When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex sat down with Oprah Winfrey for a “tell-all” interview in March last year, it marked their first major interview since they stepped down as senior members of the royal family at the start of 2020.
During the much-anticipated interview, which aired in the US on 7 March and in the UK a day later, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spoke of racism they had faced while working as royals, their relationships with other members of the royal family and how being a royal had affected their mental health.
The interview was one of the biggest cultural talking points of last year, and it reached a global audience of 50 million people, including 12 million through ITV in the UK and 17 million through CBS in the US.
However, some of the claims the Duke and Duchess made remain unresolved, including who the “racist royal” is and what caused the rift between Harry and Prince William.
Who is the ‘racist royal”?
One of the more shocking moments from the interview came when Meghan said there were “several conversations” between herself, Harry and members within the royal family about “how dark” their baby could be before Archie was born.
“In those months when I was pregnant [there were] concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he was born,” Meghan said in the interview.
Harry added: “That conversation, I am never going to share. At the time it was awkward, I was a bit shocked.”
Following the interview, Prince…
