Royal Family warned against insulting black people on latest Caribbean tour

dailystar.co.uk:

royal family have been urged to to account for slavery during the platinum jubilee tour of eastern Caribbean. Campaigners in Antigua have asked the monarchy to be careful of "insulting" descendants of African people who were enslaved by Britain, by glossing over any of the atrocities committed in the past.

Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, who arrived in the country on Friday afternoon, were greeted by the deputy prime minister of Saint Lucia Dr Ernest Hilaire and honoured with a red carpet welcome.

The warning, in the form of a strongly-worded public statement from the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission, came just hours before the royal couple began their trip.

Criticising the royal family's past comments on slavery, including recent Prince William, the letter read: "It has become common for members of the royal family and representatives of the government of Britain to come to this region and lament that slavery was an ‘appalling atrocity’, that it was ‘abhorrent’, that 'it should not have happened.'" "We hear the phony sanctimony of those who came before you that these crimes are a ‘stain on your history’.