
Britain's royals have denied being a racist family. Archived papers reveal recent racist past
CNN
It wasn't long ago that Prince Harry and Meghan claimed members of the British royal family had made overtly racist comments about the skin color of their first-born child. Now, newly published archive papers reveal a racist recent past in the family.
The implication was clear: That there was concern at the heart of the monarchy over how a baby who may look different from the rest of the family because of his biracial mother would fit in. The fallout was huge. But reactions were largely split between people who saw it as a sign of institutional racism in the monarchy and those who thought the couple had made the whole thing up. After all, there was no hard evidence to back up the claim.
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