Prince Harry has claimed that his brother William and sister-in-law Kate didn't get on with Meghan Markle "from the get-go."
The Duke spoke to ITV's Tom Bradby on the eve of the publication of his autobiography, Spare, to discuss his relationship with his brother, father and rest of his family.
In the interview, Mr Bradby questioned if William and Kate didn't get on "from the get-go" with Meghan, to which Harry said: "Yeah, fair."
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Explaining further, Harry said: "[There were] lots of different reasons ... I had put a lot of hope in the idea that it'd be William and Kate and me and whoever.
"I thought the four of us would bring me and William closer together, we could go out and do work together, which I did a lot as the third wheel to them, which was fun at times but also, I guess, slightly awkward at times as well.
"I don't think they were ever expecting me to get ... into a relationship with someone like Meghan who had a very successful career."
Referencing Meghan's acting career, Harry said stereotyping caused a "bit of a barrier".
He said: "The fact that 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 introducing or welcoming her in."
Harry added: "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 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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