Prince Harry says he makes sure the queen is “protected and has the right people around her”, confirming that he and Megan drank tea with Her Majesty during a surprise visit on the way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands.
Harry, 37, sat with Hoda Cott, 57, in The Hague, where he currently hosts the Invictus Games.
He arrived in the Netherlands after a quick stop in the UK to visit his grandparents.
Asked by the host of TODAY how the queen is, he replied: “It was great to be with her.
“It was so nice to see her, you know, she’s in great shape, she always has a great sense of humor with me and I make sure she’s protected and has the right people around her.”
Cott asked if he had made her laugh.
“Yes, I did,” he replied.
“Megan and I had tea with her, so it was nice to catch up.
“My home is in the United States right now, and I feel that way.
“We were welcomed with open arms and we have such a great community in Santa Barbara.”
The interview will be broadcast in its entirety on Wednesday morning.
Prince Harry spoke to NBC’s Hoda Cott for an interview broadcast partly on Tuesday night
The queen’s grandson spoke to NBC from the Netherlands, where he hosts Invictus Games – a sports competition for wounded veterans, which he founded in 2014.
The 37-year-old said his priority was to ensure the queen was “protected”
Harry was not accompanied in the interview by his 40-year-old wife, who was in the Netherlands with him over the weekend, but then returned to California to be with their two young children.
Cottb’s interview with the prince will be broadcast in its entirety on Wednesday morning on TODAY
Prince Harry sat down for an interview with Today’s Hoda Kotb, who will see him reveal his secret visit to see the Queen last week and his life with his wife Megan Markle
The interview between Cott and Harry took place in the Netherlands, where the 37-year-old duke is currently hosting Invictus Games
When Harry met Hoda
HODA: How did it feel to be back, to be with her.
HARRY: Being with her was great. It was so nice to see her, you know, she’s in great shape, she always has a great sense of humor with me and I make sure she’s protected and has the right people around her.
WALK: You make her laugh, that’s what she always says. Did you do it again?
Harry: Yes, I did. Both Megan and I drank tea with her, so it was nice to catch up. My home is in the United States for now, and I feel that way. We were welcomed with open arms and we have such a great community in Santa Barbara.
“Cott’s Walk sat with Prince Harry to talk about Invictus, his surprise visit with the Queen and to lie to his wife Megan Markle,” wrote Today on Twitter, while sharing a picture of Cott, Harry and one of the veterans involved. at the sporting event.
Hanging up the interview, which is due to be broadcast in its entirety on Wednesday morning, on Tuesday’s Kotb co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin added that the Duke of Sussex will also discuss fatherhood and life with his two children and Megan, Archie. two, and 10-month-old Lilibet.
News of the interview is likely to raise concerns at Buckingham Palace about what bombs the duke may drop during a live broadcast a little over a year after Sussex’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.
During this controversial meeting, the couple made several damaging accusations against the royal family – the most serious of which accused an unnamed high king of making racist remarks about the skin tone of their son Archie.
Two months later, Harry made further allegations about his family in a five-part series of Apple TV + on mental health, which he co-created with Oprah; on the show, he accused his father, Prince Charles, of making him “suffer” as a child, and claimed that the royal family had tried to silence him and his wife.
Megan will probably not appear in the interview for the Today show; she has already left the Netherlands and returned home to California to reunite with Archie and Lilibeth after admitting to a military veteran of the Invictus Games that she is missing her two children after she was separated from them for the longest since they were born.
Cott, 57, shared several photos of herself with Harry on her Twitter account before the interview aired Wednesday morning.
In the interview, 37-year-old Harry talks about his role as Archie’s father, two years old, and 10-month-old Lilibet, who live on the couple’s $ 14.5 million mansion in California.
Harry and 40-year-old Megan (seen left together at Invictus Games) paid a secret visit to the Queen (seen right last month) last week during a quick stop in the UK
The sit-in is the latest of several media interviews Harry has made since he and Megan arrived in The Hague on Friday for the start of this year’s Invictus Games.
