The Queen in urgent crisis talks with Prince Charles and Prince William after Harry and Meghan interview

The Royal Family has been left “reeling” after Harry and Meghan’s explosive interview, with the Queen now locked in emergency talks.

The Queen is locked in crisis talks after the Royal Family was left “reeling” by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s bombshell interview with Oprah.

Buckingham Palace is yet to officially respond to the tell-all that saw Meghan Markle break down in tears as she and Harry revealed the pressures they faced within “the institution”.

Senior members of the Royal Family – including the Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William – were said to be locked in crisis talks over the Oprah interview, The Sun reports.

And The Times reported overnight that the Queen had refused to sign off on a prepared statement – with the monarch reportedly wanting more time to consider her response.

A royal insider told the Daily Mail that Harry had pressed the “nuclear button on his own family” with the two-hour interview.

Other sources have noted there was a sense of “intense personal shock and sadness” – with the Palace said to be paralysed with “horror and dismay”.

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Queen Elizabeth II is reportedly in crisis talks over how to respond to Harry and Meghan’s explosive interview. Picture: Ben Stansall/AFP

A source said: “There’s a lot people want to say but no one wins with a tit-for-tat battle.”

Concerns have now been raised that this week, all senior members of the Royal Family are expected to carry out public engagements – where they could face questions about the Oprah interview.

A senior royal source told The Telegraph: “The institution needs to lead the response to this. What a sad, terrible morning.”

Meghan, 39, broke down in tears during the explosive interview with Oprah – revealing she had been left suicidal after joining the Royal Family and that she had faced racism within the institution.

Recounting how she sobbed in her husband Prince Harry’s arms, she said: “I just didn’t see a solution. I didn’t want to be alive anymore.”

The Duchess of Sussex said there had been conversations with Prince Harry and a “family” member about their unborn son and what colour his skin would be – and “what that would mean or look like”.

But the 39-year-old declined to say who had started those conversations, saying it would be “damaging” for them.

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Prince Harry, 36, said he would “never share” the full details of the discussion but that he was asked at the start of his relationship with Meghan, how dark the skin of their children might be.

Oprah Winfrey today revealed it was not the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh who made the comment about Archie’s skin.

But the host had been left shocked by the revelations by Meghan, with the Duchess claiming the Firm had not wanted her son to be a prince and that he would not receive security.

Meghan said: “In those months when I was pregnant, all around same time: we have in tandem he won’t be given security, a title and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.”

Oprah was left stunned and replied: “What? There is a conversation … hold on. Hold up. Hold up. Stop right now.”

Asked whether there were concerns that her child would be “too brown” and that would be a problem, Meghan said: “If that is the assumption you are making, that is a pretty safe one.”

Prince Harry confirmed he had been involved in the conversations but said he would never share the details.

He said: “At the time it was awkward but I was a bit shocked.”

Oprah had last night introduced the interview by confirming that “no subject is off limits” and that Meghan had not been paid for the chat.

And the US chat show queen quizzed Meghan over the decision that son Archie would not be a prince.

However, Meghan said of the lack of title: “It was not our decision to make.”

Meghan – who is now pregnant with a little girl, added: “That was when they were saying they didn’t want him to be a prince or a princess.”

Under rules brought in by George V in 1917, only the children and grandchildren of a sovereign have the automatic right to be a prince or princess, and use the HRH title.

Archie is the great-grandchild of the Queen, but will be a grandchild of the ruling sovereign when Charles becomes King, and thus would then be entitled to the titles.

Under George V’s declaration, of the Queen’s great-grandchildren only Prince George is actually entitled to be a prince because he is in the direct line of succession to the throne as the eldest son of Prince William, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

However, ahead of George’s birth, the Queen stepped in to issue letters patent, ensuring that Kate and William’s children would have the prince and princess titles.

They are the children of a future monarch, but Archie is not.

Prince Harry insisted he would never blindside his grandmother with an interview – saying he had too much respect for the Queen.

However Meghan and Harry claimed the 94-year-old did snub them by cancelling an overnight stay at Sandringham amid Megxit.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and is republished with permission.