hello and welcome the fallout from the
bombshell interview by the duke and
duchess of sussex has taken another turn
speaking in the last hour prince william
has insisted
the royal family is not racist while on
a visit to a school in london the second
in line to the british throne also
revealed
he's not spoken to his brother prince
harry since the interview
harry's wife megan and harry gave to
oprah on the weekend
it is very rare for a senior role to
make such public comments
so uh let's have a listen sir have you
broke have you spoken to your brother
since the interview
i haven't spoken yet but i will do and
can you just let me know is that the
royal family a racist family sir
i'm very much not a racist time
let's talk now to angela levin royal
commentator and author of a biography of
prince harry angela great to have you
with us
to take us through what's going on right
now were you surprised to hear
prince william addressing those
allegations directly in that way
well it is extraordinary usually the the
royals and he particularly walks on to
get on with
the job that he came to do but to me it
shows very much the difference in the
generations
the queen who is also a grandmother
very much wants to stay in touch with
harry she's worrying about him
and she cares very much how he's going
to respond
to her and the royal family prince
charles is believed to be incredibly
hurt and who would blame him
by harry's unfounded
accusations and and i think he was too
emotionally involved he's a very
emotional
man and and it was too much to actually
talk about it so soon and he doesn't he
rarely talks about these things when
he's on
on an engagement but of course prince
william is in the same boat as harry in
that they both had the same experiences
of their mother
um dying very young and they both had
this experience
well to grieve with thousands of people
watching them
and he's not afraid of his brother he
can stand up to his brother
and i think he was he showed that he's
he's
very angry and very hurt at his visit
uh to a school for for a mental health
initiative
it's not that he's not involved in
mental health or doesn't care about
mental health
and and to say we are absolutely not a
sexist family
uh is is very very interesting and quite
dramatic
he wouldn't want to just increase the
flames for no reason but i think and as
many of us do
that prince harry and megan really
crossed a line
um and if they've got these private
matters they should have sorted it out
privately not tell the world and not be
so aggressive
and and make accusations without
proof angela responding in this way
though
prince william will add fuel to the fire
what does he hope the outcome will be
prince william now
i think that he wants to defend himself
and the royal family he is an
heir to the throne and he particularly
wants to protect
kate and he just won't have it um harry
has said many a time over their years
they have big rows and they get very
cross with each other because they're
very different type of personalities
but they well he said he loves william
very much
and they they will always
um help each other in in a case that's
really bad
and but he also said what what at the
interview
that what the state of affairs between
his brother
himself is is space in other words
they're not talking to each other um do
you think this is a relationship between
these brothers that can be repaired
after all of this
angela well i think you can put plaster
on it and you can maybe fill the cracks
but i don't think it would ever be the
same i think they will acknowledge each
other
be polite they both want to be together
when they unveil the statue of diana
to celebrate what would have been his
60th birthday
in the summer um he won't turn his back
on him
but i think he won't forgive him
what was harry thinking in giving this
interview in this way
to oprah do you think angela what was
his calculation
well it could have been many things one
he's
devoted to keep megan happy
he said before the wedding what megan
wants megan gets
so he feels perhaps that he has no
choice but to do that for her
two it might be enormous resentment
which we saw and heard three
that he wants to get his own back
somehow for
what he believes the royal family um
so badly behaved towards towards his
adored wife
and firstly it's quite interesting that
although he's 36 and he's got 300
million pounds
in in in his pocket as it were he still
feels his father should keep him
even though he's not in the uk or the
commonwealth
and he was very very cross that um
prince
charles has withdrawn some of the money
but you know that makes sense because
you can't have
uk protection officers in a country
that's
really um not part of of the
commonwealth
angela good to get your thoughts thank
you so much for joining us so
just to remind you we've had prince
william responding it's very unusual for
a senior role to do this to some of
those allegations
from harry and meghan he has said that
we are very much
not a racist family that he has not
spoken to willia
to harry yet but that he intends to do
so