Oprah reveals Harry’s panicked call: ‘Problem’

The TV queen has lifted the lid on the very unusual “problem” the prince and his wife were confronted with recently.

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Oprah Winfrey has lifted the lid on the panicked call she recently received from Prince Harry while he was grappling with an unusual “problem”.

Speaking on Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast, the TV queen was asked about potentially being gifted baby chickens, to which she joked that she’d immediately take them over to her neighbours, “the Sussexes’”.

In a cheeky nod to Meghan’s pointed correction of Mindy Kaling, who called her “Meghan Markle” on her Netflix series and was told it was actually “Meghan Sussex now”, Winfrey deliberately mispronounced the surname, adding extra “xessesses" at the end.

Oprah Winfrey shared a hilarious story about Harry and Meghan.

The couple live near her in Montecito. Picture: Instagram

The 71-year-old went on to explain how she’d recently received an emergency call from the Duke of Sussex, whose home with Meghan and their two kids, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, is just around the corner from her own in Montecito.

“I get a call from Harry, Prince Harry, on Easter Saturday, and he says, ‘Sorry to bother you, O, but we have a duck problem here’,” she said, imitating the prince’s British accent.

“A duck had come into their yard and laid their eggs and had these chicks.

“And he said, ‘Our pond is a stream, we don’t have a pond, so can we bring the ducks over to your pond?’”

Winfrey recalled that she’d asked him to “wait” until her best friend Gayle King’s grandchildren arrived, as they were due to visit a short time later.

The Hollywood queen attended the royal wedding in 2018. Picture: Ian West/PA Wire

“I said, ‘Wait until I can get the kids to come down to the pond so they can see you put the ducks in the pond’. And he goes, ‘No, we’re coming right away, we’re coming over!’”

However, she added, the scene turned chaotic when the “mama duck” took off, leaving Harry, Meghan and herself to chase her.

“As he opens the door, the mama duck flies out. And he’s got all the baby ducks in a box,” she told Ripa.

“We’re chasing the mama duck who is in the front yard and has flown to the other side. “We’ve got her ducks. Harry’s running after, Meghan gets out, she’s running after, chasing the mum and trying to get her to come back to her ducks.’

“And for like half an hour, we’re running around with the ducks in a box. We have video. It’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.”

Meghan shared this picture over the Easter weekend. Picture: Instagram

Over Easter, Meghan had shared a clip of the ducks on her Instagram page, showing herself on a driveway as they made their way across the path in front of her.

“Wishing you a Happy Easter full of love … and surprises!” she captioned it.

Meanwhile, Winfrey has been a friend of the Sussexes’ for years, even attending their 2018 wedding at Windsor Castle.

She famously conducted their first post-royal interview, which featured explosive details about their time working within the monarchy.

Originally published as Oprah reveals Harry’s panicked call: ‘Problem’