Prince Harry Was 'So Ashamed' of Nazi Uniform, Says Royals Have Racial Bias

Prince Harry told his Netflix documentary: "In this family sometimes you're part of the problem rather than part of the solution," as he addressed his Nazi uniform scandal.

The Duke of Sussex talked about his biggest scandal during the third episode of Harry & Meghan, which addressed issues relating to race.

Harry was on the front page of U.K. tabloid The Sun after wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party in 2005. He apologized at the time, but his latest remarks are the first time he has spoken about the incident since it happened.

Harry said: "It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I felt so ashamed afterwards. All I wanted to do was make it right.

"I sat down and spoke to the Chief Rabbi in London, which had a profound impact on me. I went to Berlin and spoke to a Holocaust survivor.

"I could have just ignored it and got on and probably made the same mistakes over and over again in my life. But I learnt from that."

Harry also described how "in this family" there is "a huge level of unconscious bias," in comments that immediately followed a discussion of Princess Michael of Kent wearing a Blackamoor brooch to one of Meghan Markle's first royal events in December 2017.

Harry said: "In this family, sometimes you're part of the problem rather than part of the solution and there is a huge level of unconscious bias.

"The thing with unconscious bias is it's actually no one's fault but once it's been pointed out or identified within yourself, you then need to make it right.

"It's education, it's awareness and it's a constant work in progress for everyone including me."

Historian Robert Lacey wrote about the Nazi uniform in his book Battle of Brothers, describing how Prince William had been present when Harry wore it.

Lacey wrote: "As for Harry, he chose a khaki-colored uniform that, he later explained, he selected for the sandiness of the shirt: he thought it complemented his coloring.

"The trouble was that the shirt's left sleeve was encircled by a bright red and white armband bearing a stark, black Nazi swastika.

"If there was one incident in the youth of Prince Harry that would be taken to represent his wild, foolish and totally unjudged side, it was that Nazi costume."

However, Harry said his time in the British Army, which saw him serve on the front line in Afghanistan twice, helped to show him a different world outside the palace, with his fellow soldiers acting as his second family.

He said: "My 10 years in the army, it gave me the lived experience that other members of my family wouldn't have had.

"Two tours in Afghanistan, flying Apache helicopters on a military base means that you grow up pretty fast. Jeez, I went to war twice.

"The people that I met and the lifelong friends made, that was my second family at that point. There's still scars left open from my mum's awesomeness, to put it mildly."