London (UK)-CBS has informed that Oprah Winfrey’s two-hour bombshell television interview with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan has been watched by around 17.1 million Americans. The interview, in which Harry and Meghan accused the royal family of racism and of failing to protect them from negative media coverage, drew the biggest audience for any entertainment special since the Oscars telecast in February 2020, which was watched by 23.6 million viewers.
The hashtag #HarryandMeghanonOprah was among the top five trending items worldwide on Twitter during and after the broadcast, while #Abolishthemonarchy was also buzzing, with 11,200 tweets.
It was also the most-watched non-Super Bowl event on a Sunday in prime time in over a year, CBS said. The National Football League’s Super Bowl regularly draws an audience of around 100 million and is the highest-rated TV event in the United States.
The interview will be broadcast in Britain on Monday night. Buckingham Palace has yet to comment on their remarks.
The couple’s interview covered not just their tensions with the royal family but also Harry’s disgust at the conduct of the British press, particularly the tabloids. Apart from the Financial Times, the revelations were also featured in also every British newspaper website.