince Harry's and Meghan Markle's long-form March 7 interview with Oprah Winfrey: The Queen's personal message of sadness and hope, issued by Buckingham Palace Tuesday evening; the continuously roiled Parliament calling, metaphorically anyway, for Harry's head; or Britain's major morning TV host Piers Morgan walking off the set of own program, and ultimately resigning from his co-anchor position on it, as he was challenged for his stridently anti-Meghan Markle views. In short, London's turmoil over Meghan Markle brims with historical irony, given the gravity of Prince Harry's and Ms. Markle's charges of racism and mistreatment against them by major British institutions. Because: One powerful sub-narrative to the Oprah interview of the couple was that, had the Palace or the press acted with a more generous understanding of the gravity of the couple's situation at the time, the situation now would be different. It didn't happen