Buckingham Palace set to stay silent as Queen is briefed about Oprah interview

Buckingham Palace aides were today briefing the Queen
PA Wire
Robert Jobson8 March 2021

Buckingham Palace aides were today briefing the Queen about Meghan and Prince Harry’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey before it airs in the UK on ITV tonight.

Senior courtiers and lawyers were understood to have been watching a live feed of the interview as it was aired on the CBS network in the US at the palace.

The palace was not expected to respond officially this morning.

The claims include allegations of racism — with the duchess saying that an unnamed member of the royal family raised questions over what skin tone Archie would have.

Meghan also claims the palace failed to protect her, and suggested Archie wasn’t made a prince because he was mixed race.

A source said: “The palace are not going to get in some sort of tit-for-tat row over this. The Queen needs to be fully briefed. That is the priority.”

However, royal experts argued that claims that Archie did not get a princely title because he was mixed race are untrue.

In 1917 King George V declared that the children of the sovereign, the children of any sons of the sovereign, and the eldest living son of the eldest living son of the Prince of Wales would be granted the style of HRH.

This means that Prince William’s children — George, Charlotte and Louis — were automatically granted the title of HRH prince or princess when they were born. But as Harry is the second son of Prince Charles, it meant Archie did not qualify to become a prince automatically.

It comes as Prince Philip, 99, approaches his third week in hospital being treated for an infection and recovering from a heart operation.

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