Even before the Sussex family moved back to the UK in late August, there were some odd rumors flying around. One of those rumors was that Prince Harry and Meghan were talking to staffers about possibly issuing a general apology to the Windsors, something along the lines of “perhaps we went too far, we’re sorry if we caused you any pain.” At the time, it sounded like Prince William (in particular) was begging the Sussexes for an apology, which he would then reject! Then, once the Sussexes moved, the royalists were furious because Harry “waltzed” back into Britain without groveling or apologizing. You get the idea: this whole “force Harry and Meghan to apologize” story has been circulating for a while, and the British tabloids brought it up again this week. Interestingly, there are denials across the board.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not planning to apologize to Prince William and Kate Middleton, a source tells PEOPLE, disputing a new report about a purported apology plan.
The U.K.’s Express reported on Oct. 6 that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex hoped to apologize to the Prince and Princess of Wales over comments made during their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, describing the reported move as part of a wider effort toward reconciliation.
A source close to Harry, 42, and Meghan, 45, tells PEOPLE that the claim is “nonsense.”
The outlet specifically claimed that the Sussexes planned to apologize over Meghan’s revelation during the interview that there had been “concerns and conversations” within the royal family about how dark Prince Archie’s skin might be before he was born.
The report comes amid renewed attention on the relationship between the two couples following Harry and Meghan’s return to the U.K. with their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5. PEOPLE has previously reported that while Harry has made some progress in rebuilding his relationship with his father, King Charles, there has been no comparable thaw with William.
“There’s no movement, especially on William’s side,” a source previously told PEOPLE.
“The outlet specifically claimed that the Sussexes planned to apologize over Meghan’s revelation during the interview that there had been ‘concerns and conversations’ within the royal family about how dark Prince Archie’s skin might be before he was born…” I mean, that was a key revelation during the Oprah interview, that there had been open conversations between various royals expressing “concerns” about Archie’s skin color. Why would Meghan and Harry apologize for that? Especially when the Windsors have never been able to deny it? Even via “sources,” there’s never been a flat denial, it’s just been William pointing a finger at Charles, who pointed a finger at Kate, who pointed a finger at Camilla. Which led me to believe that all four of them had racist “concerns.”
Page Six also had a denial, with Tom Sykes telling them that the apology story is “total rubbish” and that “Harry has always said he will never apologize for anything.” Yeah… methinks this is Charles and William communicating with Harry through the press. They’re telling him that a big public apology is what they need to take the next steps. I hope Harry and Meghan see through this asinine gambit.
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Charles, William, Kate, The Mail are all running out of interest in their stories/point of view. Ppl are literally bored of their lies about Harry/Meghan. OLD NEWS.
I totally agree. The bottom of the barrel has been scraped and there’s very little left to fill a headline. When Harry & Meghan news is boring the monarchy is doomed.
Yes people are bored of eating the same tired salad. But anyway, the racists bizarrely we’re the ones protecting themselves behind a grave illness, 2 days apart.
It’s been 10 years since Harry & Meg met and married and it’s out of their scope of thinking that Harry isn’t Will’s lackey. He really thinks that Harry should beg to be in his good graces when HE is the one who assaulted was/is part of the machine that fed the tabloids lies to report about Meghan.
Harry & Meghan left so that they can build and maintain their lives without the machine. Harry doesn’t need Will, nor should he bow to a destructive man-baby.
The only apology should be “sorry your wife is a lying racist and your husband is a violent bully”
It fits.
Yes!
I’ve always thought that the reason they disclosed the “concerns” about the baby’s skin tone and Meghan’s suicidal ideation was to explain why they left. Because everyone wanted an explanation and it was the truth that the UK had become unlivable. And not just because of the press.
Im trying to remember how the conversation about skin color came up. Bc part of it was also them wanting to correct false headlines. At the time, the story was that the Sussexes said that they didn’t want Archie to have any titles. So Meghan was explaining that when they were in the uk there were simultaneous conversations happening, about changing the LP so Archie wouldn’t have a Prince title and also about concerns around his potential skin color, and leaving her to wonder why these conversations were happening at the same time. I think that’s why the skin color convo came up maybe? but I’m not one hundred so someone can correct me.
That’s how it came up – I actually kind of wonder if Meghan meant to bring it up or if it just tumbled out bc that was a pretty emotional part of the interview. That’s partly why I think Oprah did the “wait wait” thing that became a meme – she was trying to pace Meghan a little morel.
