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Big things cast their shadows ahead: next weekend, the hotly debated TV exclusive interview of Prince Harry (36) and his wife Meghan will be broadcast in Great Britain.

And the producers of US talk legend Oprah Winfrey's show are already beating the drum.

Two short excerpts from the show (to be seen on the night of March 8) are already circulating on Twitter, and the British and US media are also familiar with other statements by the couple, who broke with the British royal family a year ago.

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One thing is clear: Harry and Meghan at Oprah, that is pure Hollywood - dramatic music, exciting cuts and ominous-sounding scraps of conversation that are effectively combined with one another.

Again and again, the talker suggests that something big is being exclusively revealed here ("Just to make it clear to everyone: There is no topic here that is forbidden"), once she says literally: "You just said something very shocking" - What, of course, remains to be seen until the big CBS show.

“It's easy to sit here,” says the prince

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A first tendency can already be seen: Prince Harry and his wives are again portraying themselves as victims of the royal family and the English press.

"I'm really relieved and happy to sit here and talk to you, with my wife by my side," Harry said at the beginning, as if retiring from honorary positions and representative duties posed a real risk to life and limb passed.

In fact, death is also negotiated in this conversation, which was recorded in a tranquil garden setting, with a heavily pregnant Meghan who is constantly patting her baby bump.

It is the accidental death of Lady Diana that Harry, but also the presenter - allegedly a close friend of the couple - repeatedly strive as a backdrop for their own emancipation story.

"My biggest concern was that history could repeat itself," said Diana's son in the previously published excerpt from the conversation.

The princess died in 1997 - pursued by paparazzi - in a traffic accident in Paris.

So it is a story of oppression and heroic emancipation that is echoed here: He, according to the prince, cannot even begin to imagine what it must have been like for his mother to go through the process of being separated from the royal family on his own.

Thanks to his wife, however, he is now much better positioned.

"Because it was incredibly hard for both of us, but at least we had each other," Harry said of his experience.

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The American ex-actress ("Suits") was, as the couple had publicly claimed again and again, in Great Britain also because of her skin color and African American roots, the target of racist insults.

What the Duchess of Sussex herself has to say about all of this is still open: In the two 30-second Oprah video clips that are currently circulating, Meghan can only be seen in silence.