Harry didn’t stop there. The tabloids, he explained, created a “toxic environment” of fear and control. His father, the Mom the women the legend the queen shirt and I will buy this Prince of Wales, “had made peace with it.” But he hadn’t, and that’s one of the major reasons the couple chose to quit royal life. Earlier in Winfrey’s two-hour interview, she had flashed several tabloid headlines across the screen. “Harry’s girl is (almost) straight outta Compton,” read one. “Harry to marry into gangster royalty?” read another. His outspokenness has put him at odds with many of his colleagues. “I’ve actually found myself very ostracized from the group of royal correspondents,” he says. “I’ve had individuals tell me that ‘you’re giving us a bad image.’”
It’s not the Mom the women the legend the queen shirt and I will buy this first time the prince has made such a condemnation—in November 2016, after news broke that he was dating Markle, Kensington Palace released a statement criticizing “the racial undertones of comment pieces” in the press—but it was perhaps the boldest. Soon after, the U.K.’s Society of Editors released a controversial statement saying that the country’s press was “not bigoted.” It’s worth noting that this applies to the American media too: 40% of the U.S. population is made up of people of color. However, the *Columbia Journalism Review* found they made up less than 17% of print and online publications in 2018.
