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Posted: 2023-01-10T13:14:48Z | Updated: 2023-01-10T13:46:48Z

Monday morning brought another batch of headlines about Prince Harry. Not the revelations from his Netflix docuseries with Meghan Markle , nor the leaked excerpts from his highly-anticipated book, Spare , which is finally published today.

These were details from Prince Harry s hour and 40 minute interview with ITV News presenter Tom Bradby, which aired on Sunday night in the U.K.

In the interview, Prince Harry defended his memoir, stating that remaining silent only allows the abuser to abuse. Additionally, he called out the royal familys deafening silence over Jeremy Clarksons horrific article in The Sun about his wife.

However, the Duke of Sussex also denied that he and Meghan ever accused the royal family of racism back in their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey saying there is a difference between racism and unconscious bias.

Famously, Meghan told Oprah in that interview that members of the royal family had concerns and conversations when she was pregnant with her son, Archie, about how dark his skin would be a claim that prompted global uproar and was widely understood and reported as an allegation of racism. Not so, said Harry, who laid the blame for this misunderstanding at the medias door.

In Sunday nights broadcast, Bradby also questioned Harry about the recent row over comments made by a palace staffer, Lady Susan Hussey , to Ngozi Fulani, from the charity Sistah Space, at a Buckingham Palace reception.

The British-born charity founder said Hussey repeatedly asked her where she really came from, even moving her hair to see her name badge at the event, to ask again: What part of Africa are you from?

The two have since met and reconciled , and Harry now claims she didnt mean any harm at all.

And its these comments, coupled with Harry telling Bradby he still believes in the monarchy , that have sparked confusion, particularly among Black Brits.

Ore*, a 23-year-old student from Essex, says that watching Sundays ITV interview left her feeling the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were not the anti-imperialist and anti-racist activists that she had wanted them to be.

Whilst I believe the racist treatment of Meghan by the royal family and press is abhorrent and speaks to the racism Black people face in the UK, I now believe that if Megan was accepted by the royal family and the press, they would be happy and willing participants in the racist and imperialist institution, she tells HuffPost UK.

Ore views Harrys latest comments as a slap in the face to all the Black people that rallied in support of him and Meghan.

It came as a shock, because the treatment of Megan and her then-unborn child by his family is undeniably racist, she says. It shows his unwillingness to really stand with Black people on issues concerning race and that he has no true understanding of race, despite marrying a mixed-race woman.