Harry Accused of Calling Archie His ‘Little African Child’ as the Friend Who Allegedly Heard Him Was ‘Absolutely Stunned’
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When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took a step back from being working royals, the decision was painted as one that had more to do with mental health than anything. But after a while, other reports came out. Reports about comments from certain members of the royal family, particularly towards Markle and Prince Archie, the couple’s oldest child.
Though the exact details of what was reportedly said have never truly been disclosed, there have been rumblings. Now, a new report about something Prince Harry himself reportedly said is making the rounds, and it doesn’t sound good at all. The prince reportedly told primatologist Jane Goodall that his son Prince Archie was “my little African child” after he was born. The comment was disclosed by former magazine editor Tina Brown.
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Brown told Katie Couric’s YouTube show about what Goodall relayed to her. “Jane Goodall, before she died, I had a lunch with her,” Brown told Couric, “and she said that she went to see… she was one of the only people outside the family that went to see Archie when he was born. And Harry said, ‘This is my little African child.’”
“It’s going to be my child who essentially… you know… wild child, essentially… they were going to have this time together, living a life off the grid as it were. She said she was absolutely stunned when he chose the life that he did.”
The comment was made as Brown was discussing the fact that the royals always expected Harry to step back from his royal duties, but did not expect the life he has built for himself in the United States. “I’m told that the Queen always thought that Harry would go off and want to be out of the royal family,” Brown said. “But they all thought that he would do something like… they all expected him to kind of go to Africa and become a person who focused on conservation of animals in Africa and live a kind of off-the-grid life, is what they all thought.
“Nobody expected him to go to Montecito and live the opposite of the off-the-grid life, which is the kind of celebrity life. And I don’t think that Harry thought he was going to do that either.”
A spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex responded to Brown’s account with, “The Duke of Sussex has never said anything remotely resembling what is being claimed.” The statement went on to add. “Tina Brown knows exactly what she’s doing by inventing these words and attributing them to a highly respected woman who is deceased and unable to correct the record.“
Prince Harry has recently been estranged from his family, but in September, he reunited with his father King Charles, for the first time in over a year, and there are now rumblings that a Christmas family reunion might be in the cards. Whether that is true, and whether Brown’s comments reopen an old wound about what has been or not been said about Archie, remains to be seen.
