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The Sunday Times Royal Editor Roya Nikkhah says she thinks it is "right" for members of the Royal Family to "acknowledge" the past - but they should not have to go around apologising.

This comes as Prince Charles, in an address on the mistreatment of Indigenous people in Canada while on tour in the nation, said there must be new ways to “come to terms with the darker and more difficult aspects” of history.

"I was in Belize with the Cambridges, I went to Barbados with the Prince of Wales for the handover, and actually he made a really interesting speech during that tour," Ms Nikkhah told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.

"He talked about acknowledging slavery was abhorrent but he didn't apologise."

She said Prince William did the same in the Caribbean and “didn't apologise" for the past either.

"I don't think it's the role of the Royal Family to go around the world apologising, and they stopped short of that, I think there's a reason for that,” she said.