The Kensington Palace is responsible for the management of the public image of the two children of king Charles, prince William and prince Harry, and their respective wives, Kate Middleton, and Meghan Markle. Due to recent events, the internet is now accusing the Kensington Palace of giving a preferential treatment to Kate Middleton in comparison to Meghan Markle, which would allegedly be due to ‘racial preferences’, as Kate is a middle class white British woman, and Meghan a black American woman.
The whole situation started when Kate Middleton posted a photo with her children to celebrate Mother’s Day on social media, and the internet noticed a few irregularities in the picture, such as bad editing, disfigurations, and odd-looking hands, which led followers to believe that the photo was generated with an Artificial Intelligence, and that Kate Middleton is in fact somewhere else that the royal family doesn’t want the public to know about.
The scandal grew too much on social media, to the point where the Kensington Palace had to release a statement to clarify the situation, deny all malicious rumors and explain that Kate Middleton edited the photo herself and made ‘amateur mistakes’, and their quick response in defense of the Princess of Wales sparked a question among the public: why didn’t they do anything in defense of Meghan Markle when she was the bullseye of multiple attacks due to her race? And why didn’t they do anything to clarify any of the polemics that destroyed her public image?
During her short lived period as duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle was accused of many things that affected the way the public perceived her. She went from being a great American import to the royal family, to being blamed for everything bad that was happening to it. She received multiple attacks by the public that were motivated by her racial differences with the rest of the royal family, and the Kensington Palace didn’t seem to care as much about her public image as they cared for Kate Middleton’s, and that has led people to think that maybe the Kensington Palace and its counselors are among the people that never liked Meghan Markle due to her status as a black woman, thus why they never took action against malicious comments or rumors.
What do you think? Is this a plausible theory or is this just motivated by resentful followers of Meghan Markle?
