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Supporters of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle also suggested that William’s comments showed the California-based former senior royals were right to allege that members of the monarchy are racist.Īccording to the Washington Post, Bernice King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter and a well-known race columnist for a British newspaper. As of Thursday, people continued to excoriate William because his ancestors and other leaders of the British empire were responsible for wars and repression in other parts of the world, notably in Africa and Asia.įollowing the initial media reports, with the Africa and Asia comparison, a range of people weighed in, including historians, CNN’s Jake Tapper, Rev. Or, the backlash has grown more muddled and complicated, because of the earlier, misleading reporting and because his “alien” comment still raises questions about racial bias, Britain’s colonial past and European history. Transcript in the thread below 👇 /2fGlgFCDtBīut even if William was misquoted, the furor continues. Our camera was there so in the interests of fact and accuracy (important things), here is what he said. There has been lots of reporting about Prince William’s words about #Ukraine️ during a visit yesterday. For our generation, it’s very alien to see this in Europe. The news every day, it’s just, it’s almost unfathomable.
William, 39, began by talking about how their three young children had asked about what’s happening in Ukraine. In the video, William is seen standing besides his wife, Kate Middleton, and both are wearing yellow and blue pins to show solidarity with Ukraine. The Washington Post, Newsweek and other outlets issued corrections early Thursday or reported that the second-in-line to the British throne was misquoted in original media reports about comments he made Wednesday about the Ukraine-Russia war, during a visit to the Ukrainian Cultural Center in London.Īccording to video from ITV, the Duke of Cambridge didn’t talk about violence in Africa and Asia, a purported comment that immediately drew accusations of racism. So, it looks like Prince William didn’t say that Britons were more used to seeing war and bloodshed in Africa and Asia, though video shows that he definitely said that “for our generation, it’s very alien to see this in Europe.”
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