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Alison Hammond has asked the two senior royals who, according to the Dutch version of Omid Scobie’s Endgame, are alleged to have raised ‘concerns’ about Prince Archie’s skin colour, to take accountability.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle first made the claims during an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021.
During their discussion, they claimed there had been ‘concerns and conversations about how dark his [son Archie] skin might be when he’s born.’
At the time, they originally chose not to name them amid fears it would ‘damage’ their reputation.
However, in a Dutch translation of Scobie’s book Endgame that went on sale in the Netherlands, it named two royals. Its publisher was forced to pull copies from shelves after it was claimed the mistake had been due to an error in translation.
Metro.co.uk is not naming them.
Alison spoke passionately about the issue (Picture: This Morning)
While hosting This Morning, Alison, 48, told viewers that she believes the alleged royals should acknowledge the reports.
‘I think it’s the word racist. Nobody wants to be linked to the word racist,’ said Alison.
‘The thing is if you don’t acknowledge that something you said or did, or could be construed as racist, where do we go?
‘The thing is if you don’t acknowledge that something you said or did, or could be construed as racist, where do we go?’ (Picture: This Morning)
‘If you say “That’s not racist, I’m not racist” we can’t learn from there. That’s where it stops.’
Vanessa Feltz suggested that they put out a statement where they provide context of the comments, and apologise to which Alison said: ‘Yeah.’
She added: ‘They could say on reflection, maybe that wasn’t the right thing to say.’
Alison spoke eloquently on the subject (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Vanessa, 61, also spoke about a conspiracy theory that the names were included to boost book sales.
‘I’m not a conspiracy theorist in general but the people who have suggested that there is a possibility that it might have been done accidentally, on purpose pumping a few copies in Holland to fuel sales of the book,’ she began.
‘My gosh, it’s the front page of virtually every paper all over the world. I’m not saying it’s true but it doesn’t look as ridiculous as some of these theories often do.’
Omid was interviewed on This Morning (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Omid appeared on the ITV daytime show on November 30, where he was grilled by Craig Doyle and Alison.
‘You don’t accidentally put in a name, and you can’t put it down to a mistranslation, can you?’ said Craig, 52.
‘It does feel like a stunt to sell books.’
‘I wish it was the case,’ the author answered, as Craig asked: ‘How did it happen?’
‘It’s still being investigated right now. I wrote and edited the English version of the book with one publisher. That then gets licensed to other publishers. I obviously can’t speak Italian, German, French, Dutch, or any of the other languages that come out, so the only time you hear about the book is once it comes out in the public domain.’
Omid said that he was ‘as frustrated as everyone else’ over the controversy that has transpired.
This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV.
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She wants some accountability.