Thank you for reading my comments and responding. I am sure you are correct when you say that many Black people would perceive the prince's statement as 'dismissive' or inadequate, given the family's history of involvement with colonialism, the slave trade, etc. Many white people would no doubt agree.

I question whether it is fair, however, to paint the entire family with the same brush. Prince Harry has a long involvement in Africa and African philanthropy and is, of course, married to a woman who is biracial. Prince William publicly broke with royal protocol when he responded personally to an allegation shouted by someone in a crowd regarding racism within the family. His angry assertion that the royal family "is very much not a racist family," given the context in which it was made, appeared sincere.

At the very least, he was clearly trying to disassociste himself from that charge. My assumption is that we should judge individuals on their own merit, not on the merit of their family, their race or the society in which they were born. Further, I prefer to take people at their word until I have strong evidence that their word cannot be trusted. In light of that, I don't believe that you made a compelling case that members of the current royal family (as a whole) or that the young royals in particular, are racist.