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Prince Harry 'bigoted' before Meghan Markle with apology over shocking racist slur


Prince Harry last year spoke about his 'bigoted' and 'naive' behaviour before meeting his wife Meghan Markle, addressing a shocking racial slur he made in the past

Prince Harry spoke out about his ‘bigoted’ behaviour before meeting Meghan Markle, saying he was “naive” when it came to his wife’s ethnicity and the public eye. Prince Harry spoke out in a TV interview on CBS around the release of his memoir (Image: Twitter / CBS News) As the BBC reports, in the memoir, Harry writes that when he was growing up, he heard a racist slur used by "lots of people.” He was referencing an incident from the past - in 2009 footage came out which was filmed a few years earlier, during his military training, which showed him shockingly calling his fellow Sandhurst cadet Ahmed Raza Khan "my little P*** friend". The Prince continues in the book, about the cadet in question: "In any case, Ahmed was the person who mattered… I contacted him directly and asked for his forgiveness.

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