When Meghan Markle’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey revealed that there were concerns about her son Archie’s ‘skin colour’, it became evident that racism exists in the royal family. Now, adding fuel to the fire, the Cambridges have been criticised for being on the racism spectrum during their latest tour to Jamaica.
The royal couple was pictured shaking hands with children through a wire fence and posing with a statue of Bob Marley.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton were greeted with protests demanding reparations for the legacy of the British Empire and slavery when they arrived in the Caribbean nation. The couple is on a tour to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee this year.
However, the tone of press pictures from the events has received backlash. Acclaimed author Malorie Blackman, whose parents were both from Barbados, asked whether any people of colour were employed in the couple’s public relations team.
The Noughts and Crosses writer tweeted: “Do Prince William and Kate employ even one person of colour in their PR depts and run the optics of such images below by them first?”
Other than that, she also tweeted a picture from 2012 of the royal couple being carried on a sedan chair on a royal visit to Tuvalu which was criticised as being in poor taste at the time.
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There are also pictures that show Kate and William visiting the former home of reggae legend Bob Marley which is now a museum. They also played the drums with musicians in the courtyard of the house.
A social media user shared a picture of Middleton smiling as she touched the hands of children behind the wire fence of a football pitch with the caption: “Who thought this was a good photo op?”
This event has come between reports Jamaica – a former British colony that retains the Queen as its head of state – could become a republic soon.
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