- Ndileka Mandela was speaking on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
- She compared Sussexes' situation to her grandfather fleeing arranged marriage
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had to 'find their own voice' like Nelson Mandela did when he ran away from an arranged marriage, the South African titan's granddaughter says.
Ndileka Mandela said the Sussexes should be given 'room to voice out whatever their misgivings are'.
The activist made the comments today on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme when asked if she thought the couple had been victims of racism by the Royal family.
It comes after a 'translation error' saw King Charles and the Duchess of Cambridge being named in the Dutch version of Omid Scobie's new book Endgame as the senior royals who allegedly discussed Archie's skin colour before he was born.
Publishers pulled the book from the shelves in the Netherlands but Piers Morgan named the two royals on his Talk TV show earlier this week in stunt that reportedly left Buckingham Palace 'utterly dismayed'.
Asked if she believed Harry and Meghan were victims of racism, Ms Mandela, 58, compared it to when her grandfather fled to Johannesburg in 1941 to avoid an arranged marriage.
She told the programme: 'I believe that Harry and Meghan had to find their own voice, in a similar way that granddad had to find his own voice when he had to run away from an arranged marriage. So they should be given, like any other person, room to voice out whatever their misgivings are.
'I cannot speak to whether Harry and Meghan's children have been discriminated. I don't have first-hand information of that.
'However, I can say that he should be allowed to voice out whatever it is that he wants to voice out and to choose his own path. Had granddad not chosen his own path when he ran away from an arranged marriage, we would not have the South Africa that we talk about today.
'So people should be allowed to present different journeys and should be allowed to walk different journeys in life.'
Harry and Meghan have remained silent since King Charles and Kate were outed.
Morgan said on his show that 'at this point the deafening silence of Harry and Meghan becomes a little more than deafening - it becomes shameful'.
He added: 'They usually race to condemn and denounce any press reports they dislike.
'So why did they remain so silent about Omid Scobie's lies?'
The translator's claims appear to contradict Scobie's who told ITV's This Morning that he did not include the names of the two royals accused of discussing the skin colour of Harry and Meghan's son Archie when he submitted the completed manuscript to his publisher.
'I never submitted a book that had those names in it,' Scobie insisted today.
In an interview with ITV's This Morning, which started with a denial he is 'Meghan's mouthpiece', Omid offered no mea culpa or apology for the error and when asked if he was upset he said:
'I am obviously frustrated. I wouldn't say I am upset about it'.
Asked if the Dutch farrago was a 'stunt to sell books' in the face of poor reviews, he said: 'I wish it was the case' and that 'an investigation is underway'.
'I had never submitted a book that had their names in it, so I can only talk about my version', he said. 'I wrote and edited the English version of the book with one publisher. That then gets licensed to other publishers. I can't speak Italian, German, French, Dutch or any of the other languages that it's come out in'.
He also said that he and Endgame had been unfairly criticised. He said: 'I knew this book would be controversial, whether it's about race or the Palace's relationship with the press. I never expected it to be presented fairly'. He said: 'There have been unfair attacks on me.'
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