Prince Harry says he was 'probably bigoted' before he met Meghan Markle, he told CBS

• Prince Harry told a CBS interview that he was "probably bigoted" before he met his wife, Meghan Markle.
• Leaks of Prince Harry's autobiography Spare indicate racism within the Royal Family could be a key theme.

Prince Harry has said he was "naive" and "bigoted" before he met his wife Meghan Markle, he told CBS.

Appearing in a clip from an interview with Anderson Cooper, the prince spoke about the racism his wife has experienced from the British press.

He said: "What Meghan had to go through was similar in some part to what Kate and what Camilla went through – very different circumstances."

He added: "But then you add in the race element, which was what the press-- British press jumped on straight away. I went into this incredibly naïve. I had no idea the British press was so bigoted. Hell, I was probably bigoted before the relationship with Meghan."

Cooper followed up by asking, "You think you were bigoted before the relationship with Meghan?" and the prince then said: "I don't know. Put it this way, I didn't see what I now see."

The full interview is set to air on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Leaks of Prince Harry's autobiography Spare indicate race and racism within the Royal Family could be a key theme, with the Prince revealing that he often heard the use of racial slurs growing up.

The Duke of Sussex also wrote that he had called a South Asian, Ahmed Raza Khan, a fellow army cadet, a deeply offensive racist slur, which he expresses regret over, according to the BBC.

In the book, Harry said that he heard a racist slur used by "lots of people" around him when he was growing up.

"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," he said, per the BBC.

Prince Harry has also written about an incident that occurred in 2005, in which he was seen wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party.

The prince wrote that his brother and sister-in-law, Prince William and Kate, directed him to wear the outfit, saying they were "roaring with laughter" at the offensive outfit.

Harry has spoken about this in his recent Netflix docuseries, "Harry and Meghan."

"It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I felt so ashamed afterward," Harry said. "All I wanted to do was make it right," Insider's Mikhaila Friel reported.