Princess Michael of Kent has apologised after wearing a blackamoor brooch to the Queen’s Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace, attended by Prince Harry’s fiancee Meghan Markle, who is of mixed race by virtue of her white father and African American mother.
The royal, who is married to the Queen’s cousin, was photographed wearing the brooch depicting a black figure on her coat as she arrived for the annual gathering on Wednesday. She was later criticised online for wearing “racist jewellery”.
Bollocks! It’s a brooch. Not a particularly attractive one, but it’s merely a brooch. It is not racist and only a cretin would claim that it is. And for flying fuck’s sake, will people stop apologising to these scumbags?
The princess, whose father was an SS officer…
What’s that got to do with the price of fish? Oh, yes, that’s it, guilty by association. The Grauniad using smear tactics. How fucking low can you sink? Scum.
The Professional Offendatrons might, this time, just for once, have a point. I’m guessing a chunk of the Royal Family aren’t overly happy with Harry’s choice of ‘life partner’ (She’s American FFS!) Princess MoK has been around long enough to know exactly what wearing that broach would signify to the rest of “The Firm”. The Royals do nothing, say nothing, wear nothing until they have twice thought long and hard about the image they present to the world and, in this case, each other.
Didn’t Brenda upset all the little BrexSSHiteurs recently by wearing something (a hat?) that looked a little like the EU flag…if one stood on one leg, in the right light and squinted? Let us not forget we live in a country where people (myself included,I’m ashamed to admit) rejoice about the passports changing colour.
@The Blocked Dwarf
No, they don’t. If it was intentional, so what? Freedom of speech & expression.
HM EIIR dislikes Republicans and made that clear by making future King William the Baron of Carrickfergus on his wedding day.
The Royal family show their thoughts in subtle ways, as it should be. Don’t like it? Tough.
imho I think Harry & Megan will not last.
Humour:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5207683/QUENTIN-LETTS-imagines-Christmas-Sandringham.html
“The Royal family show their thoughts in subtle ways” Indeed, something Princess MoK seems to have forgotten. Only a KKK hood might have been more blatant. Whatever views MoK holds about darkies is her own affair and yes she has the same right to express her views as we all do or don’t.But for shame Mok, for shame! IF you are going to insult a fellow soon-to-be-royal at least do it with a modicum of taste.
As to whether Harry and Megan will last, I neither know nor care.
FFS What standard of reporting is this? What’s her house worth?
I am by no means an “offendatron” but please let’s not pretend that the deliberate selection of this jewellery by Princess Michael of Kent, for an event where she was to be introduced to a mixed race future member of the Royal Family, is anything other than a barely concealed jibe.
And I for one hopes that Prince Harry, privately, puts Princess Michael squarly in her place for this obvious insult.
+1 Agree
Princess Michael does have form for going out of her way to offend people. Remember she once told an overloud party of Black diners to go back to the colonies (something she denied). The Queen has referred to her as Our Val (i.e. a Valkyrie because she’s so tall), and that she’s a bit too grand for the rest of the Royal Family. So I think this was a deliberate slight – it was the first time she had met Markle and the brooch was hardly subtle.
It was just a brooch. Unless you poke someone with the pin, it can cause no harm. Whether it was deliberate or not is irrelevant. Offence is taken not given. If it was intended, ignoring it takes away its power. If it was not intended, ignoring it is again, the best approach.
Of course, I am not defending the faux outrage, just saying that the Princess was guilty of bad manners.
If she was, then it’s an internal matter.