“This was passed on to me by Harry. They were conversations the family had with him,” added Meghan, who declined to reveal who was involved in those conversations. “That would be very detrimental to them,” he said.
The duchess said the concerns were raised at the same time the couple was told Archie would have no security or an official title.
Harry was asked about the matter when he joined his wife to be part of the television special, which aired on Sunday evening on CBS and dominated UK headlines Monday morning. .
“This conversation, I’ll never share it,” Harry said. “At the time, I was uncomfortable, I was a little shocked.”
When Winfrey asked him if he could share the questions raised during the conversation, he declined and said, “I’m not comfortable sharing this.”
“But it was right at the beginning,” he added. “What will the children be like? It was at first when I wasn’t sure, when my family suggested I could keep acting (because there would be no money for her).”
In another part of the show, Harry also criticized family members for not supporting them when lawmakers pointed to “colonial nuances” in the way Meghan was treated in the British press.
“For us, for this union and the details around his career, there was an opportunity (many opportunities) for my family to show some public support,” Harry said. The couple has frequently criticized parts of the media for the racist elements of their coverage.
“One of the most striking parts and the saddest parts, I suppose, were more than 70 women MPs, both Conservative and Labor, who came out and called the colonial nuances of articles and headlines written about Meghan. I never said anything about my family. That hurts, “Harry told Winfrey.
“You have to live in his shoes, in this case, one day or the first eight days to see where he was going to get to and how far they were going to take him and get out of it,” he said of the British. the duchess’s media coverage, and added that she had not been aware of this element of the media until she met Meghan.
The interview will be broadcast on British television on Monday evening, but Meghan’s allegations of racism have already appeared in the UK headlines on Monday morning.
Asked Monday about the allegations, British Children’s Minister Vicky Ford said “there is no place” for racism.
“I haven’t seen the full interview, so I won’t comment on it, but just to reaffirm, there’s absolutely no place for racism in our society. And we all have to work together to make sure that doesn’t happen. “Ford told Britain’s Sky News on Monday.
The couple has talked about racism before, but has never filed charges against the same institution.