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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have revealed that more than one member of the royal family had expressed concerns about their son’s skin color before he was born, and claimed the family were “unfriendly” when they expressed their concerns about such comments.
These latest allegations by Harry and Meghan against Harry’s family come from the couple’s journalist friend Omid Scobie, who was speaking to the Foreign Press Association in London on Friday, the Daily Mail reported, citing testimony from others. journalists present.
The new claims are in line with what the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said in their explosive March 7 interview with Oprah Winfrey, when they alleged that an anonymous family member questioned the color of the Archie skin because Meghan is mixed race.
“There was a conversation that touched them immensely, when it came to a member of the Royal Family sharing concerns about Archie’s skin color,” said Scobi, who wrote “Finding Freedom “, the sympathetic book on the departure of Harry and Meghan. royal life and establish a new home in the home state of the former California television actress.
“For Harry I can see how that is a conversation, for Meghan who would have been involved in the follow-up conversations I can see – because there were other people familiar with this conversation within the family and within the institution, who have also spoken about it, some with less sympathy, ”said Scobie, who is sometimes ridiculed by other reporters for appearing to act as the couple’s spokesperson.
“So then you’re in a position where you start to feel, well, it’s not just that person, it’s other people too and it becomes a much bigger issue,” Scobie continued.
Scobie said he had not been able to personally confirm the identity of the so-called royal racist – or the racists, but he agreed that the identity could be of public interest, especially if that person is a future “head of state” – suggesting either Prince Charles or Prince William.
It is already known – via what Harry told Winfrey after the interview – that the royal racist is not Queen Elizabeth or her late husband Prince Philip.
“At the time, the biggest conversation was’ was this coming from a senior member of the royal family, a future head of state? “” said Scobie. “If that individual is a Head of State, then we as the public have a right to know because, of course, he is someone who is our Head of State, the Head of the Commonwealth. And if they have a race issue, we should know.
Harry and Meghan have been accused of driving the wedge between them and the royal family by visiting Oprah Winfrey to voice their complaints. During the two-hour CBS interview, they also said the royal establishment did not defend Meghan from vicious tabloid media coverage and was woefully indifferent to the suicidal desperation she felt while she was pregnant with Archie and living in UK.
It was the allegations of racism that struck a chord and prompted Harry’s eldest son William to break the family’s usual policy of never dealing directly with negative relationships. “We’re really not a racist family,” the second heir to the throne said at an event days after Winfrey’s interview.
The Queen also briefly addressed the racism allegations in a statement, saying these issues were taken “very seriously” and would be addressed privately within the family. In response to Harry and Meghan’s other claims, the Queen only said: “Some memories may vary”.
Scobie hit back at the Queen’s statement that “memories may vary”, saying she “cleverly” sidesteps the claim, failing to speak out against racism “in any way.”
“Even when William said ‘We are not a racist family’ they did not condemn racism in any form,” said Scobie. “We never see the royal family doing that. So, of course, he then continues this conversation about how anti-racism is the royal family, how much does the royal institution have with its history, and maybe any kind of subconscious bias that may exist at the within the establishment or the family. None of these things ever seem to be addressed.
Scobie’s comments are likely to fuel a new controversy involving Harry and Meghan, and their differences with the Royal Family, just as Harry is due to be in the UK on July 1. He is expected to join William at an event to unveil a statute at Kensington Palace, dedicated to their late mother, Princess Diana.
Harry and Meghan also apparently annoyed the Queen after the June 4 birth of their second child, a daughter. They named the baby girl Lilibet Diana – the first name, they said, in honor of the Queen and her childhood nickname.
They and their friends also made statements to friendly American media, suggesting they had received permission from the Queen to use Lilibet, which would have very intimate family overtones to her, as her father, George VI, called Queen Lilibet as a child, and Philip was the last person to use the name in recent years.
While the Queen said she was delighted with Lilibet’s birth, she let it be known, through an anonymous statement made to the BBC by her royal press officers, that Harry and Meghan had told her that they used the name; they did not ask for his permission.
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