EXCLUSIVE: Audio reveals Kerry Kennedy praising ‘heroic’ Harry and Meghan for fighting ‘structural racism’ within the Royal Family… only for him to deny calling them racist after all

• Kerry Kennedy and RFK Human Rights awarded Harry and Meghan in December 
• In an interview, Kerry said they stood up to ‘structural racism’ within his family 
• The pair accepted an award on stage at the ritzy Ripple of Hope gala afterwards
• Now, Harry says he never accused his family of racism  

New audio reveals Kerry Kennedy praising Harry and Meghan as ‘heroic’ for standing up to ‘structural racism’ within the Royal Family which he now says he never accused them of. 

In December, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were honored at the glitzy RFK Ripple of Hope gala in New York City. They were recognized for their ‘their work on racial justice, mental health, and other social impact initiatives through their Archewell Foundation’. 

Kerry Kennedy, RFK’s daughter and JFK’s niece, spoke glowingly of the couple in interviews and on-stage at the star-studded event, which Harry joked was just another ‘date night’ for the couple. 

No videos from the gala have been released, but in a November interview with Spain’s El Confidencial, which DailyMail.com obtained a recording of, Kerry praised Harry and Meghan as ‘heroic’ for how she said they’d taken a stand against ‘structural racism’ within his family. 

Meghan, Harry and Kerry Kennedy at the Ripple of Hope Award Gala in December. They were honored by Kennedy for their work fighting ‘racial injustice’ 

Comparing them to her human rights-crusading father, she told journalist Gustavo Egusquiza: ‘When my father went to South Africa in 1966, he spoke to an all white audience…. he said that few will have the courage to confront their colleagues and their fellows and their family and their community about the structures of power that they hold.

‘That’s what Meghan Markle and Prince Harry did.  

‘They went to the biggest institution, the longest standing institution in all of British history, and they said: “What we’re doing is wrong. We can’t have this structural racism within this institution.'” 

‘They knew that if they did that, the consequences would be great, that they would be ostracized, that they would lose their family, that they would lose their power structure that people would blame them. 

‘They did it anyway because they felt like they couldn’t live with themselves unless they questioned that authority.

‘I think they are very, very heroic to do that.’ 

Now, those comments are left in the cold with Harry’s correction that neither he nor Meghan called the Royal Family racist. 

Instead, he says they are guilty of an ‘unconscious bias’. 

Kerry Kennedy did not immediately respond to inquiries on Tuesday, nor did representatives for the couple who work at Archewell. 

Egusquiza told DailyMail.com that it was clear from his interview with Kerry that she, like many others, was under the impression that Harry and Meghan considered the Royal Family to be guilty of racism. 

‘She was quite confident in her words about structural racism in the Institution. 

‘I can only guess that after the Oprah interview and without a clear clarification from Meghan or Harry perhaps she was led to believe, like many other people, that there were problems of structural racism in the British Monarchy. 

Kerry compared Harry and Meghan’s fight against ‘structural racism’ in the British monarchy to her father RFK’s speech in South Africa in 1966 where he told young white South Africans to stand up to apartheid 

‘In my opinion the British Royal Family have done a phenomenal job in their fight against racism during decades and I wish this institution continued success,’ he told DailyMail.com. 

In his interview with ITV’s Bradby that aired in the UK on Sunday night, Harry said he didn’t accuse his family of racism in his interview with Oprah Winfrey. 

‘No I didn’t. The British press said that,’ he said.

Bradby was referring to how he and Meghan claimed that an unnamed member of the Royal Family had questioned how dark their son Archie’s skin would be. 

‘There was – there was concern about his skin color,’ Harry told Bradby, but he said he ‘would not’ consider that concern to be racist. 

Prince Harry has denied members of the royal family were accused of racism in he and his wife’s interview with Oprah Winfrey (pictured) 

‘I wouldn’t, not having lived within that family. The difference between racism and unconscious bias, the two things are different.

‘But once it’s been acknowledged, or pointed out to you as an individual, or as an institution, that you have unconscious bias, you therefore have an opportunity to learn and grow from that in order so that you are part of the solution rather than part of the problem. 

Spanish journalist Gustavo Egusquiza told DailyMail.com Kerry Kennedy was ‘quite confident’ about her words

‘Otherwise unconscious bias then moves into the category of racism,’ he said. 

He then went on: ‘I mean what happened to Ngozi Fulani is a very good example of the environment within the institution, and why after our Oprah interview, they said that they were going to bring in a diversity tsar.

‘That hasn’t happened. Everything they said was going to happen hasn’t happened.

‘I’ve always been open to wanting to help them understand their part in it, and especially when you are the monarchy – you have a responsibility, and quite rightly people hold you to a higher standard than others.’ 

‘For me the difference is unconscious bias and racism, but if you are called out for unconscious bias you need to make that right, and you have the opportunity and the choice to.

‘But if you choose not to, then that rapidly becomes something much more serious,’ he said.  

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