LONDON: The British royal family has never been short of storylines that are easy and available fodder for drama makers, providing delicious content for platforms such as Netflix.
Just when you think you'd never see the end of the saga of Prince Andrew being haunted by his friendship with the late American convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Edward Epstein, there were already sneak previews of what the marriage of the sixth in line to the throne to an American actress had to offer.
Today, we will be treated to a bombshell of a revelation of what it was like to be married into the British royal family, given by someone who had been there and left exclaiming, "It's really liberating", to be able to talk about it to Oprah Winfrey, no less.
The much anticipated two-hour interview on CBS, the American network, with the celebrity talk show host and a close friend of Meghan Markle will prove to be even better than Prince Andrew's "car crash interview" on BBC Newsnight last year, where he vehemently denied having sex with a then 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre.
A sucker for celebrated love stories, I made my way to Windsor a day before the royal wedding, just like the time I stood outside St Paul's Cathedral watching the preparation for the fairytale wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana in the summer of 1981.
So, on May 18, 2018, I walked around the castle where the late Princess Diana's youngest son was going to take his vows and marry Meghan Markle, soaking in the celebratory mood and atmosphere. Like many other people, I had a soft spot for Harry — my heart broke seeing the 12-year-old ginger haired boy walking behind his mother's hearse.
At the time of the union of Harry and Meghan, it would seem that the British media couldn't get enough of the woman they dubbed Markle the Sparkle, even going to the extent of declaring the wedding as a magically modern royal wedding.
But soon enough, the very same headline makers who drooled over them slowly changed their tune. It wasn't helped by the fact that the bride was American and could hold her own.
Stories began emerging about Meghan and her choice of tiara, about Harry defending her saying "What Meghan wants, Meghan gets", and sadly, too, about the souring relationship between Harry and his brother, William.
That Meghan has baggage with her estranged father and siblings back home doesn't help too.
Soon, the couple, taking their first born, Archie, packed up and left the country, declaring a war on the British media whose coverage, they alleged, had affected their mental health.
They are making America their home with neighbours such as Winfrey. They have now been stripped off official royal duties.
It would seem that Meghan has ways of not endearing herself to the British public, like announcing her pregnancy during Princess Eugenie's wedding and then announcing her second pregnancy when Princess Eugenie gave birth to her first.
The timing of her headline-grabbing announcements, it would seem, was never perfect.
So is the case with the timing of the broadcast by ITV today. It is going ahead, according to Meghan's confidantes, in spite of calls for the couple to delay it out of respect for Prince Philip, who is recovering from a heart surgery.
Winfrey had been pursuing Meghan for an exclusive even before her wedding but was told, "it was not the right time".
Now that the interview is in the can, friends of the former Suits actress claimed the royal family is using Prince Philip's health as yet another excuse to keep her "muzzled".
I have already booked my place in front of the television to watch the much talked about interview.