The couple refused to explicitly name the person in question because it would be “damaging” to them but said it was not Queen Elizabeth or Prince Philip.
The comments led to viewers calling for the royal to be named and a rare public rebuke from Harry’s brother Prince William who insisted “we are not a racist family” to reporters during a school visit in London.
However, former footballer Barnes, who has written a book about racism, claims the question was not surprising.
In an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, he said: ‘You speak to most black people and they’ll say, ‘Yeah, so what?’ I would expect that conversation to be had by the family.
source: express.co.uk