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KQueen Elizabeth II is known to be reluctant to comment on family feuds, but on Tuesday she made an exception. In an official statement, that night he tried to put out the fire that his grandson Harry and his wife Meghan had started with an interview Sunday night. The whole family is “sad” to hear how “difficult” the last few years have been for the couple, he says. The issues the Duke and Duchess of Sussex raised in their interview – “especially race” – are “troubling.”
This is followed by the beautiful phrase: “Even if some memories differ, the family takes them very seriously and treats them in private.” The statement ends with the assurance that Harry, Meghan and their son Archie “will always be beloved members of the family.” .
That morning, British newspapers said the royal family was allowing the lawsuits and attacks to bounce back and surround themselves with a “wall of silence.” But it was mostly the implicit accusation of racism that ultimately led the court advisers to take the lead.
Meghan had said in an interview with an American television station that “someone in the family” had argued with Harry in conversations with Harry before Archie’s birth, “how dark” the child’s skin color might be. By announcing that it would broach the issue in family circles, the royal family also responded to demands (including from the Labor Party) to investigate the allegation in the form of an official investigation.
The sympathy expressed in the statement for the couple’s “difficult years” was likely related to Meghan’s statement that she had suicidal thoughts during her time at Kensington Palace in London. The love insurance in the last sentence, in turn, which ended a previous communication in the same wording, is also understood as a response to Harry’s accusations against his father, Crown Prince Charles. He felt abandoned by his father, Harry had said, and had mentioned that Charles no longer answered the phone when he called. In London on Tuesday night, Buckingham Palace was not expected to make any further comment on the matter.
