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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Oprah interview: Duke of Sussex opens up about Diana’s death in first trailer

<p>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle</p> (CBS)

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

(CBS)

Oprah Winfrey has said there are “no subjects off limits” in a preview of her highly-anticipated interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

CBS has released two 30-second excerpts from Oprah With Meghan And Harry: A CBS Primetime Special which is set to air at 8pm EST in the US on Sunday, which is 1am on Monday in the UK.

In the clip, Harry said he feared “history repeating itself” in a reference to his mother’s death, and described the couple’s public relationship as “unbelievably tough”.

The clips, released on Sunday, show Harry and Meghan sitting opposite Oprah in the grounds of their California home in Montecito. At one point in the trailer, Oprah tells viewers: “Just to make it clear to everybody, there is no subject that is off-limits”.

The first video begins with Oprah asking Meghan if she was “silent or silenced”.

She then asks the duchess: “Almost unsurvivable. Sounds like there was a breaking point?” The clip then quickly cuts to the duke commenting: “My biggest fear was history repeating itself” - an apparent reference to the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

In the second video, Harry says he is grateful to have had Meghan’s support throughout his exit from royal life, while also expressing admiration for what his mother had to endure under similar circumstances.

He tells Winfrey: “I’m just really relieved and happy to be sitting here, talking to you, with my wife by my side, because I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like for her, going through this process by herself, all those years ago.

“Because it has been unbelievably tough for the two of us, but at least we had each other.”

The 90-minute special will be the couple’s first sit-down interview together since their BBC engagement interview in November 2017.

The duke and duchess were reportedly keen for the interview to be broadcast on the BBC. But the BBC is said to have ruled itself out of negotiations to broadcast the tell-all interview, making ITV the frontrunner to win the UK rights.

It was ITV that secured the last major interview by the Sussexes during their October 2019 tour of southern Africa.

The duchess talked to journalist Tom Bradby - a long-time friend of Prince Harry - about her life in the spotlight. The duke also acknowledged a “rift” with his brother, the Duke of Cambridge, for the first time.

It comes days after Harry’s appearance on US talk show The Late Late Show, in which he told host James Cordon the “toxic” atmosphere created by the British press is what forced him and his family to leave the UK.

In the extraordinary interview, the Duke of Sussex said he had “stepped back not stepped away” because his mental health was being “destroyed” and maintained that his “life is public service”.

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