Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘may refer’ to Buckingham Palace race row when accepting award in New York and ‘will be loving’ the fallout, the Mail’s Richard Eden tells Palace Confidential

• Jo Elvin joined by the Daily Mail’s diary editor Richard Eden on this week’s show
• She also speak to Gyles Brandreth about his experience with the royal family
• UK author shares how Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip did not discriminate 
• Topics discussed include race rows and the Prince and Princess of Wales US trip 

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘may refer’ to the Buckingham Palace race row when accepting their award in New York, the Mail’s Richard Eden has claimed. 

The 83-year-old former Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, Lady Susan Hussey resigned after repeatedly asking a black guest at Buckingham Palace where she was ‘really’ from. 

The incident came days before the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were set to be awarded for their ‘heroic’ stance against the ‘structural racism’ of the royal family at Ripple of Hope Gala in New York on December 6.

On this week’s Palace Confidential, The Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden said: ‘I really do think that Harry and Meghan will be loving the race row at Buckingham Palace because it vindicates their fears and what they’ve said before.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘may refer’ to the Buckingham Palace race row when accepting their award in New York, the Mail’s Richard Eden has claimed

‘It gives them evidence for their complaints. They are due to get this Human Rights award, and Kerry Kennedy has said it’s because of them standing up to racism and that kind of thing. So we’ll see what they say when they collect the award.

‘I hope they don’t, but they may refer to the events we saw yesterday.’ 

Eden also argues on Palace Confidential that Lady Hussey doesn’t deserve the opprobrium she has received.

‘You do have to make some allowances, I think people move with the times sure, it’s a different generation,’ he tells the programme. 

The 83-year-old former Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, Lady Susan Hussey resigned after repeatedly asking a black guest at Buckingham Palace where she was ‘really’ from

‘We’re all products of the generation we were brought up in and sometimes you can feel a bit lost when culture suddenly changes.’

Royal confident and author Gyles Brandreth shares his thoughts on the subject. 

He tells Jo Elvin that both the late Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II were not for discrimination. 

Sharing an anecdote, Gyles said that he once overheard Prince Philip tell a dinner companion to stop their conversation. 

Gyles said: ‘I remember an incident in the 1970s or 1980s where I was at a private dinner with the Duke of Edinburgh, and somebody across the room was telling a story that was in poor taste.

The Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden said Harry and Meghan will be ‘loving the race row at Buckingham Palace’ because it ‘vindicates what they’ve said before’

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‘It wasn’t a racist story, but it was not acceptable. Today, it would be not acceptable. Then it probably was acceptable.

‘But half hearing it, the Duke of Edinburgh turned on this man, who was a friend of his, and said “no more of that. I don’t like it.”‘

It comes as it emerged Lady Hussey has offered to personally meet with the British charity campaigner who accused her of racial ‘abuse’.

Friends told the Mail that the 83-year-old former lady-in-waiting to the late Queen, who was retained by the king in an honorary role, has reiterated her wish to apologise directly to Ngozi Fulani.

Sources also made clear that contrary to suggestions that the charity founder had not heard from them, Palace officials had ‘reached out’ through a number of channels including Safe Lives, the domestic abuse charity who invited her to attend, in order to express their ‘profound’ regret for the ‘unacceptable’ comments and were keen to engage with her when she felt ready.

Miss Fulani says she was left feeling ‘violated’ after Prince William’s godmother, who served as the late Queen’s right-hand woman for 62 years, ‘interrogated’ her about where she was from at a Palace reception on Tuesday, despite her making clear she was British

They will continue to do so but it is clear that they have not yet heard back from Miss Fulani, who has given several media interviews on the incident.

Sources say it is their hope that she will engage with the Palace to discuss her experience directly in the hope that they can work with her when she is ready, and express apologies in person.

Miss Fulani says she was left feeling ‘violated’ after Prince William’s godmother, who served as the late Queen’s right-hand woman for 62 years, ‘interrogated’ her about where she was from at a Palace reception on Tuesday, despite her making clear she was British.

Elsewhere, the majority of the programme focused on the Prince and Princess of Wales’s trip to the US. 

Officially, the main reason the Prince and Princess of Wales are in the US, is to promote the Earthshot prize – unofficially they are waging the war for the hearts and minds of the American public. 

On Wednesday, after Miss Fulani published details of their conversation on social media, which was backed up by witnesses, Buckingham Palace announced that she was resigning her honorary post as a ‘Lady of the Household’ and expressed her profound apologies for the offence caused 

That’s the view of veteran royal writer and the Daily Mail’s Editor at Large Richard Kay, who says the Royal Family are keenly aware that their standing in the US has been greatly reduced since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s acrimonious departure from the Royal Family.

William and Kate were ‘hoping on what they wanted to achieve with the trip to the US without any distractions’, Richard said.

He explained: ‘There’s nothing more competitive than the royal family. William has become quite a mature performer on the foreign stage now. 

‘But nevertheless, it is awkward for him, that within two days of his departure from Boston, little brother Harry rocks up in New York where there will be a more glamorous event for him and Meghan to attend.’

Meanwhile the royal experts said it was ‘so important’ to the House of Windsor to ‘try to reclaim some love that existed in America because of the Queen and Diana’ 

Meanwhile Richard Eden added: ‘It’s very much in contrast to that victim culture and endless moaning that we see from his brother and his wife.’

Richard Kay said: ‘Earthshot is terrific in many ways, but this isn’t the major reason why this is an important trip for the Royal Family as an institution.’

‘America has more or less been surrendered by the family ever since the Meghan and Harry fallout and their accusations on the Oprah Winfrey interview, America has sided very much in the Harry and Meghan camp. 

‘This is so important to the House of Windsor to try and reclaim that love that existed in America for many years, largely because of the Queen, of course, but also because of the late Princess Diana, who was also a hugely popular figure. 

‘I think Americans are going to be slightly conflicted, they loved Diana, they love her sons, but one son is pitched against another, so how this trip plays out is incredibly important for the longterm wellbeing of the monarchy.’

On the subject of that trip, The Daily Mail’s Royal Editor Rebecca English sends a special dispatch from Boston giving her view of how the trip is being received.      

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