Serious concerns over racism within the monarchy have hit the headlines once again, with the Prince of Wales’s godmother – a key royal aide for decades – resigning over remarks made to a black charity campaigner. It comes just over a year-and-a-half after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who quit as senior working royals and moved to the US, painted the institution as racist and uncaring.
Meghan and Harry alleged in their Oprah Winfrey interview that a member of the family – not the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh – made a racist comment about their son, and how the duchess had suicidal thoughts but her approaches to the monarchy for help were turned down. Winfrey was left opened mouthed when the duchess – the first mixed-race member of the modern monarchy – said a fellow royal was worried about how dark their son Archie’s skin tone might be before he was born.
Harry is penning his own tell-all memoir and has promised to write an “accurate and wholly truthful” account of his life, and the couple’s Netflix docuseries which Meghan dubbed as telling “our story” is reported to be airing next week on December 8. The duke admitted in the past that his privileged upbringing as a member of the royal family meant he had no understanding of unconscious racial bias.
