{"id":281426,"date":"2025-07-22T03:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281426\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:14:25","slug":"british-royal-family-member-reportedly-named-pet-black-sheep-after-venus-and-serena-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281426\/","title":{"rendered":"British Royal Family Member Reportedly Named Pet Black Sheep After Venus And Serena Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blavity.com\/meghan-markle-ethnicity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a> is facing backlash for allegedly naming her two black sheep after tennis legends <a href=\"https:\/\/blavity.com\/venus-and-serena-williams-sisterhood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venus\u00a0and\u00a0Serena Williams<\/a>.\u00a0The royal family member at the center of the rumor is the wife of Prince Michael of Kent, Princess Michael of Kent. Prince Michael is also the son of\u00a0Prince George and grandson of\u00a0King George V.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Princess Michael of Kent reportedly named her two black sheep after Venus and Serena Williams<\/p>\n<p>The person who sparked the latest rumor about the royal family is an author named Aatish Taseer, who is the ex-boyfriend of Lady Gabriella Windsor (daughter of Princess Michael). Lady Gabriella is also King Charles\u2019s cousin. Taseer, who was Lady Gabriella\u2019s boyfriend for three years, told the story on Monday when he appeared for an interview on the\u00a0Tell Me About Your Father\u00a0podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/princess-reportedly-had-black-sheep-named-after-venus-and-serena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Us Weekly<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/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 said on the podcast, per Us Weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Taseer also told the story about the royal family\u2019s sheep when he wrote a 2018 article for <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vanityfair.com\/article\/2018\/5\/palace-prejudice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vanity Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrincess Michael, though generally free of British colonial prejudices, and beyond reproach when it came to me, nevertheless invited trouble out of what felt like a desire to shock: her pair of black sheep in Gloucestershire were named Venus and Serena,\u201d Taseer wrote at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Aatisha Taseer fall out with the Royal Family?<\/p>\n<p>Taseer said he remained close with Princess Michael even after he broke up with Lady Gabriella, but his relationship with the Royal Family deteriorated after he came out as gay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think once I came out and was married to a man, then it kind of, I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s one of those situations where it must have felt like a betrayal of our time together, even though it hadn\u2019t felt like that [for me],\u201d Taseer said on the Tell Me About Your Father podcast, per Us Weekly. \u201cI always had relationships with men.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A member of the Royal Family is facing backlash for allegedly naming her two black sheep after tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-281426","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114894711248772743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281426","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=281426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}