On Monday, the father of two broke his silence over the couple’s meeting with the queen as he spoke to the BBC, saying it was “great to see her” and added that she “would be happy” to attend the Invictus Games with him. .
Harry, who founded the event for wounded, wounded and sick servicemen and women in 2014, said the 96-year-old monarch “had many reports about the UK team” when he met her at Windsor Castle last week.
He added that he handed them over to the team, telling the BBC: “So, it was great to see her and I’m sure she would be happy to be here if she could.”
There were reports that Harry and Megan had promised the queen that they would meet with their great-grandchildren Archie and Lilibet “in the near future” during Thursday’s “very heartfelt” secret meeting.
According to The Mirror, senior royal sources described the meeting as “very cordial” and “incredibly warm and good-natured”.
Sussex’s secret trip was the first time Megan returned to the UK after the couple (seen at the Invictus Games) sensationally left the royal family in early 2020.
The Queen has not yet met her great-granddaughter Lilibet (right), who was born in California last June, and she has not seen Archie (left) since she was a baby.
Harry and Megan chose not to attend Prince Philip’s memorial service last month amid the Duke of Sussex’s ongoing battle with the UK Home Office over his security protection
The interview will also see Harry open to Invictus Games; Today shared an image of the Duke posing next to Cott and one of the participating US veterans
Kotb also posted a behind-the-scenes photo on its social media accounts, while encouraging its followers to join the show on Wednesday.
The presenter today posted a cursory glance at the interview on Instagram, showing how Harry looks down in a seeming moment of reflection during the meeting
A royal biographer claims that the meeting was a way for Prince Harry to “slowly begin to rebuild some bridges” with his father, Prince Charles.
Harry and Megan also reportedly opened the door to return from their $ 14.5 million mansion in California for the Queen’s platinum anniversary celebrations and told her about their plans to visit again so she could spend time with their children.
While the Queen had the opportunity to meet Archie – who was born while Megan and Harry were still living in the UK and working as senior royalty – she had not yet met her great-granddaughter Lilibet, who was named after her.
Megan gave birth to Lilibet Diana in June last year in a hospital near the couple’s home in Montecito and they have not yet brought their daughter to the UK.
The news of Harry’s interview today is likely to raise concerns at Buckingham Palace about what bombs he could drop; the meeting comes a little over a year after the explosive conversation on Sussex with Oprah Winfrey
Cott spoke to Winfrey last year after her interview with Sussex
Key revelations from Prince Harry’s May 2021 bomb interview for “The One You Don’t See”
About Sussex’s cries for help to the royal family
“I thought my family would help, but every request, request, warning, whatever, was just met with complete silence, complete disregard. We spent four years trying to get him to work. We did our best to stay there and continue to do the role and the work. But Megan struggled.
For Harry’s family, which “stops” them from giving up
“This feeling of being trapped in the family was not an option to leave. After all, when I made that decision for my family, I was told, “You can’t do this,” and it’s like, “Well, how bad does it have to be until I’m allowed to do this?” She [Meghan] he would end his life. That should not be the case.
About Megan’s desire to “end her life”
“Megan decided to share with me her thoughts on suicide and the practical aspects of how she will end her life.
“The thing that kept her from going through it was how unfair it would be to me after everything that happened to my mother and now being put in a position to lose another woman in my life – with a baby inside her, our baby.
“The worst thing for her was her clarity of thought. She hadn’t “lost” him. She wasn’t crazy. She did not self-medicate, either through pills or alcohol. She was absolutely sober. She was perfectly reasonable.
About the birth of Prince Charles
“My father used to tell me when I was younger, he used to tell both William and me, ‘Well, it was for me, so it will be for you,'” Prince Harry said in the new documentary.
“That doesn’t make sense.” Just because you have suffered does not mean that your children have to suffer, on the contrary.
For “smears” from the “Company”
“Before the interview with Oprah to …
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