Harry and Meghan’s biographer Omid Scobie said the duchess ‘may have been wrong’ when she said Archie should have been a prince.

However he insisted we ‘don’t know the full story’ about the grievance, which Meghan has suggested could have been linked to concerns about her son’s skin colour.

During the Sussexes’ bombshell interview with Oprah, Meghan told the talk show host that the royals changed conventions so Archie would not have a title.

She also implied that this decision could have been made over concerns about how dark Archie’s skin would be. 

She said: ‘In those months when I was pregnant, all around this same time…. we have in tandem the conversation of “he [Archie] won’t be given security, he’s not going to be given a title,” and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.’

Later, she said: ‘And so, I think even with that convention I’m talking about, while I was pregnant, they said they want to change the convention for Archie.’  

This claim has been one of the many subjects of a monumental backlash that followed the interview. 

Many royal experts have slammed this assertion as untrue because rules that mean Archie cannot be given a title date back to the Queen’s grandfather, King George V, changing customs in 1917. 

Now, Meghan’s friend Omid Scobie has weighed in on the debate admitting Meghan may have been wrong.

However he did insist ‘we don’t know the full story’. 

In a trailer for Discovery UK’s new documentary, called Harry and Meghan: Recollections May Vary, Omid said: ‘If we are only going by what Meghan said to Oprah and what the palace have said so far about the situation with Archie, perhaps one can assume that Meghan was wrong in her interpretation of it.

‘But we also know that there is much more to this story that we don’t know about.’ 

The co-author of the Sussexes’ book, Finding Freedom, has previously told the media that Meghan does not care about the ‘grandeur’ of titles but wanted the Palace to provide Archie with security, which he would only be entitled to as a prince. 

King George V issued letters patent 104 years ago saying only the children who are in the direct line of succession should get titles. 

He stated: ‘The children of any Sovereign of these Realms and the children of the sons of any such Sovereign and the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales shall have and at all times hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of Royal Highness with their titular dignity of Prince or Princess prefixed to their respective Christian names or with their other titles of honour’. 

Under this rule, Prince William’s first son Louis should be the only one of the royal grandchildren who is a prince. 

But just before Louis was born in 2013, the Queen issued her own Letters Patent, giving titles to all of William and Kate’s children. 

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The new film will dissect the dramatic Oprah interview, the couple’s 2017 engagement interview, the 2019 Tom Bradby special on ITV and Prince William’s response to the interview, insisting: ‘We are very much not a racist family’. 

Last night’s trailer for the documentary showed body language experts, psychologists and linguistics discussing all the footage. 

Omid has since tweeted: ‘If you’ve been here long enough you’ll know how I feel about body language experts and the like being used in royal news (TLDR: ridiculous), so you can imagine how disappointed and surprised I was to see myself tonight on a documentary centred around that exact style of analysis.  

‘I try to be careful with interviews I agree to do, so when a production company pitched a considered doc on the impact of the Oprah interview for a network I respect (featuring a diverse lineup of voices), it sounded good. Had I have known the truth, my answer would have been no.’

It comes as William and Kate celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary with a heartwarming video of them and their children. 

On the day of Prince Philip’s funeral, footage showed Kate stepping back to let WIll and Harry chat in the person for the first time since the Sussexes quit as working royals.

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