Meghan Markle and Harry: Arbiter on Gayle King’s comments

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Meghan and Prince Harry recently spent two days chatting to talk show host Oprah Winfrey in California about why they left the Royal Family last year. Their dramatic interview was then aired in the UK by ITV last week — and their allegations against the Palace caused a storm among royal watchers all around the world. Both Meghan and Harry suggested they had been “trapped” in the system of the monarchy.

The Duchess then added a comparison which took viewers by surprise.

She told Oprah she could relate to the Disney film, ‘The Little Mermaid’, after watching it in Harry’s home on the Kensington Palace estate in the early days of their relationship.

She explained: “I was sitting in Nottingham Cottage and The Little Mermaid came on.

“Now, who watches, who, as an adult, really watches The Little Mermaid?

“But it came on and I was like, ‘Well, I’m just here all the time so I may as well watch this’.

“And I went, ‘Oh my god, She falls in love with the prince and because of that she has to lose her voice.”

However, Meghan added that by the end of the film “she gets her voice back”, and confirmed she felt she could speak openly now, too.

Royal commentator Rebecca Reid noted: “Whether you like Meghan or not, you can’t deny that it’s a fitting parallel.”

The Duchess of Sussex was a UN ambassador for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women, had her own lifestyle blog called The Tig and was a successful actress when she first met Harry in 2016.

However, when she joined the Royal Family, she had to follow the mantra of “never complain, never explain”, and could not respond to any negative press coverage about her.

The couple claimed that unflattering headlines and the Firm’s reluctance to address them contributed to their decision to leave the Palace last year.

The Disney character Ariel agreed to give away her own voice to a wicked witch so she could exchange her fishtail for legs, and spend time on land with her beloved prince — only to miss her voice desperately.

But, Ms Reid continued: “Just like Ariel, Meghan realised that she had signed a bad deal, a deal which she wanted out of.”

Writing in The Telegraph, she noted: “Though Meghan may have regained her voice, the Sussexes haven’t had their happy ending either — at least not yet.”

The couple are yet to smooth over their relationship with the Royal Family, and some believe their interview with Oprah may have only aggravated existing tensions.

Ms Reid continued: “But when they do, it won’t be with Meghan joining her prince’s world, but the other way around.

“And far from the prince rescuing his princess, it’s Meghan who has saved Harry, freeing her prince from his ivory tower and escaping to their own kingdom.”

The Sussexes have laid down roots in Meghan’s home state of California, in the US, close to her mother Doria Ragland and the couple’s celebrity friends.

Harry also sat beside Meghan in the summer and encouraged the electorate to vote in the upcoming US presidential election — demonstrating an unusual interest in politics, which the Duchess used to openly discuss before she became a royal.

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The couple have also indicated that they will be moving into the entertainment sector through their new vehicle Archewell, and lucrative deals with Spotify and Netflix.

Again, this seems to be a return to Meghan’s pre-royal world.

Meghan also claimed she had all of her independence taken away from her during her time on the royal frontline, which strengthened her comparison to Ariel.

She told Oprah: “I mean, you have to understand, as well, when I joined that family, that was the last time, until we came here, that I saw my passport, my driver’s licence, my keys.

“All that gets turned over. I didn’t see any of that any more.”

Writing in Politico last year, Otto English noted that Walt Disney’s definition of a princess in his early films matches the expectations the Palace has for new royal wives, too.

He said: “Nobody has done more to distill the popular image of what a princess is, what she should wear and how she should behave in the minds of the masses.

He added: “Early Disney, like the House of Windsor, abhors strong women who wish to live on their own terms leaving those traits to the far more interesting wicked witches and female villains.”

Oprah With Meghan and Harry is available on the ITV Hub.

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