Harry and Meghan 'are NOT planning to apologise to the Royal Family' after allegation about 'skin colour' comment in Oprah interview

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not planning to apologise to the Royal Family after criticising them during their Oprah Winfrey interview, a source said today.The Duchess of Sussex infamously alleged on TV in March 2021 that an unnamed royal had speculated about how dark their unborn son Prince Archie's skin would be.The claim on the CBS programme in the US plunged the monarchy into crisis as the Windsors faced allegations of racism during Queen Elizabeth II's final months.The Sussexes have never publicly said who made the comment, although Oprah later confirmed the duke told her it was neither Elizabeth nor her husband Prince Philip.Royal author Omid Scobie, who is close to the Sussexes, then revealed in 2023 that Meghan named two royals involved in the conversations in private letters to the King.He said he could not name them for legal reasons, but a Dutch translation of his book Endgame identified them as Charles and Kate. The publisher withdrew the edition, citing an error - and Mr Scobie denied having ever written a draft with the names.This week, more than five years on from the bombshell Oprah interview, a report claimed that the couple are planning to apologise to the royals over the original claim.A source told the Express that the Sussexes want to have a sit-down chat with Prince William and Kate - but another source has now told the Daily Mail that this was false. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during their Oprah Winfrey interview on CBS in March 2021A Dutch translation of Omid Scobie's book Endgame identified two royals allegedly involved Harry and Meghan were once dubbed part of the 'Fab Four' with the then-Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. They are pictured at the first Royal Foundation Forum event in London in 2018In an interview with ITV in 2023 to promote his book, Harry denied that the Sussexes accused the royals of a racist response - instead describing it as 'unconscious bias'.Harry and former Suits star Meghan, who married at Windsor Castle in 2018, were once dubbed part of the 'Fab Four' with the then-Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.But in March 2019, Buckingham Palace announced Harry and Meghan would set up their own household, breaking from the joint operation they had with William and Kate, amid reports of rifts between the two couples.The fallout is said to have begun before Harry's wedding to Meghan, with the duke accusing William of being snobbish to his bride.But it worsened after the accusations Harry publicly levelled at his brother in double tell-alls: his memoir, Spare, and his Netflix documentary.In his autobiography, released just months after Queen Elizabeth II died, Harry claimed his 'archnemesis' brother 'Willy' physically attacked him and knocked him to the floor into a dog bowl in a row over Meghan's alleged rude behaviour.He also alleged it was William and Kate who encouraged him to wear a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party in 2005 and 'howled' with laughter when they saw it.Harry and Meghan, in their Netflix series two months after the Queen's death, claimed Kensington Palace lied to protect William when it issued a statement denying a story he had bullied Harry out of the Royal Family. William, Harry, Meghan and Charles at a Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in 2019 The Princess of Wales, the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex walk to meet members of the public at Windsor Castle following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022Harry also wrote of how Charles pleaded with his two sons during a tense meeting at Windsor just after the funeral of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, saying: 'Please, boys. Don't make my final years a misery'.In the Oprah interview, Meghan described how Kate made her cry ahead of the wedding – the opposite of reports circulating ahead of the nuptials that Meghan had left Kate in tears at Princess Charlotte's bridesmaid dress fitting.Reports of a fractious friendship between the two women were furthered in Spare, when Harry claimed Kate, pregnant at the time with Prince Louis, said she was owed an apology from Meghan for comments she was suffering from 'baby brain' due to her 'hormones'.Harry also shed further light on the row over Charlotte's bridesmaid dress, claiming in his book the incident left Meghan 'sobbing on the floor'.Meghan and Harry made a dramatic U-turn and relocated to the UK at the end of August, six years after quitting the working monarchy for a new life in the US.This week, the duke revealed he experienced a two-week period of depression after arriving in Canada ahead of the Megxit crisis, with an 'adrenaline crash' after escaping a 'stressful environment'.Harry opened up about his mental health with neuroscientist Dr Mary-Frances O'Connor in a session called Redefining Grief: Building Resilience Through Loss for the MasterClass video learning streaming platform.The duke also addressed his grief for his mother Princess Diana, saying for many years he felt like he had to be sad to prove he missed her.Harry also shared how he follows a rule of never being away from Meghan and their children Archie and Princess Lilibet for longer than ten days.