Today show: Brooke Boney says it’s not hard to believe Meghan Markle

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex sparked a Palace witch-hunt on Sunday when they claimed in their interview with Oprah Winfrey that a member of the royal family had made a racist comment about their son, Archie, ahead of his birth.

While many royal supporters have questioned the allegation, others are convinced Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are telling the truth – and one of them is Indigenous Today show entertainment reporter Brooke Boney.

Brooke said the accusation that a member of the British royal family made a racially insensitive remark wasn’t far-fetched in her opinion.

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‘Is it so hard to believe?’ Indigenous Today show reporter Brooke Boney (left) said the accusation that a member of the British royal family made a racially insensitive remark wasn’t far-fetched. Pictured on Tuesday with (L-R) Karl Stefanovic, Allison Langdon and Alex Cullen

As The Today panel debated the plausibility of Meghan and Harry’s extraordinary claims, Brooke asked: ‘Is it so hard to believe?’

‘Look at some of the stuff that this family has said in the past, go and Google stuff that Prince Philip has said, it’s not that surprising,’ she added. 

While Brooke singled out remarks previously made by Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Harry did make it clear to Oprah that his 99-year-old grandfather wasn’t the relative who remarked on his son Archie’s skin colour.

Today co-anchor Allison Langdon responded: ‘It’s caused great debate… some of it was still a little tone-deaf, you’ve come from a position of privilege and it was a lot of playing the victim, but a lot of that is also understandable.’ 

Prince Philip infamously made a number of gaffes, some of a racially insensitive nature, before stepping down from royal engagements in 2017. 

Shock: Prince Harry and wife Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle (both left) sparked a Palace witch hunt on Monday by claiming to Oprah Winfrey (right) that a member of the royal family made a racist comment about their son Archie ahead of his birth

Shock: Prince Harry and wife Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle (both left) sparked a Palace witch hunt on Monday by claiming to Oprah Winfrey (right) that a member of the royal family made a racist comment about their son Archie ahead of his birth

'Go and Google stuff that Prince Philip has said, it's not that surprising': Brooke said some of the comments made by the retired Duke of Edinburgh during his time in the public had been rather questionable. Pictured in 2018

 ‘Go and Google stuff that Prince Philip has said, it’s not that surprising’: Brooke said some of the comments made by the retired Duke of Edinburgh during his time in the public had been rather questionable. Pictured in 2018

Philip’s questionable one-liners

‘You are a woman, aren’t you?’ Said to a Kenyan woman presenting him with a small gift in 1984  

‘If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes,’ he told a British student in China in 1986 

‘If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it,’ he said, addressing a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986 

‘Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?’ he asked an islander while in the Cayman Islands in 1994

‘You managed not to get eaten, then?’ he said to a student who had been trekking across Papua New Guinea in 1998 

‘Do you still throw spears at each other?’ he asked Aboriginal Elder William Brin in 2002, while on a visit to Australia with the Queen  

‘You look like you’re ready for bed!’ he told the President of Nigeria in 2003, who was dressed in traditional robes

He used the phrase ‘slitty eyes’ while describing Chinese people in 1986, and that same year claimed Cantonese-speaking people would eat any animal.

In 2002, while on tour in Australia with the Queen, he asked Aboriginal Elder William Brin if Indigenous people still threw spears at one another.

This comment was deemed inappropriate and rude by the public at the time.

Not involved: Oprah revealed on Monday morning that behind the scenes, Prince Harry told her it was neither The Queen nor Prince Philip (both pictured in 2016) who had concerns over Archie's skin color before he was born, but he would not reveal the identity of who did

Not involved: Oprah revealed on Monday morning that behind the scenes, Prince Harry told her it was neither The Queen nor Prince Philip (both pictured in 2016) who had concerns over Archie’s skin color before he was born, but he would not reveal the identity of who did

The Sussexes alleged in their interview with Oprah on Sunday there had been a ‘conversation’ between Prince Harry and an unnamed relative before his son Archie’s birth about how ‘dark’ the child’s skin would be given the fact Meghan is mixed race.

The LA-based couple refused to say which member of the Royal family had had those conversations with Harry because it would be ‘too damaging to them’. 

Oprah revealed on Monday morning that Harry had told her privately after the interview that neither The Queen nor Prince Philip had raised the ‘concerns’ over Archie’s skin colour – but still would not reveal the identity of who did.

Who are they protecting? Meghan said there were 'several conversations' with Harry about Archie's skin tone, and 'what that would mean or look like',but the couple refused to disclose who made the comments to them

Who are they protecting? Meghan said there were ‘several conversations’ with Harry about Archie’s skin tone, and ‘what that would mean or look like’,but the couple refused to disclose who made the comments to them

This leaves only a handful of people it could be, including the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as well as the Duchess of Cornwall. 

Palace insiders have reacted with horror to the accusation, saying it was deeply unfair to throw around such a damaging claim, potentially libelling a number of senior royals who are unable to defend themselves.

Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah was a ratings hit in Australia when it aired on Channel 10 on Monday night, and can be watched now on 10 Play.

History in the making: The Sussexes have been vocal supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, with American duchess Meghan becoming the first mixed race person to marry a British senior royal in modern history

History in the making: The Sussexes have been vocal supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, with American duchess Meghan becoming the first mixed race person to marry a British senior royal in modern history

Watch in on 10Play: There were several other bombshell claims and reveals within the Harry and Meghan's 90-minute Oprah tell-all - including they are pregnant again with a baby girl

Watch in on 10Play: There were several other bombshell claims and reveals within the Harry and Meghan’s 90-minute Oprah tell-all – including they are pregnant again with a baby girl