A message from the queen. Meghan Markle revealed that Beyoncé sent her a
supportive message after her and Prince Harry’s March 2021 tell-all
interview.
“Beyoncé just texted,” the Duchess of Sussex, 41,
recalled in throwback footage from the sixth episode of Harry & Meghan
filmed the day after the Q&A aired on CBS. The Duke of Sussex, 38,
jokingly gasped, adding: “Shut up. Just checking in. Just casual.”
The Bench author then read the 41-year-old pop star’s message to her
husband. “I still can’t believe she knows who I am,” Meghan said in the
episode, which premiered on Thursday, December 15. “She said she wants me to
feel safe and protected. She admires and respects my bravery and
vulnerability and thinks I was selected to break generational curses that
need to be healed.”
While the “Break My Soul” songstress offered her support, the
couple hinted that Harry’s brother, Prince William, was less pleased with
the interview.
“What am I looking at?” Meghan asked her husband
as he showed her something on his phone while she was talking to Tyler
Perry. “Wow. … H just got a text from his brother.”
The Invictus
Games founder said, “I wish I knew what to do.” The Suits alum then hugged
him and suggested they “take a breather” and “get some air” before making
any decisions.
During the now-famous interview, the twosome
discussed the reasons for their January 2020 decision to step down from the
royal family, with Harry pointing to racism as one of the major reasons they
chose to leave. “It was a large part of it,” the former military pilot told
CBS.
Perry, for his part, thought they could have been even more
candid about what happened behind closed doors. “When I watched it, I
thought, ‘There’s so much more she could have said,'” the director, 53,
explained in the docuseries. “But because she’s such a classy, elegant
woman, she didn’t.”
After the tell-all aired, the Prince of Wales, 40, publicly
denied his brother’s claims, telling reporters, “We’re very much not a
racist family.”
In part two of the Netflix series, Harry revealed
that his exit from the royal family put a major strain on his relationship
with his older brother, claiming that William screamed and shouted at him
during a January 2020 meeting about the situation, which King Charles III
and Queen Elizabeth II also attended.
“I mean, the saddest part
of it was this wedge created between myself and my brother, so that he’s now
on the institution’s side,” Harry explained. “Part of that, I get. I
understand, right? That’s his inheritance. So, to some extent it’s already
ingrained in him that part of his responsibility is the survivability and
the continuation of this institution.”
