Prince Harry threw cold water on speculation that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip partook in conversations over Archie's skin tone, narrowing down who in the royal family could have been involved

• In a bombshell interview Sunday, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle described their lives as former royals.
• Markle said some members of the royal family were concerned how dark their son Archie's skin would be before he was born.
• Winfrey clarified that Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip did not partake in discussions over Archie's skin color.

Following a conversation with Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey clarified that the Royal family official who purportedly expressed concern about the skin color of Harry and Meghan Markle's child Archie was not Queen Elizabeth II or Prince Philip.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex described their experience as a part of the royal family in harrowing detail in a bombshell interview with Winfrey on Sunday evening.

During the interview, Markle said some unidentified members of the royal family had "concerns and conversations" about how dark their son Archie's skin would be before he was born and about "what that would mean or look like" if their future baby had dark skin. Markle is half Black.

"In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time, we have in tandem the conversation of, 'he won't be given security, he's not going to be given a title, and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born," Markle said during the interview, taking Winfrey by surprise.

"What?" Winfrey replied. "Who is having that conversation with you? What?"

Markle refused to identify the royals who had expressed concern because she thought "that would be very damaging to them."

"That conversation I'm never going to share," Harry added later in the interview with Winfrey. "At the time, it was awkward. I was a bit shocked."

In a follow-up interview on "CBS This Morning," Winfrey clarified that Harry told her that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip did not participate in the discussions over Archie's skin color.

"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.

The clarification threw cold water on emerging rumors over who in the royal family could have taken part in the discussions, narrowing down who may have expressed concern over Archie's skin tone. Some speculated that Harry shared that it wasn't his grandparents in order to drop more clues about who was involved.

The interview, which garnered more than 17 million viewers, sparked a backlash against the palace, with calls to #AbolishTheMonarchy going viral soon after it aired.