Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, released this week, details his relationship with his brother Prince William, the tragic passing of his mother Princess Diana, and his family’s treatment of his wife Meghan Markle. In a Jan. 9 interview with Michael Strahan’s Good Morning America, he also discussed race, saying Markle is not visibly Black, but the way the U.K. press treated her was clearly about race.

“My wife is not visibly black but that's who she is,” Prince Harry said. “The way that they [the media] speak about her, the way that they treat her is incredibly relatable to everybody else of color."

He also said his family could benefit from what he has learned about race since meeting his wife, "I think the same process that I went through regarding my own unconscious bias would be hugely beneficial to them… It's not racism, but unconscious bias if not confronted, if not acknowledged, if not learned and grown from, that can then move into racism. And the way that I understand it is that we all want to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem."

Harry also said in a 60 Minutes interview that he has not spoken to his brother and his father King Charles in months, and he was especially upset that his family never publicly defended his wife even when lies were being printed about her. Additionally, he accused his family of being jealous of the initial popularity Markle received from the British public.

In January 2020, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced that they would "step back" from being senior British royals, mainly due to the racist and sexist British press relentlessly attacking Meghan. The British media were using racist undertones in the coverage of their relationship. As early as November 2016, the Daily Mail ran a story describing Markle's "humble" upbringing with the headline, "Harry's girl is (almost) straight outta Compton: Gang scarred home of her mother revealed — so will he be dropped by for tea?"

See the Good Morning America interview below: