The shocking revelations made by Harry and Meghan during their Oprah Winfrey interview the following year presented a further challenge for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles.
The candid discussion laid bare the couple’s grievances and allegations about their experiences within the working royal family, sparking a public and media frenzy.
“I don’t think anything could really trump the sort of sense of shock felt by the Oprah Winfrey interview — that was huge,”
Hardman saysAs a teenager, I didn’t understand that saying you’re a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities,” she told the newspaper.
“What it seemed to me, the way it was phrased in culture, society, was that you hate men. And now, I think a lot of girls have had a feminist awakening because they understand what the word means.
“For so long it’s been made to seem like something where you’d picket against the opposite sex, whereas it’s not about that at all.
Becoming friends with Lena—without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for—has made me realize that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so.
