Queen Elizabeth II is saddened by the challenges faced by her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, and takes their allegations of racism in the royal family seriously, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.
“The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan. The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning,” the palace said in a statement released on the queen’s behalf.
“While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately. Harry, Meghan, and Archie will always be much-loved family members.”
Recall that British royals Harry and Meghan recently sat down for an explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey, which has pushed Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to hold crisis talks Tuesday after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex lifted the lid on life inside Buckingham Palace, in an interview that reverberated around the world, local media reported.
With revelations of Meghan's suicidal thoughts, the royal family's racist attitude during her pregnancy and an heir-to-the-throne trapped by tradition, the sit-down with Oprah Winfrey by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was the most startling since Harry's late mother Princess Diana's own bombshell revelations in 1995.
Harry described feeling "really let down" by his father Prince Charles, who had stopped taking his phone calls for a time. Both Charles, the queen's heir, and Harry's elder brother William were "trapped" by the conventions of the monarchy, he said.
"They don't get to leave. And I have huge compassion for that," Harry said in the interview broadcast on CBS Sunday night, explaining the couple's dramatic exit from royal life last year.
Meghan, a biracial former actress, described herself as "naively" unprepared for life in the royal family. She said she was denied help for a mental health crisis and said there was even official concern about "how dark" Archie's skin would be, a topic of conversation Harry revealed to Meghan ahead of his birth on May 6, 2019.
"I... just didn't want to be alive anymore," she told Winfrey.
The couple both declined to name the royal involved but Winfrey said Monday that Harry had told her the queen, who is 94 years old, and her 99-year-old husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, were not part of the conversations.
The revelations have triggered a storm of reaction on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly the explosive claims about racism.
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