Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not preparing any apology to the Royal Family for their Oprah-era attacks, a source says, undercutting a rival report that floated a thaw with William and Kate.
More than five years after their March 2021 sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, the Sussexes still show no sign of walking back the claims that tore into the monarchy. A source has now said the couple does not plan to apologize for the criticisms leveled in that CBS interview, pushing back on a separate account circulated this week that they were ready to make amends.
That rival account had suggested Harry and Meghan wanted a sit-down with Prince William and Catherine, the Princess of Wales. An Express source floated the idea of a reconciliation meeting. Another source told the Daily Mail the claim was false. The Daily Mail reported the non-apology line as the clearer read on where the couple stands.
The March 2021 interview remains the flashpoint. Meghan alleged that an unnamed royal had speculated about how dark their unborn son Archie’s skin would be. The charge landed hard on an institution already navigating public scrutiny, and it left the Windsors absorbing racism allegations without a clean public target.
Oprah later confirmed that Harry told her the remark did not come from Queen Elizabeth II or Prince Philip. The couple never publicly named the person in that broadcast. The accusation traveled anyway.
In a 2023 ITV interview while promoting his memoir, Harry denied that the Sussexes had accused the royals of a racist response. He framed it instead as “unconscious bias.” The softer label did not erase the original damage or restore trust inside the family.
The Oprah appearance was not a one-off. Just months after the Queen’s death, Harry’s memoir Spare piled on fresh claims about William and Kate, including an alleged physical altercation and old grievances from before the 2018 Windsor Castle wedding. A Netflix series released two months after the Queen died claimed Kensington Palace had lied to protect William, a charge the palace side had already answered by denying a story that William bullied Harry out of the working royal fold.
Author Omid Scobie, long described as close to the Sussexes, said in 2023 that Meghan had named two royals in private letters to King Charles and that he could not identify them for legal reasons. A Dutch translation of Scobie’s book Endgame went further and named Charles and Kate. The publisher withdrew that edition, citing an error. Scobie denied ever writing a draft that included the names.
None of that sequence produced a plain, on-record apology from Harry or Meghan to the people who took the hit.
Harry’s own account of the period after Prince Philip’s funeral captured how raw the break had become. He wrote that Charles pleaded with his sons, saying, “Please, boys. Don’t make my final years a misery.”
"Please, boys. Don’t make my final years a misery."
Public gestures still flickered. After the Queen died in 2022, William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan appeared together to meet mourners at Windsor Castle. The image did not settle the underlying fight. Buckingham Palace had already announced in March 2019 that Harry and Meghan would form their own household, splitting from the joint operation with William and Kate. The couple later left working royal life and built a public brand in the United States on interviews, streaming deals, and recurring critiques of the institution they quit.
Even older wounds were repackaged for print. Harry alleged that in 2005 William and Kate encouraged him to wear a Nazi uniform to a fancy-dress party and laughed when they saw it. He also revisited pre-wedding tension with Kate over a bridesmaid-dress dispute involving Princess Charlotte, a row told in conflicting directions over the years. Each retelling kept the tabloid cycle alive. It did not close the account with the family.
Reporting around the couple has also described a move back toward the United Kingdom at the end of August, framed as coming six years after they quit the working monarchy. Harry has separately discussed grief, depression, and a personal rule of not spending more than ten days apart from Meghan and their children, including in a MasterClass session on loss. Private struggle is one thing. Public allegations against living relatives and palace staff are another.
The disputed “apology” story this week followed the same familiar pattern: anonymous sourcing, competing leaks, and no direct statement from the Sussexes clearing the record. One channel floated a sit-down with William and Kate. The counter-source said that was wrong and that no apology is coming.
Serious claims about race, bullying, and bad faith were made on global television and in paid media. Years later, the couple’s camp is still haggling through unnamed intermediaries over whether basic accountability is even on the table.
A family that absorbed the blows is still waiting on a straight apology. On the present reporting, it should not hold its breath.
