A GARDEN in California, March 2021. The most famous TV interviewer in the world is talking to the most famous couple to turn their back on the royal family in recent history and the globe is gripped.
Many issues are discussed – mental health, snubs by the royals, tears over bridesmaids’ dresses. But the one revelation that’s most jaw-dropping of all is that a senior royal had had “conversations” about what the skin colour of Harry and Meghan’s unborn child would be.
Oprah was appalled, the world was shocked: who could the offending royal be? Well, we now know – if what’s been revealed is true, of course.
It’s King Charles. But wait, that’s not all – the Princess of Wales also weighed in on the skin-colour matter, although in not as obvious a way.
For Charles, barely a year in his job, it must be a nightmare, no matter how blithely he carried on, attending the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai and insisting he was all right before jokingly referring to his age after recently turning 75.
Kate too was in usual dazzling working mode, arriving at the Royal Variety Performance with William and ignoring
