A Buckingham Palace aide, Lady Susan Hussey, has apologized Friday to Sistah Space NGO founder Ngozi Fulani for racist remarks made during a royal reception last November.
«Fulani, who has unfairly received the most appalling torrent of abuse on social media and elsewhere, has accepted this apology and appreciates that no malice was intended,» Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
In this regard, the British Royal House has stressed that both Fulani and Lady Sussan seek «peace», as well as «rebuild their lives», after an «intensely distressing period for both». King Charles III and Queen consort Camilla have also been informed of this decision.
«They hope that their example will show that a path to resolution can be found with kindness, cooperation and the condemnation of discrimination wherever it takes root,» Buckhingham said in a statement.
Hussey, a former personal assistant to the late Elizabeth II and godmother to Prince William, persistently asked Fulani about her «background,» to which she replied that she was British and that her parents «came over in the 1950s» to the UK.
This is not the first time that the shadow of racism has hovered over the British Royal Family beyond its colonial past, since in a much talked about interview to American television of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Henry and Megan, she assured host Oprah Winfrey that she knew that within the royal family there was concern that their children were not white enough.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
