Princess Michael of Kent came under fire for wearing a controversial brooch to a Buckingham Palace lunch attended by Prince Harry's fiance, Meghan Markle. The princess was snapped wearing a blackamoor-style brooch that depicted an African figure on her coat and received much flak for it. Blackamoor is a decorative style that depicts African people as exoticized figures and is widely considered rather offensive.
Twitter users didn't delay tweeting their opinions on Twitter and took to the social media platform to call out the princess as overtly racist. "The brooch was a gift and had been worn many times before. Princess Michael is very sorry and distressed that it has caused offence," her representative said in a statement Friday. However, former royal chef Darren McGrady tweeted that Princess Michael's decision to wear the brooch was an "appalling show of disrespect and jealousy."
Meghan has previously written about the challenges of being the child of a white father and African-American mother and this too added to the fire. A Kensington Palace source said the brooch she wore was not meant to insult the new addition to the royal family, Meghan, who is now engaged to marry Prince Harry and that Princess Michael will not wear it again.
This, however, is not the first time Princess Michael has been involved in an incident of racism. In 2004 she was accused of telling a group of black diners in New York to “go back to the colonies” because she was offended by the level of noise coming from their table.
Well, royal traditions come with their share of drama too we guess! What are your thoughts on the matter?
