Prince Harry has been called “unforgivable” for not clearing up claims made about racism in the Royal Family with Queen Elizabeth before her death. In their interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, Harry and his wife Meghan Markle spoke out about supposed comments made before the birth of their son Archie regarding how dark his skin might be, leading to an outcry about an alleged royal racist.
However, last month in his interview with Tom Bradby, Harry appeared to backtrack by saying the monarchy was not guilty of racism but of “unconscious bias”.
Paul Burrell, who served Princess Diana and the late Queen for around a decade, questioned why the Duke of Sussex did not “sort out this mess” with his grandmother before she died last September.
He told The Mirror: “The Queen went to her grave thinking that there was a racist in the Royal Family.
“And suddenly Harry says after his grandmother’s death, we never said that. It was the media who said that?
“So, Harry, why didn’t you clear up that mess? Why didn’t you settle your grandmother’s mind when she was worrying in her sitting room at Windsor Castle?
“To not sort out that mess before she died. It’s unforgivable.”
During his ITV interview with Tom Bradby to promote his autobiography Spare, Harry refuted that he had ever described the monarchy as racist.
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Mr Burrell announced earlier this year that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is receiving treatment, leaving him worried that he does not have much time left to talk with the princes.
He said: “My illness has focused my attention on telling the boys things before it’s too late – telling them what they really should know.
“I know some of it isn’t pretty, but if I leave this place and go somewhere else they’ll never know.
“I think they should know.”
