HARRY AND MEGHAN'S BOMBSHELL CLAIMS NEW BLAST FOR ROYAL FAMILY

‘LEVEL OF UNCONSCIOUS BIAS IS HUGE’. ‘MEN MARRY TO FIT MOULD, WE WENT WITH HEART’. FIRST MEETING WITH KATE WAS ‘FORMAL’. DIANA-BASHIR FILM USED DESPITE WILLIAM WISHES

- Robert Jobson, Nicholas Cecil, Rachael Burford and Tom Davidson

HARRY and Meghan risked deepening the rift with the royal family as a new documentary started with a series of bombshell claims.

The first three episodes of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s six-part Netflix blockbuster were streamed from 8am UK time. The couple, now living in California, made a string of damaging allegations against the royal family in the series which is expected to net them millions of pounds. They include:

⬤ On racism, there is a “huge level of unconscious bias” within the royal institution.

⬤ Harry claimed that some of the royal men suggested that the relentless media focus on Meghan was a “rite of passage” but he responded that what was different for her was the “race element”.

⬤ In what may be seen as a swipe at his brother William, or the King himself, Harry said that some of the royal men may have been tempted to marry “someone who would fit the mould as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with”.

⬤ In apparent criticism of the Princess of Wales, Meghan said that when she first met her she started to “understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside”. She added: “I was a hugger. I’ve always been a hugger, I didn’t realise that that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.”