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The Oprah interview proved that the duchess won’t be silenced.
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After the trial separation, here comes the messy divorce. And a vital question: Who gets custody of the narrative?
It has been less than a month since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle finalized their split from the British Royal Family, renouncing their patronages and honorary appointments as well as their income. The fallout between the couple and Buckingham Palace has been painful and public. “There is a lot that has been lost already,” Meghan told Oprah Winfrey in a two-hour interview broadcast last night on CBS her relationship with her father, the baby she miscarried last year, even her surname. Halfway through, she compared herself to the Little Mermaid, who falls in love with a prince and loses her voice.
love to fight are enjoying this country right now. nobody can be. are we hopelessly divided or is this a moment in time. it s a trial separation. see if we re happier alone. i m saying we have brunch with the balkans and say how are you guys doing? i have less money, but i m happier, i can be myself for a change. do people in some of these blue states truly have anything in common? in the red and blue states? in cambridge and plano. these are different societies. which one should secede? both. everyone break up. you re state by state for now. the ncaa has divisions, even
we need a trial separation so people can appreciate each other, maybe. because it s no one s going to change their opinions. no one and maybe no one should. that s what the country is about. the days of compromise have apparently ended for everyone. one of the things i like, you go you don t give the founding fathers any slack. why is that? that almost is taboo? well, because they left a lot of things on that you know what i mean, they left a lot of things undone. they set up this great premise, but they should have forced, they should have been in that the bill of rights, i say the bill of rights was our mistake. the constitution is great, the bill of rights is where we screwed up. freedom of speech just became people talking. it was never supposed to go online. drunks at a wedding is a
enjoy living in this country. are we hopelessly divided or is this a moment in time? like a trial separation, like a divorce. you separate, break it up and see if we re happier alone. you re actually recommending we break up? i m saying we have brunch with the balkans and go, how are you guys doing these days? i have less money but i m happier, i have more freedom. i don t know. it gets to the issue do people in some of these blue states truly have anything in common with in the red and blue states? yeah. like you said, in cambridge and plano. cambridge, massachusetts, plano, texas, these are different societies. do you know what i mean? which one sudden secede. both. everybody should secede? i m saying break up. you re just state by state from now. you could do sections, i guess, like the ncaa has divisions, but even those divisions don t really work. you are in the big east but you are in the midwest. big east doesn t exist anymore. once they break up
what i want to do first, it really is so important that we lay out the timeline here. so brian, i hand it over to you for that because that sets up a fascinating look at how we got to today. i ll take it way back. jeff and makenzie had been married for years. they enter into a trial separation. the national enquirer was hot on their tail. they found out that bezos had a relationship with sanchez were he had been dating her, seeing her quietly, secretly. enquirer was about to publish a story exposing the relationship last month. that s when bezos came out and said i m getting a divorced. they had been link and photographed together. this was a tabloid story on the front of the enquirer. but then hind the scenes he said how did they find out? who leaked? how did they get a hold of these photos and text messages? so bezos s security chief concludes it was politically motivated that the started to come out in the daily beast last