ITV has confirmed when it will air Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s highly-anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey.

It is thought the TV channel spent £1million on the rights to air the interview in the UK following a bidding war with competitors.

After the two-hour special airs on CBS in the US on Sunday, it will be shown by ITV on Monday between 9pm and 11pm.

ITV Managing Director Kevin Lygo said: ‘This interview is already a national talking point and ITV is pleased to be able to offer UK audiences the opportunity to see it.’

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to be ‘candid’ about their struggles as senior members of the Royal Family and their decision to start a new life in the US.

Teasers released on Sunday show Oprah, 67, suggesting Meghan’s time in the UK was ‘almost unsurvivable’, amid tensions in the palace and a war with the British press.

Harry is heard saying he feared ‘history repeating himself’ and feared his wife would suffer the same fate as his late mother Princess Diana unless he didn’t start a new life with his family across the Atlantic.

The Sussexes are under increasing pressure to ask either CBS or Oprah to pull or delay the interview while the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, is in hospital.

Prince Philip was admitted to King Edward VII’s hospital in central London on February 16 on what Buckingham Palace said was a precautionary basis.

But on Monday, Harry’s grandfather was transferred by ambulance to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, a specialist cardiac hospital, for testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition, along with treatment for an ‘infection’.

Royal biographers have said airing it this weekend could set off a ‘diplomatic bomb’, with one saying it would be ‘heartless, thoughtless and supremely selfish’ to go ahead with it’.

But CBS have confirmed the interview will go ahead as planned, with millions of dollars worth of advertising already sold for the ‘primetime’ special.

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