Prince William says British royal family “not racist” on Thursday after his brother Enrique denounced conversations about the color of his skin that his children will have with Meghan Markle, an American with a black mother and a white father.
“We are not a racist family at all,” said William, 38, second in the British throne during a visit to a school in a multiracial neighborhood in East London.
Harry and Meghan explained their alienation from the British royal family and their exile in California in an explosive television interview broadcast on Sunday in the United States.
The 39-year-old former actress and her 36-year-old husband, sixth in line to the throne, claimed unsustainable media pressure, racism Yes lack of support from the royal family as reasons for his departure from the monarchy.
“We are not a racist family at all”
But most of all, what left star interviewer Oprah Winfrey speechless was when the couple claimed that an unidentified member of the royal family had conversations with Harry about the skin color their children would have, because Meghan is mixed.
These harmful allegations have rekindled a heated debate about Britain’s colonial past and racism, started a year ago by the movement’s protests Black life matters.
Queen Elizabeth II, 94, said on Tuesday that “the whole family is saddened to learn how difficult the last years have been for Harry and Meghan.”
The monarch also assured that he took the accusations of racism “very seriously” and promised that they would be treated “by the family in private”, but specified that “memories may vary” depending on the person.
This careful choice of words “suggests that the family does not agree with everything the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have said,” the Conservative newspaper said. Daily Telegraph.
AFP
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