Prince Harry Admits He Was Probably “Bigoted” Before Relationship With Wife Meghan Markle and “Naive” About Media Coverage Due To Her Ethnicity

Prince Harry just lately admitted in an interview with CBS that earlier than assembly his now-wife Meghan Markel that he was in all probability “bigoted.”

He additionally disclosed that he was naive to how her ethnicity would play out in media protection, the BBC reported.

“I went into this incredibly naive. I had no idea the British press were so bigoted. Hell, I was probably bigoted before the relationship with Meghan,” he instructed CBS interviewer Anderson Cooper.

Cooper then requested, “You think you were bigoted before the relationship with Meghan?”

“I don’t know. Put it this way, I didn’t see what I now see,” he responded.

Harry has been within the information forward of his memoir “Spare,” which is scheduled to be printed on Jan. 10. Nonetheless, snippets from the ebook have been launched, together with one the place he expresses remorse for calling a South Asian cadet a racist slur whereas at Sandhurst.

Apparently, it was a racial slur thought-about some of the offensive in the direction of folks of South Asian origin. One he says he heard numerous folks say all through his childhood.

The incident in query is from 2009 when footage circulated from a couple of years earlier of him calling a fellow Sandhurst cadet “my little [P-word] friend.”

“I didn’t know [it] was an insult,” he mentioned. “When I was little, I’d heard lots of people use that word and had never seen anyone scowl or seem upset, and I’d never considered those people [using the word] to be racists,” he mentioned.

“I was 21, I’d grown up isolated from the real world and surrounded by privileges, and I believed that word was like saying ‘Yankee.’ Innocuous.”