Prince Harry admitted to presumably being “bigoted” earlier than his relationship with Meghan Markle started.
In a brand new clip of his forthcoming interview on “60 Minutes,” the Duke of Sussex acknowledged his personal faults whereas speaking about how the British press mistreated his mixed-race spouse.
“What Meghan needed to undergo was related, in some half, to what Kate [Middleton] and what [Queen] Camilla went via — very totally different circumstances,” he instructed host Anderson Cooper.
“However then you definately add within the race factor, which was what the British press jumped on right away,” Harry, 38, continued. “I went into this extremely naive. I had no concept the British press was so bigoted. Hell, I used to be most likely bigoted earlier than the connection with Meghan.”
When Cooper requested Harry if he thought he was bigoted, he replied, “I don’t know. Put it this manner, I didn’t see what I now see.”
Harry has at all times been vocal about his disdain for the best way the British media has handled the “Fits” alum since their relationship grew to become public.
In 2021, Harry and Markle, 41, stated Britain’s “poisonous” media aided of their determination to depart the royal household.
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“Everyone knows what the British press might be like and it was destroying my psychological well being,” he stated within the interview on “The Late Late Present With James Corden” on the time.
“That is poisonous,” he added, alleging that the media had created a “actually troublesome” setting for himself and his spouse.
“So, I did what any husband and what any father would do — I must get my household out of right here,” he stated.
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And within the couple’s new Netflix six-episode sequence, “Harry & Meghan,” which was launched final month, the mother and father of two showcased how the British media used Markle’s race to drive their tales.
Harry stated that a few of the royal household didn’t acknowledge the position that Markle’s race performed within the media protection she was given in comparison with different members of the brood.
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“So far as quite a lot of the household had been involved, all the things she was being put via, that they had been put via as properly. So it was nearly like a ceremony of passage,” he stated on the docuseries.
“A number of the family members had been like, ‘Proper my spouse has been put via that, so why ought to your girlfriend be handled any otherwise? Why must you get particular remedy? Why ought to she be totally different?’” Harry recalled. “And I stated, ‘The distinction right here is the race factor.’”
Prince Harry’s full interview on “60 Minutes” airs Sunday, January 8 at 7:30 p.m. EST on CBS.
