By Molly Claire Goddard
8:11am PST, Dec 19, 2025
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While appearing on
Katie Couric's
YouTube show, journalist
Tina Brown claimed Prince Harry made a strange remark when introducing
Prince Archie to the late
Jane Goodall. "Jane Goodall, before she died, I had a lunch with her, and she said that she went to see… she was one of the only people outside the family that went to see Archie when he was born," Brown said. "And Harry said, 'This is my little African child.' It's going to be my child who, you know — wild child, essentially. They were going to have this time together, living a life off the grid as it were. She said she was absolutely stunned when he chose the life that he did."
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Afterwards, Prince Harry's spokesperson shut down Tina Brown's claim. "The Duke of Sussex has never said anything remotely resembling what is being claimed. Tina Brown knows exactly what she's doing by inventing these words and attributing them to a highly respected woman who is deceased and unable to correct the record," they said in a statement to
People.
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Tina Brown later clarified her remarks. "On Katie Couric's podcast yesterday (Wednesday, December 17th), I recounted what Jane Goodall said to me in June of this year about Prince Harry. She remembered affectionately Harry saying when [Prince] Archie was born, 'I want you to come and meet my African Child,'" she told
People. "She actually said, 'Africa child,' but I was speaking too quickly. Aside from that inadvertent mistake, everything else in Ms. Goodall's conversation with me, I rendered accurately."
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Prince Harry is outraged by the strange comment from Tina Brown, according to a source who spoke to
Tom Sykes'
The Royalist Substack. "He didn't say it. It's not fair on Harry, but it's also not fair on Jane Goodall, because Jane is not around to be able to confirm it. It feels like [Brown] is now rowing back on it anyway," the insider claimed.
