Buckingham Palace broke its silence on Tuesday evening over Harry and Meghan’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The UK Palace issued a statement on Tuesday, saying the family was saddened to learn of the challenges Harry and Meghan had faced in the past few years and that they would address the issues privately.
In a statement on behalf of the Queen, the palace said that that allegations of racism made by the Sussexes were concerning and being “taken very seriously.”
“The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan,” the statement reads.
In a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan, who is African American, said her husband Prince Harry revealed his family’s concerns over Archie’s skin tone, as well as the security he would be entitled to, ahead of his birth on May 6, 2019.
“In those months when I was pregnant… we have in tandem the conversation of ‘he won’t be given security, he’s not…