Queen Elizabeth II responds to Harry and Meghan over racism charges
Two days after the shock interview given by Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle on American television, Queen Elizabeth II reacted to accusations of racism which she considers "worrying". She said in a statement that they will be "taken very seriously and treated by the family in private".
The accusations of racism made by Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are "worrying" and will be taken "very seriously", Buckingham Palace said in its first statement on Tuesday after the couple's resounding interview. The couple had faced star presenter Oprah Winfrey on Sunday night on American television. They reported on conversations within the royal family about what skin color their 22-month-old son Archie would have before he was born.
"The issues raised, especially those related to race, are of concern. Although some memories may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be treated by the family in private," Queen Elizabeth II added in a statement. On the identity of the person who asked this question, the couple made it clear that it was neither Queen Elizabeth II, 94, nor her husband Prince Philip, 99, who is currently hospitalized.
The queen says she is "saddened" by the couple's difficulties
The royal family is also said to be "saddened" to learn the extent of the difficulties encountered by the couple in recent years. "The whole family is saddened to learn how difficult the past few years have been for Harry and Meghan," the palace said, stressing that the couple and their son Archie "will always be much loved family members."
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's explosive confessions to Oprah Winfrey, broadcast on Sunday, plunged the monarchy into a new crisis reminiscent of the days of Lady Diana, Harry's mother, in the 1990s, who revealed in public her marital troubles then died in a car accident, chased by the paparazzi in Paris.
The aura of the broken monarchy?
Established for a year in California, the former Métis American actress Meghan Markle, 39, and Prince Harry, 36 and sixth in the order of succession from the crown, have questioned untenable media pressure, racism British media and the royal family's misunderstanding of their situation to explain their withdrawal from the monarchy.
Some in the government fear that these accusations will permanently undermine the aura of the monarchy, in a country recently brought to question its colonial past in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, and question in the wake the organization of the Commonwealth, dear to the Queen.
