Prince Charles “calls in lawyers”
Prince Charles has reportedly “called in lawyers” over allegations that he questioned what colour skin baby Archie would have.
The claim comes from the newly released book, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate and Meghan by US author Christopher Anderson, and is one of several reported on by Page Six over the weekend.
The book alleges that Prince Charles asked his wife Camilla, “I wonder what the children will look like?” in reference to his son Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s then-unborn child.
Anderson goes on to claim that a “somewhat taken aback” Camilla replied: “Well, absolutely gorgeous, I’m certain.”
Prince Charles is alleged to have then said, in a “lowered voice”, “I mean, what do you think their children’s complexion might be?”
Clarence House has slammed the allegations, telling British tabloid The Sun that Anderson’s account “is fiction and not worth further comment”.
The publication reported that the book’s claims had only been seen by Clarence House several days before the book's publication, and that royal lawyers had been alerted.
“The claims are utterly ridiculous,” an insider told the newspaper.
“There is more of a concern that commenting on it will simply sell more books than actually damage Charles’ reputation.”
The allegations come months after Meghan and Harry’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, where Meghan claimed there were “several conversations” with Harry about “how dark Archie’s skin might be when he was born”.
Though she declined to say who Harry had the conversations with, it was later revealed that he told Oprah it didn’t involve the Queen or her late husband, Prince Philip.
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