If anyone deserves an anti-racism award it's King Charles, not Harry and Meghan.

 

On December 6, at a prestigious gala ceremony in New York, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will acquire a coveted Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

They have been nominated for what the organisation’s president, Kerry Kennedy – the ex-wife of disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo – describes as their ‘willingness to talk up and trade the narrative on social justice.

They went to the oldest group in UK history and told them what they had been doing wrong’.

Fellow recipients consist of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the late basketball legend and civil rights icon, Bill Russell.

Quite how the Sussexes’ feats evaluate to defending your state in opposition to a genocidal maniac or overcoming racial segregation to become one of the most embellished black sportsmen of all time is unclear.

Indeed, if one were Zelensky, one might even experience a little insulted by association.

There you are, bombs raining down on your country, and there Harry and Meghan are, sitting in their Montecito mansion, whinging about Daddy cutting them off and how their young people couldn’t name themselves Prince and Princess. The equivalence isn’t immediately apparent.

If the Sussexes had even a sliver of self-knowledge, they would categorical their gratitude, say how flattered they are – but civilly decline on the grounds there are countless others a ways greater deserving of such an honour. If they did so, I would be the first to applaud them.

But of path they won’t. Not least because the Duchess can’t face up to an opportunity to put on a fancy frock and swan around in her diamonds – but additionally due to the fact they are below the fantastic delusion that they are victims of prejudice who have faced authentic oppression.

Ms Kennedy’s quotation refers to the couple’s accusation of racism in opposition to senior contributors of the Royal Family in the course of that notorious interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Vehemently denied by way of the Prince of Wales and repudiated in normally diplomatic manner by the late Queen – ‘recollections may additionally vary’ – it’s never been totally apparent what form this so-called racism used to be supposed to have taken.

Nor have the Sussexes ever provided any concrete evidence. Indeed, scratch the surface and all the facts points to the actual contrary of what they say being true – especially if you subscribe to the idea that actions communicate louder than words.

Look at the late Queen’s dedication to the Commonwealth and its people. Or take The Prince’s Trust, founded by the King, which has helped limitless disadvantaged children – many from minority backgrounds.

One of those who was helped even passed out a Pride of Britain Prince’s Trust Award remaining month to a younger RAF pilot with Asperger’s syndrome referred to as Alex Anderson – paying tribute to the possibilities the Trust had given him. His name? Idris Elba.

And who can forget about the delight and dignity with which Charles walked Meghan down the aisle? Or the heat welcome given to her mother at the wedding?

After all the work the King – and different Royals – have completed to champion tolerance and diversity, the thought that the household are one way or the other ‘institutionally racist’ is nothing less than absurd.

Yet this thinking is what the Sussexes have slyly engineered. All so they can create a narrative which fits their purpose: to bolster their image – and bank account – at the Royal Family’s expense.

As well as insulting the work of Harry’s grandmother, it leads to the Royal Family struggling the vilest of accusations and abuse.

Last week, for example, the Queen Consort was berated online when she visited a Barnardo’s nursery in East London to ‘re-home’ hundreds of Paddington Bears left at Buckingham Palace in tribute to the late Queen.

A more innocuous event you should no longer have imagined. Camilla handed out stuffed toys and hugged diverse toddlers, together with one adorably shy two-year-old who approached her to see what all the fuss was about.

Within hours, though, the hashtag ‘racistroyalfamily’ was once trending on Twitter after a brief clip of her touching a child’s sleeve was circulated as proof she so hates black human beings she won’t even contact one. In truth she was simply lifting the little girl’s sleeve to admire a bracelet.

The irony, of course, is that it was once precisely this type of twisted on line bullying of Meghan that drove Harry mad. That he have, with the aid of his own actions, visited a comparable destiny not solely on his stepmother however additionally on his father, brother and different spouse and children makes him either selfish or stupid – or possibly both.

As for the notion he and the Duchess have to be rewarded for this, properly I suppose that tells you the whole thing you need to be aware of about the world we now live in.

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