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In an illustration of perfect cosmic timing, the week of November 27, 2022 saw two distinct public incidents involving the British Royal Family that worked serendipitously with one another to prompt necessary confrontations regarding their response to the history of British colonialism, or more accurately, their lack thereof. On November 29, Buckingham Palace hosted an event as part of the United Nations's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. While such an event was meant to shed light on what Camilla, the Queen Consort, called "a global pandemic of violence against women," the microagressive remarks of Lady Susan Hussey stole the spotlight.¹ Hussey, Queen Elizabeth II's lady-in-waiting, approached Ngozi Fulani, the founder of the non-profit Sistah Space, and, as Fulani shared on social media, inquired repeatedly about where Fulani was "from." When Hussey did not receive what she believed to be a clear answer to her first inquiry, she proceeded to clarify, "what part of Africa are YOU from?," and upon Fulani explaining that she did not know, prompted, "but what Nationality are you?," to which Fulani replied, "I am born here and am British." Hussey, however, was undeterred. She continued asking where Fulani's people came from and when she first arrived to Britain until Fulani shared that her parents arrived in the U.K. in the 1950s. Hussey finally declared, "Oh, I knew we'd get there in the end, you're Caribbean!" I share most of the interchange as Fulani retold it to provide a clear impression of Hussey's persistence, a commitment to a line of inquiry determined to otherize Fulani, to make [End Page 29] her "from" somewhere else, thereby illustrating what L. Monique Pittman characterizes as "a strongly homogenous understanding of the United Kingdom that inadequately accounts for its long-standing cosmopolitan and multicultural communities."² The pull of this homogeneity therefore leads Hussey to suggest, while never outrightly stating, that someone with Fulani's name and skin color could not be fully conceived of as a British national, not really.

This racist incident framed Prince William and Princess Katherine's visit to Boston that same week, adding a pointedness to the remarks made by Reverend Mariama White-Hammond, Boston's chief of the environment, energy, and open space, later the same day as Hussey's demeaning exchange. As widely reported by news outlets, White-Hammond declared in her speech at Boston's City Hall, "On this day, I invite us all to consider the legacy of colonialism and racism. The ways it has impacted people around the world and its connection, its deep connection to the degradation of land and our planet that we are all seeking to serve. The stories lost, the species made extinct, but also the persistence of people in the face of oppression and the fundamental dignity of all of our relations."³ In context, White-Hammond's speech fits within the focus of the royals' visit—to award the Earthshot Prize, which funds five projects that strive to save the planet—by drawing attention to the relationship between colonialism, planetary exploitation, and environmental destruction. Nevertheless, it is White-Hammond's first line, "On this day, I invite us all to consider the legacy of colonialism and racism," that subsequently garnered the most attention, for as the racist Hussey exchange exposes, that legacy of colonialism and racism remains alive and well. In fact, as faux pas after faux pas by the royals make clear—from William seemingly blaming African people for overpopulation at the Tusk Conservation awards in 2021 to William and Kate's disastrous 2022 Caribbean tour, to concerns that Camilla would wear the "controversial" Koh-i-Noor diamond at King Charles's coronation—significant consideration of the legacy of colonialism and racism on the part of the royals has decidedly not taken place. These two occurrences thus reveal to transatlantic royal watchers just how tenuous the "post" in postcolonialism proves to be.

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作为完美宇宙时机的例证，2022 年 11 月 27 日这一周发生了两起涉及英国王室的不同公共事件，这两起事件无意中相互合作，引发了关于他们对英国殖民主义历史的反应的必要对抗，或者更准确地说，他们对英国殖民主义历史的反应。缺乏。11 月 29 日，白金汉宫举办了一场活动，作为联合国反对性别暴力 16 天行动的一部分。虽然这样的活动旨在揭示王后卡米拉所称的“针对妇女的暴力行为的全球流行病”，但苏珊·赫西夫人的微攻击性言论却抢走了人们的注意力。¹伊丽莎白二世女王的侍女赫西找到非营利组织 Sistah Space 的创始人恩戈齐·富拉尼 (Ngozi Fulani)，正如富拉尼在社交媒体上分享的那样，赫西反复询问富拉尼“来自哪里”。当赫西没有收到她认为对她的第一次询问的明确答复时，她继续澄清，“你来自非洲的哪个部分？”当富拉尼解释说她不知道时，提示道，“但是什么国籍？你是吗？”富拉尼回答说，“我出生在这里，是英国人。” 然而，赫西并没有被吓倒。她继续询问富拉尼的人来自哪里，以及她什么时候第一次到达英国，直到富拉尼说她的父母在 20 世纪 50 年代抵达英国。赫西最后宣布：“哦，我知道我们最终会到达那里，你是加勒比海！[第 29 页完]她“来自”其他地方，从而说明了 L. Monique Pittman 所描述的“对英国的强烈同质化理解，不足以解释其长期存在的国际化和多元文化社区”。²因此，这种同质性的吸引力导致赫西提出，虽然从未明确指出，但具有富拉尼名字和肤色的人不能完全被视为英国国民，事实并非如此。

这一种族主义事件成为威廉王子和凯瑟琳公主同周访问波士顿的背景，为波士顿环境、能源和开放空间主管玛丽亚玛·怀特-哈蒙德牧师在赫西的侮辱性交流的同一天晚些时候发表的言论增添了尖锐的色彩。正如新闻媒体广泛报道的那样，怀特-哈蒙德在波士顿市政厅的演讲中宣称，“在这一天，我邀请我们所有人思考殖民主义和种族主义的遗产。它对世界各地人民的影响及其联系，它与我们都在寻求服务的土地和地球的退化有着密切的联系。故事的消失，物种的灭绝，还有人们面对压迫的坚持以及我们所有关系的基本尊严。” ³从上下文来看，怀特-哈蒙德的演讲符合王室访问的焦点——颁发“地球射击奖”，该奖资助五个致力于拯救地球的项目——通过提请人们关注殖民主义、行星剥削和环境破坏之间的关系。尽管如此，怀特-哈蒙德的第一句话“在这一天，我邀请我们所有人考虑殖民主义和种族主义的遗产”，随后引起了最多的关注，因为正如种族主义赫​​西的交流所揭露的那样，殖民主义和种族主义的遗产仍然活得很好。事实上，正如王室成员一次又一次的失礼所表明的那样——从威廉在 2021 年图斯克保护奖上似乎将人口过剩归咎于非洲人民，到威廉和凯特 2022 年灾难性的加勒比海之旅，没有发生。因此，这两起事件向跨大西洋的王室观察家揭示了后殖民主义中的“职位”是多么脆弱。

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