HARRY HITS OUT
Harry says ‘stereotype’ of Meghan as a ‘divorced biracial American’ stopped Kate & William welcoming her into family
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PRINCE Harry tonight claimed Kate and William stereotyped Meghan as a "divorced biracial American actress".
The Duke of Sussex, 38, sensationally claimed the Prince and Princess of Wales failed to welcome his wife into the family.
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He said it was hard for him as he'd always "hoped" the four of them would get on.
The 38-year-old opened up about the Fab Four's fragile relationship in his ITV interview with journalist Tom Bradby.
Speaking to Bradby ahead of the release of his bombshell memoir Spare, Harry discussed the moment he introduced Meghan to his brother and sister-in-law.
Harry said on top of lots of different reasons, he thought William and Kate stereotyped Meghan as an “American actress”, which stopped them from giving her a chance.
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The journalist asked: “The impression is that – that they just – there's almost from the get-go it's just they don’t get on. Fair?”
To which Harry replies: “Yeah, fair.”
Bradby then quizzes the Prince on why, and he explains: “Lots of – lots of different reasons.
“I had put a lot of hope in the idea that, you know, it’d be William and Kate and me and whoever.
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“I thought the – you know, the four of us would, you know, bring me and William closer together, we could go out and do work together.
“I don’t think they were ever expecting me to get – or to become – to get into a relationship with – with someone like Meghan who had, you know, a very successful career.
“There was a lot of stereotyping that was happening, that I was guilty of as well, at the beginning.”
Harry explained the stereotype as “American actress”, and went on to say: “Some of the things that my brother and sister-in-law – some of the way that they were acting or behaving definitely felt to me as though unfortunately that stereotyping was causing a bit of a barrier to them really sort of, you know, introducing or welcoming her in.”
Bradby then asked the Prince what he means specifically and he replied: “Well, American actress, divorced, biracial, there's – there's all different parts to that.”
Harry also explained: “The idea of the four of us being together was always a hope for me.
“Before it was Meghan. Whoever it was gonna be. I always hoped that the four of us would get on.
"But, very quickly it became Meghan versus Kate. And that, when it plays out so publicly, you can't hide from that. Right?
It comes as:
- Harry sensationally says he and Meghan never accused royals of being racist
- The duke blasted Camilla as a 'dangerous villain' and called her the 'other woman'
- Prince Harry said Charles wasn't equipped to be a single dad
- Harry revealed he was 'happy' for the Queen as she lay on her deathbed as it meant she'd be reunited with Philip
- The duke said there was never a 'Fab Four' with him, Meghan, Kate and William - as they didn't get on 'from the get-go'
“It creates this competition, and if you're the new kids on the block and you come in and you're stealing the limelight, not a limelight that you've asked to be put in or have.”
The Duke also revealed in the interview how hard it would have been for his dad King Charles to tell him his mum had died.
Harry then said he “never wants to be in that position”.
The 38-year-old told how his dad sat at the end of his bed and told him Princess Diana had been involved in a crash.
'DARLING BOY'
Speaking to Bradby, the dad-of-two recalls: “You know, thinking back to when I was 12 years old, sitting in that sunken bed at Balmoral Castle, I went, I took myself back to that moment and tried to remember as much as possible.
“You know, my father coming in, in his dressing gown and sharing that news with me, only now as part of writing the book, that I really think about how many hours he'd been awake.
“And the compassion that I have for him, as a parent having to sit with that for many, many hours, ringing up friends of his, trying to work out, how the hell do I break this to my two sons?”
Harry recalled his 12-year-old self then tried to convince himself his mother was OK: “I thought again, ‘injured but she’s okay, she’s been taken to hospital, they’ll fix her head, and we’ll go and see her. Today, tonight at the latest’.”
But his father then tragically told him: “They tried, darling boy. I’m afraid she didn’t make it.”
The Duke said the fear of something happening to him or Meghan, and leaving their children without parents, pushed the pair to move to America.
He continued: “I never want to be in that position, part of the reason why we are here now, I never ever want to be in that position.
“I don't want history to repeat itself. I do not want to be a single dad.
"And I certainly don't want my children to have a life without a mother or a father.”
Harry: The Interview hit screens this evening and has given even more of an insight into the Duke's life.
In the 90-minute show, Harry claimed King Charles was never made to be a single dad.
'50,000 BOUQUETS OF FLOWERS'
The Duke of Sussex also hit back at claims that he launched a scathing attack on Queen Consort Camilla when they were introduced.
He also revealed that he said he only cried once after his mother died - and it was at her burial.
He said that even as he met crowds of Brits mourning Princess Di, while walking past the 50,000 floral tributes laid for her, he showed no emotion.
During the video, Harry recalled the days immediately after Princess Di's death in 1997, when he was just 12 years old.
The Prince said: "Everyone knows where they were and what they were doing the night my mother died.
"I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace.
"There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother, and there we were shaking people's hands, smiling.
"I've seen the videos, right, I looked back over it all."
He continued: "And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn't understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.
"Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment."
In the interview, Prince Harry also declared there was never a "Fab Four" and said the warring couples failed to get on from the get-go.
He also said that he no longer recognises his family, but conceded they probably felt the same way about him.
Harry's sit-down interview has tonight been broadcast on ITV1 and ITVX.
Harry later carried out an interview in the US with news anchor Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
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In it, he called Queen Camilla “dangerous” and he accused her of showing an “open willingness” to trade information with the press as she campaigned to marry Charles.
He also relived his final moments with his grandmother the Queen during the chat.
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