Prince Harry Says the Queen Has Gotten Some 'Really Bad Advice' From Advisors

From ELLE

CBS This Morning has been airing more clips from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's interview with Oprah, a three-hour conversation that was edited down to a broadcast that was half the length. In the first two clips aired, Harry spoke about whether racism pushed him and Meghan out of the UK and admitted that the Queen's advisors played a role restricting his and Meghan's access to his grandmother.

Oprah also revealed that Harry clarified to her that neither the Queen nor Prince Philip were part of "concerns and conversations" some in the royal family had "about how dark [Archie's] skin might be when he's born," as Meghan put it in the interview.

Harry touched on advisors blocking him and Meghan from the Queen, explaining that The Queen had invited Harry and Meghan when they landed back in the UK in January to go meet her in Norfolk at Sandringham.

Then Harry was informed by someone else that she would be busy. When he called his grandmother to check about that day, thinking he would go up anyway if she was available, she said an unexpected event came up in her diary. Harry asked about her availability the rest of the week: "'Well that’s busy now as well,'" he said she told him. "I didn’t want to push because I kind of knew what was going on. And then later that night..."

Oprah asked him didn’t the Queen get to control her schedule and who she could see, expressing shock that advisors could stop her from seeing her own grandchild.

"No, when you’re head of a firm, there are people around you that give you advice and what has also made me really sad is that some of that advice has been really bad," Harry said.

In another clip, Oprah asked Harry whether racism was part of the reason he and Meghan ultimately left the UK.

"It was a large part of it [racism prompting us to leave]," he said. "I remember that Sentebale fundraiser, one of the people at that dinner said to me please don’t do this with the media, they will destroy your life. This person is friends with a lot of editors [there]…[that person said] you have to understand the UK is very bigoted. I stopped and said the UK isn’t bigoted; the tabloids are." The person Harry was talking to insisted that no, the UK is bigoted. "I said I completely disagree…but unfortunately if the source of information is inherently corrupt or racist then that thought is out to the rest of society."

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