Prince Harry claimed that systemic racism in England was a “large part” of why they moved in an unaired footage from Oprah Winfrey’s conversation with the royal couple.

When asked if they left the UK “because of racism,” Prince Harry said: “It was a large part of it.”

The UK tabloid media, Prince Harry told Oprah Winfrey, is “bigoted” and produces a “toxic environment” of “control and fear”

The Duke told Winfrey that a buddy who works with British editors warned him that the pair would endure discriminatory treatment.

“I remember the Sentebale fundraiser,” Harry said. “One of the people at that dinner said to me, ‘Please, please don’t do this with the media. They will destroy your life.’ This person is friends with a lot of the editors and I said, ‘What do you mean by that?’ Obviously I knew. They said, ‘You don’t understand, the U.K. is very bigoted.’ And I stopped, and I said the U.K.’s not bigoted, the U.K. press is bigoted, specifically the tabloids. Is that what you mean?’ He goes, “No, the U.K. is bigoted.’ And I said I completely disagree.

“But unfortunately, if the source of information is inherently corrupt or racist or biased, then that filters out to the rest of society.”

He believes the Prince of Wales must “make peace with it”

In another video, Markle expressed her dissatisfaction with the royal family’s response to her worries about racism.

“Rude and racist are not the same,” Markle told Oprah in one of several new recordings shown Monday on “CBS This Morning,” referring to how Kate Middleton was dubbed “Waity Katie” when dating Harry’s older brother, William, before he proposed in 2010.

“And equally, you’ve also had a press team that goes on the record to defend you, especially when they know something’s not true,” she grumbled, implying that her ire was directed at William and Kate.

“And that didn’t happen for us,” she said.

In January 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced their retirement from royal life, and they have been residing in California since March of that year.

Harry has previously stated that until he met Meghan, he had little understanding of unconscious prejudice. In the Oprah interview, he brought it up again. “Sad as it is to say it, it takes living in her shoes, in this instance, for a day or those first eight days to see where it was gonna go and how far they were gonna take it,” he explained. “And get away with it and be so blatant about it. That’s the bit that shocked me.”

“It was like the Wild Wild West,” Markle said, blaming social media for spreading stories and harsh remarks “like wildfire.”

“Plus my being American, it translated in a different way across the pond, so you had a noise level that was very different,” she claimed, contrasting her treatment to Middleton’s.

According to Insider’s Armani Syed, no member of the royal family has ever denounced Markle’s treatment by the British media, and Prince Harry has stated “that hurts,” Right from the start of the couple’s relationship in 2016, Harry issued a statement addressing the problem.

Harry and Meghan spoke with Oprah about a variety of profoundly personal issues, including mental health, their relationship with the media, and Royal Family dynamics, in their much-anticipated interview.

The Duchess of Sussex also discussed her experiences as a woman of color in the royal family, including prejudice. She said that there were “concerns and conversations” around the palace about “how dark his skin might be when he’s born.” while she was pregnant with her first child, Archie.

More details concerning Harry and Markle’s allegations that members of the royal family voiced fear that their son Archie might be born with black complexion were disclosed the next morning.

“(Prince Harry) did not want to share the identity with me but he wanted to make sure that I knew and, if I had an opportunity to share it, that it was not his grandmother nor his grandfather that was a part of those conversations,” Winfrey said, eliminating Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.