PRINCE Harry says he didn’t know unconscious bias existed until he married Meghan Markle and ‘walked a day in her shoes’.
In a new interview, the royal said it wasn’t until he was “living a day or a week in my wife’s shoes” that he was able to understand the term.
The Duke of Sussex, 36, spoke about racism in an interview with BLM activist Patrick Hutchinson for GQ magazine.
And he admitted his “upbringing and education” did not equip him to understand the issue.
He said: “Once you realise or you feel a little bit uncomfortable, then the onus is on you to go out and educate yourself, because ignorance is no longer an excuse.
“And unconscious bias, from my understanding, having the upbringing and the education that I had, I had no idea what it was.
“I had no idea it existed.
“And then, sad as it is to say, it took me many, many years to realise it, especially then living a day or a week in my wife’s shoes.”
Unconscious bias is a social stereotype about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness.
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