OH FFS.
I have a horrible feeling people will attempt to overshadow Earthshot and W&C with this.
Chris Ship - the toe rag of the first order - who will be covering Earthshot in Boston, has released this story
(not including a link to his tweet because I don't want to give him any clicks).
Sistah Space is a specialist support centre for women of African/Caribbean heritage who've suffered abuse. A worthy cause.
This transcript is a screenshot from the above tweet:
One of the top comments...
Someone replied to Shouty Shol saying "Lady SH" is Susan Hussey who 'helped' 43. (Great, so now, with the quotation marks, they're going to start harassing Lady Susan as the racist that HMTQ protected or something?)
In other words, the squaddies helped on by Chris Ship, those twats will going after an elderly lady who has JUST LOST a long-standing friend.
THE.....
Then this
Talk about shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.
By including initials everyone is assuming.
If there was an incident (not saying I don't believe any of it, but I'm not going to jump on any bandwagon, especially when Ship, that slimy toad, is involved. Also, older generations have a different way with words, would one of HMTLQ's Ladies In Waiting, one of her most trusted people, someone used to meeting many people from all walks of life, say something intentionally racist?), the usual thing would be to contact the Palace and say "um guys it wasn't a good time, here's what happened" surely, not tweet about it in such a way...
Have a tweet primed if your contact is ignored.
Here's the talking point for all the squaddies while Earthshot is going on.
"wE aLl KnEw ThEy ArE rAcIsTs!!111!!!!"
EDIT
In the time it took for me to quickly read through the above having written it, this has happened:
Richard Eden & Roya Nikkhah have both tweeted that Lady Susan has stepped down.
The squaddies are going nutso. And I've seen many comments along the lines of "poor 43" and "isn't Susan W's godmother?!? Not racist family, lol"