British Royal News: Prince William And Kate Middleton Blamed For Disastrous Caribbean Tour
British Royal News suggests Prince William and Kate Middleton have a lot of work ahead of them if they ever want to fix this mess they were put in. At least, that’s what one royal expert believes. Here’s what you need to know.
British Royal News: Prince William And Kate Middleton Blamed For Disastrous Caribbean Tour
Royal expert and author Catherine Mayer thinks that the British Royal Family is in need of a shakeup, especially after the events that occurred at Prince William and Kate Midldeton’s disastrous tour of the Caribbean back in March. Some people even called it a “royal colonist” tour.
According to The Guardian, Mayer puts it this way, “Barbados didn’t bother to wait for a new sovereign, breaking with the crown last year. Six of the remaining Caribbean realms have already signaled a desire to follow suit. The painful progress of the Cambridges, William and Kate, across the region in March prompted dismay in the royal palaces, but too little understanding to change the jarring choreography of a similar expedition by the Wessexes – Prince Edward and wife Sophie – the following month. Protesters at every stage pointed to the ways in which the royals are beneficiaries in economic and social terms of empire and inequality, enslavement and exploitation. None of the palace officials involved in planning either trip seemed to have grasped how this heritage twines with Windrush and other fresher narratives of injustice, whether of Black lives extinguished by the police supposed to protect them or of a woman of color crushed and cold-shouldered by the institution in whose service her in-laws traveled.”
British Royal News: What’s Next For William And Kate?
BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond believes the reason why the Caribbean tour was such a flop was because it’s been a long time since William and Kate’s team had to organize a royal tour. In fact, this was their first tour in two years since the start of the global pandemic that has been COVID-19.
If that weren’t enough, royal expert and critic Camilla Tominey added that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex simply need to accept the fact that they are “not emperors.” She said, “The days of us accepting royals, walking around foreign climbs, not addressing the elephant in the room which is our imperialism and colonial past is over. William and Kate of course have to accept some of the dissent that they encounter when they go on these tours… The truth of the matter is, because of the Queen’s performance on the throne and her solid support of Commonwealth Countries, she remains sacrosanct. Are there going to be more countries flirting with republicanism when we have King Charles III on the throne? Well, yes, maybe.”
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