Meghan Markle Shocks Oprah: Members of the Royal Family Worried About ‘How Dark’ Archie’s ‘Skin Might Be’
EXCERPT:
MARKLE: "But I can give you an honest answer. In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time, so we had in tandem the conversation of he won't be given security, he's not going to be given a title, and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.”
MARKLE: "And —"
WINFREY: “What? Who — who is having that conversation with you? What?”
MARKLE: "So, um —"
WINFREY: "There is a conversation about — hold up, hold up, stop right now."
MARKLE: "There are several conversations about it."
WINFREY: "There's a conversation with you —"
MARKLE: "With Harry."
WINFREY: " — about how dark your baby is going to be?”
MARKLE: "Potentially, and what that would mean or look like."
WINFREY: "Whoa. And you’re not going to tell me who had the conversation?”
MARKLE: “I think that would be very damaging to them."
WINFREY: "Okay. So how does one have that meeting?"
MARKLE: "That was related to me through Harry. Those were conversations that family had with him. And I think it was really hard to see those as compartmentalized conversations."
WINREY: "So they were concerned that if you were too brown, that that would be a problem? Are you saying that?"
MARKLE: "I wasn't able to follow up with why, but if that's the assumption you're making, I think that feels like a pretty safe one.”
