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Meghan and Harry Oprah interview: Duchess of Sussex says it’s ‘liberating’ to ‘speak for herself’ in new trailer

<p>A third preview clip from Meghan and Harry’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey was released today</p> (CBS)

A third preview clip from Meghan and Harry’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey was released today

(CBS)

The Duchess of Sussex has said she now is able to speak and make choices for herself in a new trailer released today ahead of her and Prince Harry’s tell-all Oprah Winfrey interview.

Meghan, 39, and Harry, 36, have sat down with American broadcaster Winfrey, with their two-hour interview due to be broadcast on Sunday night in the States. ITV will show the interview on Monday at 9pm.

Today, in a third preview clip released by CBS, Winfrey and Meghan speak about how the broadcaster approached the duchess for an interview ahead of her 2018 wedding to Harry - and how she turned the host down.

Meghan also said she struggled transitioning from having an independent life to one within the “construct” of the royal family following her marriage.

Meghan added it was “liberating” to enjoy the “right and the privilege” to speak for herself in this new interview.

About asking for an interview in 2018, Winfrey said: “And you said ‘I’m sorry it’s not the right time’. Finally we get to sit down and have this conversation.”

Meghan replied: “I remember that very well.. I wasn’t even allowed to have that conversation with you personally. There were other people in the room.”

Winfrey replied: “You turned me down nicely… you said ‘perhaps there will be another time’. What is right about this time?”

Meghan said: “Well, so many things… that we are on the other side of a lot of life experience that’s happened, and also that we have the ability to make our own choices in a way that I couldn’t have said yes to you then… that wasn’t my choice to make.

“So, as an adult who lived a really independent life to then go into this construct that is... different than I think what people imagine it to be, it’s really liberating to be able to have the right and the privilege in some ways to be able to say yes, I’m ready to talk.”

Winfrey then says: “And to say it for yourself?”

Meghan agrees: “To say it for yourself.... To be able to just make a choice on your own and just be able to speak for yourself.”

The couple’s interview with the US television host is expected to lift the lid on their short period working for the Firm – as the Royal Family is sometimes known – before they stepped down last March and moved to America.

It comes after a teaser clip released from the interview earlier this week showed Meghan accusing the”The Firm” of “perpetuating falsehoods” about her and Harry.

In the clip, released on Wednesday, Meghan defended her decision to speak to the chat show queen suggesting she could not “stay silent.”

The 30-second clip saw Winfrey ask the duchess: “How do you feel about the Palace hearing you speak your truth today?”

She replies: “I don’t know how they could expect that, after all of this time, we would still just be silent if there is an active role that The Firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us.

“And, if that comes with risk of losing things, I mean, I…there is a lot that has been lost already.”

The interview was recorded in mid-February before any recent royal developments.

But the preview came hours after Buckingham Palace announced it will investigate allegations of bullying made against the duchess by former royal staff.

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