A royal wedding is on the way! Everyone at this point knows that Prince Harry of the U.K., younger brother of Prince William and second son of Princess Diana and Princess Charles, is set to wed American Suits actress Meghan Markle later this year. People in the U.S. and U.K. are speculating about every little detail of the wedding, not to mention what might happen after, such as if, when, and how many children the new couple will have. It’s just all so lovely, this business of love.
But what’s the one thing stronger than love, the thing that can make people say incredibly nasty and horrible things about their fellow human beings? Racism, apparently. You see, Meghan Markle is biracial, and a prominent British celebrity, romantically involved with a prominent British political leader, thinks that Markle marrying into the royal family is going to taint that supposed bastion of racial purity forever.
Jo Marney is a 25-year-old model, writer, and TV personality. Henry Bolton is the 54-year-old leader of the U.K.’s far-right UKIP party. Bolton left his wife and mother of his two children for Marney, who is also a member of the very conservative party. She also has some very strong feelings about Meghan Markle, and non-all-white people in general. On Sunday, The Daily Mail obtained and published some racist texts Marney sent to a friend that concern the future princess.
What follows are some of those texts that Marney sent to a male acquaintance a few weeks before she first got together with Bolton. Warning: They’re quite vile and not for sensitive hearts.
From Mail on Sunday. Some of the comments that UKIP leader's girlfriend is said to have made about Meghan Marklehttps://t.co/utdBqvXFcb pic.twitter.com/ASJiYGsoPX
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 13, 2018
Marney was immediately suspended from the UKIP, while Bolton is facing what might be the end of his political career. That party has had a revolving door of leadership and there’s some speculation that the UKIP may not survive yet another scandal.
Marney also swiftly issued an apology. Her statement read, “I apologise unreservedly for the shocking language I used. The opinions I expressed were deliberately exaggerated in order to make a point and have, to an extent, been taken out of context. Yet I fully recognise the offence they have caused.”
The public, however, remains both appalled and glad to see Bolton and Marney go away.