Prince Harry tells Netflix royal family has an 'unconscious bias' on race trends now
Prince Harry has claimed the Royal Family has a 'huge' problem with 'unconscious bias' as Netflix revisited the moment Princess Michael of Kent wore a Blackamoor brooch to a Christmas lunch attended by Meghan Markle.
Princess Michael, who is married to the former Queen's cousin, Prince Michael, could clearly be seen wearing the jewellery on her coat as she drove through the gates of Buckingham Palace in 2017. She later said she was 'very sorry'.
She was not sitting at the same table as the Duchess of Sussex, 41, who was attending the event for the first time, but would have been introduced to her at the intimate, private gathering.
Princess Michael, who is married to the former Queen's cousin, Prince Michael, could clearly be seen wearing the jewellery on her coat as she drove through the gates of Buckingham Palace in 2017
Harry told Netflix today: 'In this family, sometimes you are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. There is a huge level of unconscious bias.
'The thing with unconscious bias, it is actually no one's fault. But once it has been pointed out, or identified within yourself you then need to make it right.
'It is education. It is awareness. It is a constant work in progress for everybody, including me.'
The Duke added that members of the royal family asked why the duchess should be 'protected' when they questioned newspaper headlines about her.
'The direction from the Palace was don't say anything,' he said.
'But what people need to understand is, as far as a lot of the family were concerned, everything that she was being put through, they had been put through as well.
'So it was almost like a rite of passage, and some of the members of the family were like 'My wife had to go through that, so why should your girlfriend be treated any differently?' 'Why should you get special treatment?' 'Why should she be protected?''
'I said 'The
