Prince Harry has shared how his sister-in-law Kate Middleton's fingers "went white" during a tense chat to try and clear the air with Meghan Markle.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with ITV on Sunday ahead of his autobiography release on Tuesday, Prince Harry claimed that there had been a host of issues between the two couples.
Known to have been extremely close with his brother Prince William and Kate, Harry said that the pair had not got on with his then girlfriend from the beginning, and claimed they had "stereotyped" her.
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During the interview with Tom Bradby, the Mirror reports how Harry went onto say the views created a "barrier" from the two couples becoming close.
However, a crisis meeting had been held to try and clear the air between the group, a discussion that left Kate gripping her chair tightly.
Quoting sections of the book to Harry, Tom Bradby said: "At one stage, Harry recounts a clear-the-air meeting involving him, William, Kate, and Meghan. It seems to have gone so badly wrong that he describes Kate as gripping the edges of the leather chair so tightly that her fingers were white.
"Kate says she's owed an apology from Meghan who previously put a moment of Kate’s forgetfulness down to so-called baby brain. According to Harry, Kate tells Meghan they're not close enough to talk that way and William says, ‘That’s not what's done here in Britain’. The meeting ends awkwardly, with a hug of sorts."
Asked about the meeting in the interview, Harry says: "I don’t think they were ever expecting me to get into a relationship with someone like Meghan, who had, you know, a very successful career.
"There was a lot of stereotyping that was happening, that I was guilty of as well, at the beginning."
Pushed on what he meant by that, Harry continues: "American actress, and that was playing out in the British press in the media at the time as well.
"I had that in the back of my mind, and some of the things that my brother and sister-in-law – some of the way that they were acting or behaving definitely felt to me as though unfortunately that stereotyping was causing a bit of a barrier to them really sort of, you know, introducing or welcoming her in."
Asked specifically what he means. Harry adds: "Well, American actress, divorced, biracial, there's all different parts to that and what that can mean but if you are, like a lot of my family do, if you are reading the press, the British tabloids, [Yeah] at the same time as living the life, then there is a tendency where you could actually end up living in the tabloid bubble rather than the actual reality."
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