2 racist royals?

[drowninginjelly]

So who are the 2 royals who commented on Archie's skin now that Piers Morgan has named them on live tv

Mum of children whose heritage is a quarter black African.

I felt totally fine as did their father. In fact, it was their African side of the family who did it most. They are being brought up to not be offended by this either.

I'm afraid this is the bottom line. Do any of the patriotic, upstanding Meghan-hating monarchists on here realise how bad the Royal Family is making us all look?

Given that they thought parading around locals on a Land Rover in the Caribbean was appropriate I am really not all that surprised it has come to this.

I think you are right.

In Charles’s generation the only marriage that hasn’t ended in divorce is Edward and Sophie’s - and she went through a long sticky patch with the press. They were kinder to her after she almost died, and more recently after she has graduated into a Princess Anne/Duchess of Gloucester type image. However if the entire Royal Family were just quietly getting on with things people would forget about them.

That's what I meant. They didn't want question Harry and his choice because of what happened with Diana/Charles/Camilla. Same reason William wasn't told no to marrying Catherine.

I just think there was probably some concern that Harry and Meghan didn't have the same amount of time as W&C to take it very slow and that was always going to be difficult for Meghan.

I dont think speculating about the appearance of a future baby is racist as pp have said. I don't doubt the RF might be racist but I don't think this is the example that shows it.

I'm from a mixed race family and I agree with @Ilovecleaning. It is absolutely self indulgent shite.

Ok: your original reply should have been ‘ you should be embarrassed’ but I’m not…

It’s incredbky dense to think that a couple speculating on aspects of their babies appearance is the same as other people speculating on the baby’s skin colour. Even more so when it’s the first ever non white person (who has been receiving racial abuse from sections of the public) in your famous all white family. I don’t necessarily think the two royals involved are especially racist, but it’s a really inappropriate thing to do and I’m not surprised Meghan was annoyed.

Exactly. And why on earth is a GP discussing what a baby she will be the Doctor for and who will be 'one quarter Asian' talking about what this baby will look like with her (the Doctor's that is...) relatives.

I despair..

There is a difference between being 'presented' to Black people who have to perform for you and be polite and answer your inane questions and having one in your family. To be fair, I doubt they care about any of us 'normals'. They care about not having too much scrutiny , which is why they do all the hand shaking in the first place. Prince Andrew ( and Harry for that matter) were brought up in the Royal Family. They are absolutely a product of that, just like the rest of them. Andrew more or less publicly said he and people 'in his circles' didnt even notice anyone but his rich friends. They were there to attend to his needs- so barely even human.

While I am not keen on King Charles - for f…k sake - I am mixed race and I wondered what colour skin my children would have. Context is everything but I would be very surprised myself if H&M did not look at each others vastly different looks and wonder basic stuff like would their children have ginger hair, what skin tone etc. wondering what a baby would look does not instantly make you racist there has to be more to it to make it racist.

They aren't racist in a million years. Mm is a nasty piece of work and it all stems from jealousy. Harry is an arrogant idiot.

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Somebody else who knows them personally and inside their heads!
What are the chances lol 😂

It seems obvious that they can’t continue parading around in Landrovers in the Caribbean, but that is because of the underlying reason that they were there at all.

If the British want to pay for a Royal Family I doubt that any one else cares.

I presume GP was grandparent!

Grandparent? I'm assuming?

If I'm given free land-rovers I'm parading around in free land-rovers

I'm so confused by this. I've seen the passage that mentions Charles's name, but what does the book actually say about Kate? Are these the copies that are getting pulled from shelves?

I'm lost! So the GP is also the grandparent? Does that actually happen? Surely the mother of the child who will be 'one quarter asian' would be allocated a different GP in case there were complications

I assumed "GP" was "grandparent"

I despair that you wrote such a condescending/judgemental post when you lack the basic comprehension skills to deduce GP meant Grandparent.

No I think "gp" in this case refers to grandparents not GP (dr) at all

As Maya Angelou would say: “mhmm”.

Really? As a non-white person with very mixed heritage on all sides of the family, I was certainly curious and speculated with excitement on how my children would look. I couldn’t wait to see.

The problem is some people telling others what is acceptable and insensitive without adding ‘in my opinion’. You certainly don’t speak on behalf of me, but you are absolutely entitled to your opinion. But not my spokesperson as a woman of colour.

But would that actually happen? It will be the Mother's Mum or MIL.

Whatever happened in reality, the optics are not good for either the Royal Family or Meghan and Harry. Enough has been revealed with sufficient ambiguity that a seed of doubt has been sewn about both their viewpoints.

It's possible that Harry mangled his recollection of a much earlier non-racist conversation which he then relayed decontextualised to Meghan whilst pregnant.

It's possible that the public personas of King Charles and Kate are different to their private selves.

The general public just don't know.

I guess Omid Scobie is the only winner in all of this?