Buckingham Palace seems to suggest Harry misremembered racist conversations about his son, Archie
- Buckingham Palace suggested Prince Harry may've misremembered discussions about his son's skin tone.
- Harry and Meghan described the conversations during their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.
- After alluding to the couple's comments about race, the palace said "some recollections may vary."
Buckingham Palace seemed to suggest in a statement Tuesday that Prince Harry misremembered conversations about his first child's skin color while Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was pregnant.
"The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning," the palace said in the statement. "While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately."
In a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey that first aired Sunday, Prince Harry and Meghan shared a bombshell accusation that there were "concerns and conversations" from at least one royal family member about how dark their son Archie's skin would be. Harry declined to say who the conversations involved, as did Meghan, who said she was told about the comments later by Harry.
Buckingham Palace responded to the interview for the first time with Tuesday's statement, saying the "whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan."
"Harry, Meghan, and Archie will always be much-loved family members," the statement concluded.
Meghan, in declining to identify whom had participated in such conversations, said she thought "that would be very damaging to them." Harry added later in the interview with Winfrey that he was "never going to share" more information about it.
"At the time, it was awkward," Harry said. "I was a bit shocked."
The Duke of Sussex later told Winfrey that his grandparents - Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip - did not take part in the discussions over Archie's skin color, Winfrey shared in a follow-up interview with CBS News.
"He did not share the identity with me, but he wanted to make sure I knew and if had the opportunity to share it that it was not his grandmother nor grandfather that were a part of those conversations," Winfrey said.