Following the recent personal interview of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex; Prince Harry and Megan Markle; Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday responded to the racism claims from the duo voicing deep concern and sympathizing with their troubles with royal life.
She said; “The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan,” she said in a statement. The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning. 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.”
The Buckingham Palace has recently come under high pressure to respond to the claims made in an Oprah Winfrey interview first broadcast on Sunday the 7th of March, which triggered a crisis unseen since the anguished days of Harry’s late mother, Diana, in the 1990s. It set off a whirl of speculation about the identity of the senior royal who asked how dark their child’s skin would be before he was born.
Meghan, whose mother is black and father is white, also spoke about how she had suicidal thoughts, but failed to receive any support during her time in the royal family.
Oprah was left open-mouthed by the racism claim, which reportedly left the palace in turmoil and scrambling how best to address it.
Prince Charles, Harry’s father and the heir to the throne, earlier ignored a question about what he made of the interview, as he made his first public appearance since the row erupted.
A YouGov poll of 4,656 people after the interview aired on British television on Monday indicated almost a third (32 percent) felt the couple was unfairly treated, the same proportion as those who thought the opposite.
But older people were more likely to side with the royal family, the poll suggested.
– ‘Blowing up his family‘ –
Harry and Meghan’s claims have been likened to a bomb being dropped on Britain’s most famous family and one of the country’s most revered institutions.
Attempts have been made to draw in Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has himself been accused of racism during his time as a newspaper columnist.
