CBS said Tuesday that more than 49.1 million people around the world watched the network’s Sunday night interview with U.S. personality Oprah with Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan; in the United States, the interview drew more than 17.1 million viewers, accounting for nearly one-third of global viewers, more than the recent Golden Globes movie awards, and The ratings do not count the number of people watching online.
In a television interview, Meghan mentioned Marriage and royal Life and said she had thought about suicide. Meghan, who is of African descent, said that when she was pregnant, some members of the royal Family were “concerned” about the color of her son, Archie, which was one of the reasons why the interview was widely discussed. The interview set off a huge wave of public opinion in the United States, with everyone from the president to civilians speaking out. A White House spokesman said it would take courage for anyone to tell the story of his or her struggle with mental health.
A YouGov poll of 2,104 U.S. adults showed 68 percent of Americans said they sympathized with Harry and Meghan, with 35 percent of respondents saying they were “very” sympathetic to the couple. sympathy for the couple.
This figure contrasts with a YouGov poll of Britons, in which only 12 percent of Britons said they were “very” sympathetic to Harry and Meghan, and only 27 percent of the total defended the couple’s position.
In terms of the reasonableness of the interview with Mr. and Mrs. Harry, 44% of American respondents said the interview was reasonable and appropriate; in contrast, 47% of the British public thought the two were not doing the right thing.
Sixty-seven percent of Americans said the British royal family’s treatment of Meghan was racist, with African-American and Latino respondents more so, accounting for 85 percent and 75 percent, respectively; 3/5 of white Americans agreed with this view, and only 1/5 of whites did not think comments about Archie’s skin color were racist.
The New York Times published an article on the 9th, calling Meghan a second Diana. The article said that while British tabloids like to portray Meghan as a villain like the Duchess of Windsor – a divorced American woman who abducted their king in 1936 and lived a miserable life of exile with him, causing an irreparable family rift – -but Harry and Meghan seem determined to position her as today’s Diana, a woman abused by her in-laws who, instead of being guilty, is still the victim of the crime.
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