The woman victim of racism spoke at Buckingham Palace and gave details of the scandal

The controversy over racist comments by a queen’s lady-in-waiting comes at the worst time for the British royal family, which is seeking to modernize its image following allegations by Prince Harry and the forthcoming publication of his potentially explosive memoirs.

Prince William, 40, older brother of Harry and heir to the British throne, had to part with one of his three godmothers on Wednesday after susan hussey83, made offensive comments to a black British woman during a reception the day before at the Buckingham Palace.

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His father, Carlos III, precipitated the resignation of Hussey, who was for six decades a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II and one of her most trusted aidesas well as a friend of the new 74-year-old monarch, who appointed her to accompany his wife, the queen consort Camila.

Lady Susan Hussey in an image from October 14, 2019. (Photo by Paul Edwards / AFP) (PAUL EDWARDS/)

When Hussey began offensively questioning the activist about her origins ngozi fulaniborn and raised in the United KingdomShe assures that she tried to give him the benefit of the doubt.

“But I soon understood that it had nothing to do with his ability to understand,” he explained to BBC radio on Thursday.

Hussey repeatedly asked Fulani where she was “really” fromrefusing to accept her explanation that she was British.

“He was really trying to get me to renounce my British nationality”denounced fulaniwhile many other black Britons shared similarly demeaning experiences on social media and traditional media.

Ngozi Fulani (left) took part in a visit to Buckingham Palace led by Queen Consort Camilla. (AP / Kin Cheung).

“Really shocking”

The Labor MP Diane Abbottthe first black woman to sit in the House of Commons in the 1980s, He found it “really shocking” that the identity of a black British woman could be called into question in this way.

However, he told Times Radio that Buckingham has made “advances” on diversity in the last decade.

Before “they would have said that she (fulani) was too sensitive and simply discarded” his complaint, Abbott said.

The palace seems to have learned its lesson, especially since last year, when Harry38, and his mixed-race wife Meghan41, have accused an unidentified royal of worrying about the skin color of their unborn child.

Guillermo replied: “We are not a racist family at all”, but Elizabeth II affirmed that the matter would be dealt with “privately”.

The royal house has also started publishing data on the ethnic representation of its staff, acknowledging that it needs to improve.

Was Meghan avenged?

In a tense relationship for years, Guillemo and Harry are both on the east coast of the United States this week, the first to present their “Earthshot” environmental awards in Boston and the second for a gala in New York for the Robert Kennedy human rights foundation.

His daughter, Kerry Kennedy, believes that Harry and Meghan has taken a “heroic stance” against the “structural racism” of the British monarchy.

But to their detractors, the couple are earning a significant income after leaving the royal family in 2020.

Netflix will premiere a documentary about them on December 8, the couple’s biographer announced Thursday as the streaming giant released a short trailer.

And the prince will publish in January a memoir titled “Spare” (replacement), which the royal family is looking forward to with apprehension due to its potentially explosive revelations.

British public opinion had turned against the Duke and Duchess of Sussex… until the Hussey scandal broke.

When Meghan entered the royal family, she was in charge of educating her in protocol, a role that Hussey also played for William’s mother and HarryPrincess Diana.

According to a biographer, the former American actress turned him down.

Now “the chuckle from California is that of a duchess trying not to burst out laughing ‘I told you so,’” commentator Trevor Phillips wrote in The Times.

“A mentality that colour-codes British identity is not only ugly and anachronistic, it is unmistakably racist,” he added.

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