Tom Bower says Camilla asked Harry if his baby was going to have a ginger Afro. If this is the racism allegation that caused Meghan to leave the royal family, there are better ways to have handled it.The guy who did the gorilla cartoon got sacked. It was a stupid thing to do but I think he'd been drawing loads of celebrities as gorillas and he paid for it with his job. What more could have been done??
I think the commonwealth would have naturally dropped in numbers over time anyway regardless of whether Meghan had stayed in the royal family or not. She's not important enough or high up enough in the rankings to influence a country's decision in that way. If you were in Jamaica voting on whether or not to keep the monarch as head of state would your decision really be influenced by Harry having married Meghan?? I'm Irish and I wouldn't choose to join the commonwealth even if the whole of the royal family married Irish people.
I don't fully believe the racism allegations on Oprah. Meghan and Harry gave 2 very different accounts of what happened. Meghan said it was conversations plural while she was pregnant and Harry said it was one conversation before they were even married. You wouldn't get that mixed up about the timeline of a conversation like that. I believe someone must have said something but it could have been exaggerated the same way she exaggerated the fire in Archie's room. She's lied too much and now she's not credible.
They are constantly exaggerating and dramatising things.
Camilla was caught with a golliwog doll in her possession in 2008. I think it's up to black Britons to decide how racist that is. Per Guardian link, there's a range of opinion.
It's good the gorilla cartoonist got fired, but the deficit, or question, would be whether or not the KP press infrastructure and the Queen herself should have responded to the thread of racist coverage.
It seems cataclysmic they should not have, a lost opportunity for moral leadership in UK's increasingly diverse society. I'm not sure Markle could have disciplined herself to be the commonwealth ambassador the Queen made her, or the diplomat of the crown in the Windrush scandal, but the lack of any initiative on the part of the monarchy seems a tragic non-confrontation which was sadly very much in the Queen's style.
Some people have said the private sec, Christopher Geidt, that Charles and Andrew unseated in a palace coup, could and would have handled all of this Sussex matter much more vigorously and adroitly. Finding a place for Markle and her under-employed husband.
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Sir Edward Young blamed for ‘failing to find right role for Meghan’
The Queen’s closest adviser should bear his share of the responsibility for the crisis facing the royal family in the wake of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, a royal biographer has said.Sir Edward Young, the Queen’s private secretary, lacked the imagination to find a r
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