Prince Edward and his wife Sophie are currently on a week-long royal tour of the Caribbean, but they have been told not to treat locals like ‘simpletons’ with patronising remarks about slavery.
marking Barbados cutting ties with the monarchy and becoming a republic.
The group said: ‘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”. Commission chairman Dorbrene O’Marde described William and Kate’s recent tour as a ‘horrible, horrible exposition of archaic colonial behaviour.Edward presents trophies to the winners of 100m races and a 70m sprint in honour of the Platinum Jubilee at The Sir Vincent Beach National Stadium
He told local radio that the letter was written to reflect the absence of ‘an apology from the crown both as a family and as an institution for their role in the enslavement of African people’.
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