So… arguably, there are three scenarios. Scenario #1: the Princess of Wales is too much of a lazy brat to keep senior staff, and so her inexperienced team of morons has been tasked with trying to make her look good and they keep failing miserably (and hilariously). Scenario #2: The knives are out for the Princess of Wales at a very high level, and there’s actually a campaign afoot to make Kate look like a racist a–hole. Scenario #3: both #1 and #2 are happening at the same time. Robert Jobson reported a week ago that Kate told a “senior royal” that walking with Meghan two days after QEII’s death was “one of the hardest things she’d ever had to do,” Jesus wept. Then Tom Bower and several other royal commentators made it so much worse by repeatedly claiming that Kate “banned” Meghan from coming to the coronation, and/or that Kate demanded that a Black woman be sent to the back of the church. The fact that Kate is being “blamed” with Meghan’s absence is kind of extraordinary because – for all of Kate’s many faults – I don’t think she had much to do with any of it.
All of that brings me to this Daily Mail story: “How Kate’s ancestor played a key role in abolishing slavery… after the Sussexes’ barbs about royals and racism.” As in, Kate can’t be a racist sh-thead because one of her ancestors was an abolitionist. Which begs the question: is that why Kate dressed up like a Confederate war widow for her 40th birthday portraits? Is that also why Abolitionist Crymonger Keen literally flinches when a Black person tries to touch her, or why she can only touch Black children when they’re behind chainlink fences? Food for thought.
Anyway, the crux of the Mail’s piece is that something something Prince William denounced slavery in Jamaica (soon after he was fired live on television) and that King Charles will be dealing with more serious calls for reparations in the years to come, especially given all of the historical-minded research projects into the crown’s links to the transatlantic slave trade. Someone, somewhere thought it was a good time to tell people about Kate’s “great-great-great-great-great-aunt, Norfolk-born Harriet Martineau,” who was the kind of aboltionist who wrote some letters and said sh-t like “slavery is bad.” Bizarrely, the Daily Mail published this with a straight face:
And, in a fascinating twist of history, it was her lobbying of U.S. Presidents James Madison and Andrew Jackson that ultimately set in motion Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation — the declaration that freed the Duchess of Sussex’s great-great-great-great-grandfather Stephen Ragland from servitude.
Historian Michael Reed, who discovered the connection, said that although Harry and Meghan have been accused of inferring racism in the Royal Family, our future queen has an ancestor who nobly fought the battle to free slaves in America.
Don’t you get it, how dare Meghan talk about racism when she’s descended from a freed slave, a slave who was probably freed because one of Kate’s relatives wrote a letter! This is all such a huge mess – if this is coming from Kate’s office or Kate has approved of this messaging, she needs to f–king stop.
After this story came out, y’all started calling her Karriet Tubman and I CANNOT.
Royal Family: We really need an image on overhaul to beat these racism allegations 😢
Daily Mail: Say no more…#KarrietTubman pic.twitter.com/5T10JeUFLW— Boom The Brazen Hussy (@TheDuchessBoom) April 15, 2023
Top CEO, Kay Guevara, reincarnated freer of slaves Karriet Tubman, walked like 5 minutes beside the space beside her husband who was beside the husband of a biracial woman who was beside that biracial woman. Is there anything she can’t do? pic.twitter.com/PuaTcjH3Bp
— Mercy Sussex (@KenyanSquadie) April 15, 2023
This hashtag lmao #KarrietTubman pic.twitter.com/RLx9ZpBYPO
— Just Juliette (@SussexDetective) April 15, 2023
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Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge meet locals during a visit Trench Town, the birthplace of reggae in Kingston, Jamaica, on day four of their tour of the Caribbean on behalf of the Queen to mark her Platinum Jubilee.
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- North America Rights Only – Kingston, Jamaica -20220324-Royal Visit to the Caribbean – Day 6 Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge attend the inaugural Commissioning Parade for service personnel from across the Caribbean who have recently completed the Caribbean Military Academy’s Officer Training Program, in Kingston, Jamaica, on day six of their tour of the Caribbean on behalf of the Queen to mark her Platinum Jubilee. -PICTURED: Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge -PHOTO by: Jane Barlow/PA Images/INSTARimages.com Disclaimer: This is an editorial, rights-managed image. Please contact INSTAR Images for licensing fee and rights information at sales@instarimages.com or call +1 212 414 0207. This image may not be published in any way that is, or might be deemed to be, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, or obscene. Please consult our sales department for any clarification needed prior to publication and use. INSTAR Images reserves the right to pursue unauthorized users of this material. If you are in violation of our intellectual property rights or copyright you may be liable for damages, loss of income, any profits you derive from the unauthorized use of this material and, where appropriate, the cost of collection and/or any statutory damages awarded For images containing underage children: Be advised that some Countries may have restricted privacy laws against publishing images of underage children. Inform yourself! Underage children may need to be removed or have their face pixelated before publishing
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Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge arrive for a dinner hosted by Patrick Allen, Governor General of Jamaica, at King’s House, in Kingston, Jamaica, on day five of the royal tour of the Caribbean on behalf of the Queen to mark her Platinum Jubilee.
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- North America Rights Only – Kingston, Jamaica -20220323-Royal Visit to the Caribbean – Day 5 The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness and his wife Juliet with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during a meeting at his office in Kingston, Jamaica, on day five of their tour of the Caribbean on behalf of the Queen to mark her Platinum Jubilee -PICTURED: Catherine Duchess of Cambridge -PHOTO by: Jane Barlow/PA Images/INSTARimages.com Disclaimer: This is an editorial, rights-managed image. Please contact INSTAR Images for licensing fee and rights information at sales@instarimages.com or call +1 212 414 0207. This image may not be published in any way that is, or might be deemed to be, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, or obscene. Please consult our sales department for any clarification needed prior to publication and use. INSTAR Images reserves the right to pursue unauthorized users of this material. If you are in violation of our intellectual property rights or copyright you may be liable for damages, loss of income, any profits you derive from the unauthorized use of this material and, where appropriate, the cost of collection and/or any statutory damages awarded For images containing underage children: Be advised that some Countries may have restricted privacy laws against publishing images of underage children. Inform yourself! Underage children may need to be removed or have their face pixelated before publishing
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Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, speaks to a patient, next to National Portrait Gallery Director Nicholas Cullinan, as she arrives for a visit to a National Portrait Gallery workshop at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, in London, Britain, January 28, 2020.
Where: LONDON, United Kingdom
When: 28 Jan 2020
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