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LONDON (REUTERS) – Prince William said on Thursday (March 11) that British royalty were not racist after Meghan Markle, the wife of his younger brother Prince Harry, said an anonymous family member had asked what so dark could her son Archie’s skin be. .
Meghan, 39, made the accusation during an explosive revealing interview she and Prince Harry, 36, gave to Oprah Winfrey that aired on Sunday, plunging the British monarchy into its greatest crisis since the death of Princess Diana, William in 1997. and Harry’s mother.
On a visit to a school in East London, Prince William said he had not spoken to his brother since the interview aired just over three days ago.
“I haven’t talked to him yet, but I will,” said 38-year-old Prince William.
When asked by a journalist if the royal family was racist, he said: “We are not a racist family.”
On the two-hour show, nearly three years after their star-studded wedding at Windsor Castle, Meghan said that royalty had ignored her pleas for help while she felt suicidal, while Prince Harry said her father, heir to the throne, Prince Charles, had. disappointed and trapped.
On Tuesday, Buckingham Palace released a statement on behalf of the 94-year-old Queen Elizabeth, the princes’ grandmother, in which it said the family was saddened by how defiant the couple had encountered in recent years.
But it was the couple’s accusation that one of the royals had made a racist comment that has dominated the coverage and has the potential to cause lasting damage to the 1,000-year-old monarchy.
Who said it?
Meghan, whose mother is black and her father is white, said that while she was pregnant with Archie there were “concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he is born.”
Neither she nor Harry said who had made the comment, though Winfrey later clarified that Harry had said it was not the Queen or her 99-year-old husband, Philip, who has been in the hospital for three weeks as the crisis unfolds.
“That conversation, I’m never going to share it,” Prince Harry said during the interview. “But at the time, it was awkward. I was a bit surprised.”
In the Queen’s statement, the palace said that racial issues were worrisome and would be treated very seriously, but promptly stated that “some memories may vary.”
The Palace has said that this was a family matter that should be dealt with privately.
During the interview, Prince Harry also exposed how distant he had become from the other members of his family, saying that his father had stopped taking his calls at one point and that there was “space” in his relationship with the prince. William.
“There will be a lot of talk about that … like I said before, you know, I love William to pieces, he’s my brother, we’ve been through hell together and we have a shared experience,” she said. “But we are on different paths.”
The interview, watched by 12.4 million viewers in Britain and 17.1 million in the United States, has caused divisions among British audiences.
Some believe it showed how old-fashioned and intolerant the institution was, while others denounced it as a selfish assault that neither Queen Elizabeth nor her family deserved.
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