Definitely outdated, the British monarchy? Dangerously weakened, Charles and his son William – the two future kings in the order of succession -, after the interview-event of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex given to the star of the American talk shows Oprah Winfrey? It is probably going a little fast in the work with the house Windsor, which knew many crises before this one and until now always recovered (already, in 1997, the accidental death of Diana had it). seriously wavered).
In the meantime, the inflammatory accusations of Meghan Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, have brutally revived the conflict in the United Kingdom between anti-racist activists, representatives of the woke culture, and the opponents of the cancel culture, self-proclaimed defenders of freedom of expression.
Denials that cause an uproar
After that, in the face of tens of millions of viewers, Meghan raised the questions “Within the royal family”, on the ” skin color “ of his future child (Archie, born May 6, 2019), Prince Harry accused the British media of being “Racist”, “sectarian” and create a “Toxic environment”. Admittedly, this distrust of the media is one of the constants of the Sussexes: the youngest son of Princess Diana has criticized them for years for the harassment shown by his mother.
Nevertheless, this new wave of accusations prompted Ian Murray, the executive director of the Society of Editors (the main union of British press editors), to defend the profession on March 8, the day after the publication of the About the Sussexes by the British channel ITV (twenty-four hours after a first broadcast on the American channel CBS). “No, they [les médias] are neither racist nor sectarian ”, underlined this ex-journalist of the regional press at the microphone of the BBC, “There has been an incredible amount of positive articles about the couple [quand Meghan a rejoint la famille royale, en 2017]. ”
His denials then provoke an outcry: Charlene White, star presenter of the ITV channel, sharply means to Ian Murray that she gives up participating in the Society of Editors’ National Press Awards, the equivalent, for the profession, of the Césars for the cinema . “You better look for someone else, someone who shares more your opinion that the press is perfect in every way when it comes to racism”, explains the presenter in a press release. More than 250 journalists of color, like the editors-in-chief of Guardian, of Financial Times and Huffington Post UK, also dissociate themselves from Ian Murray. The latter is forced to return his apron on March 11.
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