Prince Harry on Meghan Markle’s treatment
Prince Harry: ‘I was probably bigoted before dating Meghan’ 60 minutes 00:30
In an interview to be aired on 60 Minutes this Sunday, Prince Harry says he was “incredibly naïve” about how the British press would treat his relationship with now-wife Meghan Markle. Harry also noted that the relationship has given him a new awareness.
“What Meghan had to go through partly resembled what [Princess] Kate and what Camilla, [Queen Consort,] went through — very different circumstances,” Harry Anderson Cooper said in a clip from the interview published Thursday. I was incredibly naïve about it. I had no idea the British press was so bigoted. Hell, I was probably bigoted before dating Meghan.”
“Do you think you were bigoted before dating Meghan?” Cooper asked.
“I don’t know,” Harry said. “Put it like that, I didn’t see what I see now.”
The interview is Harry’s first on American television about his new memoir, Spare, due for release next Tuesday.
In another clip from the 60 Minutes interview, Harry explained why his move from the royal family was so public.
“Every time I’ve tried privately, there have been briefings and leaks and stories against me and my wife,” Harry told Cooper. “You know, the family motto is never complain, never explain, but it’s just a motto.”
“There’s a lot to complain about and a lot to explain…through leaks,” Cooper said.
“They will feed or chat with the correspondent,” Harry explained. “And that correspondent is literally being fed the information and writing the story. And he will end by saying he has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting. You’ve been told for the past six years, ‘We can’t make a statement to protect you.’ But you do it for other family members. It gets – it gets to a point where silence is treason.”
60 Minutes airs Sunday at 7:30 p.m. ET, immediately following CBS’ coverage of the NFL, and streams on Paramount+.
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