The Duke of Sussex on Sunday night denied calling the Royal Family racist but said they were guilty of ‘unconscious bias’ while discussing Meghan’s controversial claim to Oprah that an unnamed royal had expressed ‘concern’ about what colour skin their son Archie might have as a bi-racial child.
In an incendiary interview to plug his new memoir , Harry confirmed to ITV journalist and old friend Tom Bradby that a remark had been made but refused to name the individual concerned, prompting a worldwide guessing game and leading his estranged brother, Prince William, to publicly remark they were ‘very much not a racist family’.
Elsewhere, ex-BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond told ITV’s Lorraine: ‘So much of what he said seemed conflicted and contradictory… he allowed his family to be hung out to dry on an accusation of racism which Harry says now he never said and wasn’t true.
That in my view is almost unforgivable.’ And ITV News’s Royal Editor Chris Ship said on Good Morning Britain: ‘Harry is right to say [they] didn’t use the word ”racist” at any point… [but] Harry didn’t correct the narrative when this whole racism row then started, and not correcting the narrative is something he accused the Royal Family of not doing, when he criticised Jeremy Clarkson and other things as well.’
Prince brands Queen Consort ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’
The Duke of Sussex said the Queen Consort was content with bodies being ‘left in the street’ – including his – as she tried to rehabilitate her image because of her long affair with King Charles while he was married to Princess Diana.
Harry, in an interview with US show CBS’s 60 Minutes, launched into his fiercest criticism yet of his father’s second wife, which Charles was said to have considered a ‘red line’ in their relationship in a warning to his son.
The duke wrote in his memoir Spare that Camilla ‘sacrificed me on her personal PR altar’.
He also revealed that he and William asked Charles not to marry her, and accused her of scheming to wed the now King and take the Crown.
Harry told interviewer Anderson Cooper: ‘She was the villain, she was a third person in the marriage, she needed to rehabilitate her image’.
But hours earlier he told ITV’s Tom Bradby that he was not ‘scathing’ towards Camilla in his book, in an interview that viewers said contained several contradictions with past comments and his new book, including previous allegations that the Royal Family is racist.
There was also disbelief when Harry told Mr Bradby that whatever he says to William in future will remain ‘private’, despite using his memoirs, TV interviews, a Netflix documentary as well as Oprah to spill the beans on what his family said to him and Meghan behind closed doors.
