'I didn't want to be alive any more': Harry and Meghan describe racism and royal animosity in Oprah interview

Extraordinary exchange paints picture of rift with family as couple says royals questioned how dark Archie's skin would be

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The Duchess of Sussex accused the royal family on Sunday night of fostering an atmosphere of racial hostility so intense that she came close to suicide while pregnant with her first child.

In a series of stunning revelations during a two-hour, hotly-anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan claimed that members of the royal family had openly expressed concerns about how dark her son Archie's skin would be, that they had gone to extraordinary lengths to deny him a royal title, and that they had refused to provide him with security.