Well in deference to Jeri and Maggie, I've just watched the whole thing end to end. As I said, and I can also confirm this to Allan, all the shocking and controversial bits have been abundantly aired in snippets on our screens. It was quite instructive to watch Oprah teasing things out of the couple in a gentle, friendly yet quite penetrating way. There was more than a hint of leading questioning at times but that served to keep them going, and Meghan stood up to the interrogation very well. A thread running through the whole thing was that we were hearing one side only. However, it wasn't easy to pick out any real inconsistencies (waffle, especially from Harry, was a different matter).

The way they characterised the diseased relationship between the institution and the tabloid press was fairly shocking and pretty believable. Another first impression was Harry really ought to have called Meghan by her name, not "my wife," "she" and "her", often with a wave of the hand in her direction, which he did nearly all the time.

So I can talk about it now. I feel like I've been punishing myself this evening. One thing I can say is that nothing I've heard has helped convince me that our royal family is anything other than a rigid and unpleasant throwback that really ought to have had its day. Won't happen, of course.