{"id":269669,"date":"2025-07-17T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269669\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:42:17","slug":"a-british-royal-under-fire-again-for-naming-pet-black-sheep-venus-and-serena-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269669\/","title":{"rendered":"A British Royal Under Fire Again For Naming Pet Black Sheep &#8216;Venus&#8217; and &#8216;Serena&#8217; | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British royal, <strong>Princess Michael of Ken<\/strong>t, who came under scrutiny for donning a brooch with a caricature of a Black man\u2019s face during a 2017 luncheon for Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, is once again facing ire for reportedly naming a pet black sheep after tennis icons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/tag\/bxdw0k\/venus-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Venus<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/tag\/z6k3y2\/serena-williams\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Serena Williams<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/princess-reportedly-had-black-sheep-named-after-venus-and-serena\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Us Weekly<\/a>,<strong> Aatish Taseer,<\/strong> who dated Lady Gabriella of Windsor, the daughter of Princess Michael of Kent, addressed this allegation on the Monday, July 14, episode of the podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com\/p\/aatish-taseer-on-exile-assassination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Tell Me About Your Father&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taseer first shared the story about Princess Michael of Kent, now 80, in Vanity Fair in a May 2018 essay entitled\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vanityfair.com\/article\/2018\/5\/palace-prejudice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cPalace &amp; Prejudice\u201d<\/a>, addressing what Meghan Markle\u2019s entry into the House of Windsor meant in the era of Brexit. Ultimately, Meghan Markle was subjected to racist treatment such that she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/bet-awards\/video-clips\/644c0a\/meghan-markle-prince-harry-and-baby-archie-move-to-l-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved her family out of the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/bet-awards\/topics\/uy5lgj\/tennis0\/pzoq52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Serena Williams Says People Cheered When She And Venus Lost Matches<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the [story about] Venus and Serena was part of that weird air of abstraction that exists around these people and how they\u2019re not even aware of how shocking or offensive that might be,\u201d Taseer, shared on the podcast, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/princess-reportedly-had-black-sheep-named-after-venus-and-serena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Us Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although these types of racist incidents usually go unchecked, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/venus-serena-dragged-british-royal-112920434.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo News<\/a> reports that Princess Michael of Kent was forced to apologize for wearing that colonial era badge with a caricature of a Black person to the Buckingham Palace lunch with Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/venus-serena-dragged-british-royal-112920434.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo News<\/a>, Buckingham Palace has been approached for comment on Taseer\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British royal, Princess Michael of Kent, who came under scrutiny for donning a brooch with a caricature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-269669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}