Queen to appoint diversity chief following Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's racism claims, royal source says

• Queen Elizabeth II is set to appoint a diversity chief, The Mail on Sunday reported.
• Palace aides will also take part in "listen and learn" exercises, a royal source said.
• This follows Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's accusations of racism during their Oprah interview.

The Queen is set to appoint a 'diversity czar' to oversee the modernization of the monarchy following claims of racism against the royal family by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, according to The Mail on Sunday.

The recruitment of a diversity chief is just one of several plans suggested as part of the reform effort, The Mail reported.

Palace aides will engage in a "listen and learn" exercise with a wide variety of speakers, the paper said.

The royals will also "seek independent views" on being more inclusive to ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ communities, The Mail's Kate Mansey reported.

"This is an issue which has been taken very seriously across the Households," an unnamed royal source told the paper. "We have the policies, procedures, and programs in place but we haven't seen the progress we would like and accept more needs to be done. We can always improve."

The source added that this has been in the making for a while. '"The work to do this has been underway for some time now and comes with the full support of the family," they told The Mail.

The appointment follows bombshell revelations made by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.

During the televised conversation, Markle said that members of the royal family had "concerns and conversations" about how dark her son Archie's skin would be. She did not name which royals had expressed the concerns - but Oprah later clarified that it was not Queen Elizabeth II or Prince Philip.

Buckingham Palace is currently investigating claims that Markle bullied members of the royal staff. Some have suggested these accusations are rooted in racial stereotypes, Insider's Armani Syed previously wrote.