But yes, your general memory is correct Jais – it was about security and how that was being tied to the titles, and how the palace was talking about changing the LPs and this was while she was pregnant and there were conversations about how dark the baby might be and what that would “mean” or “look like” and that’s when Oprah sort of paused things and walked through that particular issue.
Those gutter rats modus operandi is to spread a rumor give it traction by having other gutter rats pick it up and this becomes the story across multiple platforms. Same with the Sussexes relationship, just spread the rumor othe outlets will do the dirty work by spreading it across multiple platforms. As the Sussexes spokesperson expressed, pure nonsense.
Exactly – it’s propaganda and that is how propaganda works. Repetition, source amnesia, processing fluency.
And if they did apologize, the Windsors and the tabs would then use that to claim that H&M had concocted all these stories, that there was never any truth to them. They know full well that what the Sussexes told Oprah will follow them to their graves. And they need an apology to get out from under because they know they’re never beating the allegations.
Good. They have nothing to apologize for. As Kaiser said the Royal Family has never denied that there were concerns about Archie’s skin colour.
Fun fact, in the interview they didn’t mention any names “because it would be damaging to the person”. After Piers Morgan outed Charles and Kate as the culprits (never confirmed by the Sussexes) now the British press basically says it was William and Kate, why else should they apologize to these two for the remark? Seems the entire family was involved.
The “they must apologize to Waity and Willy” articles were nauseating and ridiculous because they are being pushed while the BRF once again refuses to acknowledge, apologize or make restitution for their involvement with slavery in the past and they still have family members who were clients of a human trafficker who sold minor children to Andy. But somehow it’s the Sussex’s expected and harassed by the tabloids to apologize. The Sussex’s have absolutely nothing to apologize to that family for whatsoever
Keen did not deny the crying story so meghan set the record straight. Keen playing victim is a joke
Ha, I dont even care if this is actually coming from a source close to the Sussexes or if its totally made up. I’m just glad to see in writing “no actually they’re not going to apologize, stop dreaming.”
Meghan explained in the interview why they were doing it – if the Firm was going to continue to actively brief against them, how could they expect that they remained silent? My feeling has always been that if the Firm and the press had just left them alone after they moved to the US – especially the palace briefings to the press -they might not have done Oprah. I think Spare and the docuseries likely would have still happened, but the docuseries may have had a different perspective. But the palace continued to attack them for a solid YEAR and then was shocked that they spoke out.
Their big sin was not just accepting the press abuse and the way they were treated within the Firm, especially by the Cambridge/Wales. And its gross that the press wont come out and say that.
So true.
Okay, yeah, that was my understanding, that a lot of it was about correcting lies in the headlines from BM and the RF briefings. And I hope they did say nonsense. Why should they apologize for others having discussions about a baby’s potential skin color. Please.
The problem is that everyone else is supposed to fall on their swords to save face for the monarch and the heir and Harry and Meghan refuse to do that.
They’ve stayed from the expectation that everyone is supposed to be happy to suffer the abuse to stay in the royal orbit. So H&M standing up for themselves and refusing to acquiesce had broken the royal system. William hasn’t gotten over Meghan telling him to kindly remove his finger from her face. As far as he’s concerned, he’s allowed to mistreat anyone he wants, including his brother and his sister-in-law.
This is why they use the word ‘American’ as a pejorative descriptor for Meghan. She’s an outsider unwilling to play along to the hierarchical normative sh-t eating required to go along and get along in the British class system. (Too bad, so sad)
I do like how she got the hell out of Dodge when the dime finally dropped about just exactly what kind of abuse both covert and overt she was expected to endure on a daily basis. Asking Bald Willy to kindly remove his finger from her face was equivalent in his mind to kicking him in the nads lol.
Never complain, never explain, just brief the tabs nonstop and blame all of the resulting publicity on H&M. No one buys any of it anymore.
It’s worth rereading Becky English’s reporting in that screenshot above on the palace reaction to the Oprah interview. It’s all “the palace is reeling” and “intense personal shock and sadness” and “horror and dismay,” but nothing about the palace denying H&M’s claims.
At least not on the front page. This shows that the palace knew it was all true — they couldn’t deny it. They could only cry and shriek about it.
The Sussexes shouldn’t apologize, ever, for telling the truth.