LONDON (UK) – Recounting the tragic experiences she had with the royal family, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on CBS, Duchess of Sussex Meghan said that her son Archie, now aged one, had been denied the title of prince because there were concerns within the royal family “about how dark his skin might be when he’s born”. “That was relayed to me from Harry, those were conversations that family had with him,” she added.
The 39-year-old, whose mother is Black and father is white, said she had been naïve before she married into royalty in 2018, but that she ended up having suicidal thoughts and considering self harm after pleading for help but getting none.
Meghan declined to say who had aired such concerns, as did Harry, who said his family had cut them off financially and that his father Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, had let him down and refused to take his calls at one point.
Nearly three years since her star-studded wedding in Windsor Castle, Meghan described some unidentified members of the royal household as brutal, mendacious and guilty of racist remarks.
She also accused Kate, the wife of her husband’s elder brother Prince William, of making her cry before her wedding. While the family came in for open criticism, neither Harry nor Meghan attacked Queen Elizabeth directly. Still, Meghan said she had been silenced by “the Firm” – which Elizabeth heads – and that her pleas for help while in distress at racist reporting and her predicament had fallen on deaf ears.
“I just didn’t want to be alive any more. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. And I remember how he (Harry) just cradled me,” Meghan said, wiping away tears.
Asked what his mother would say about events, he said: “I think she would feel very angry with how this has panned out and very sad.” He felt “really let down” by his father, and added: “My family literally cut me off financially.”
