A racist incident erupts at Buckingham Palace between a lady-in-waiting and the head of a charity for Afro-Caribbean victims. Now the royal couple allegedly wants to talk to the person concerned about the incident. However, she claims that she knows nothing of a further invitation.
“Never complain, never explain” – this golden rule of Queen Elizabeth (1926-2022) wants King Charles III. apparently not maintained. At least the monarch reacted quickly to a racist incident at an event at Buckingham Palace and wants to deal with the event. As the “Mail on Sunday” writes, Charles and his wife Camilla now allegedly want to invite Ngozi Fulani again to the palace to talk to each other about the subject.
The head of a British charity for Afro-Caribbean victims made it public on Instagram last week after a UN event at the palace that she had been repeatedly questioned by an elderly woman about where she “really” came from. According to the Guardian, the woman touched her hair to see her name tag and asked where her “people” were from, despite telling her several times that she was British.
In an “Independent” interview, Fulani explained that the problem is “bigger than a person. It’s institutional racism”. She added: “I was in shock after it happened and anyone who knows me knows I can’t take nonsense like that.”
It later emerged that the interlocutor was the Queen’s long-time lady-in-waiting, Lady Susan Hussey. Hussey, a godmother to Prince William, subsequently apologized and resigned. The palace said what happened was “unacceptable and deeply regrettable.” A spokesman for Prince William said racism “has no place in our society”.
Speaking to British TV show Good Morning Britain, Ngozi Fulani said she was unaware of another invitation to Buckingham Palace. However, should it come, she would like to sit down with the royals to discuss the incident.
