Harry claims Meghan and Kate 'never got on' and that wife was 'stereotyped as biracial American actress'
9 January 2023, 00:28 | Updated: 9 January 2023, 05:07
Prince Harry accused his brother and wife of stereotyping Meghan Markle as a "biracial American actress" from the moment they met.
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The Duke of Sussex made the fiery claim during tonight's primetime ITV interview with Tom Bradby.
In an apparent reference to Edward VIII's wife Wallis Simpson, Harry said: “There was a lot of stereotyping that was happening - that I was guilty of as well - at the beginning."
“American actress, right? And that was playing out in the British press in the media at the time as well.
"Some of the things that my brother and sister-in-law - some of the way that they were acting or behaving - definitely felt to me as though, unfortunately, that stereotyping was causing a bit of a barrier to them really sort of, you know, introducing or welcoming her in.”
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Bradby replied: “But the impression is that they, just from the get-go, it’s just they don’t get on. Fair?”
Harry said: “Yeah, fair", adding that any idea the two couples could be a Fab Four was little more than a media construct.
During the sensational interview Prince Harry also appeared to deny stoking racial controversy in last year's Oprah interview, in which Meghan Markle described a "senior royal" expressing anxiety about what colour Archie's skin would be.
Harry said that "concern about Archie's skin colour" was rather about "unconscious bias".
Harry also claimed Lady Hussey's face-to-face apology to a charity boss she pressed on where she was "really" from was a good example of reconciliation, and that the Sussexes in fact "love" Lady Hussey.
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