Prince William’s godmother, Lady Susan Hussey, personally offered her “sincere apologies” Friday to the black charity founder she’d repeatedly told couldn’t “really” be British.
The 83-year-old longtime lady-in-waiting for the late Queen Elizabeth II was pictured Friday smiling with Ngozi Fulani, the victim of her racially charged questioning last month.
The pair got together at the Regency Room in Buckingham Palace for a meeting “filled with warmth and understanding,” the palace said.
During the sitdown, Hussey “offered her sincere apologies for the comments that were made and the distress they caused to Ms. Fulani,” the joint statement with the offended charity founder said.
Fulani “accepted this apology and appreciates that no malice was intended,” the statement said.
King Charles III, Queen Consort Camilla and “other members of the Royal Family have been kept fully informed and are pleased that both parties have reached this welcome outcome,” the palace said.
Their close family friend has “pledged to deepen her awareness of the sensitivities involved and is grateful for the opportunity to learn more about the issues in this area,” the palace said.
Lady Susan Hussey meets Ngozi Fulani after her racist attack. via REUTERSHussey quit her role in the royal family’s household over what the palace earlier called “unacceptable and deeply regrettable comments” to Fulani at the palace reception.
When Fulani told the aging aide that she was British, Hussey repeatedly challenged her over her real nationality.
“No, but where do you really come from, where do your people come from?” Hussey had asked the Londoner.
Since exposing the racist exchange, Fulan “has unfairly received the most appalling torrent of abuse on social media and elsewhere.”
The 83-year-old longtime lady-in-waiting for the late Queen Elizabeth II was pictured Friday smiling with Ngozi Fulani. POOL/AFP via Getty Images“Both Ms. Fulani and Lady Susan ask now that they be left in peace to rebuild their lives in the wake of an immensely distressing period for them both,” the joint statement said.
“They hope that their example shows a path to resolution can be found with kindness, co-operation and the condemnation of discrimination wherever it takes root.”
The royal households, meanwhile, “will continue their focus on inclusion and diversity,” including learning from Fulani’s organization, Sistah Space, which supports domestic abuse victims while “ensuring that cultural factors are not only considered but understood.”
The royal households, meanwhile, “will continue their focus on inclusion and diversity.” APThe scandal came after the king’s estranged son and daughter-in-law, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, told Oprah Winfrey last year that racism in the family was at least part of their need to step down as senior royals.
However, they did not continue that attack in their nearly six-hour docu-series for Netflix — with Harry instead accepting his own “unconscious bias” and shame at wearing a Nazi costume, calling it “probably one of the biggest mistakes in my life.”






