"Most people who are white are trained to listen to white people and not to people of colour, he says in the film. Her father, her mom, her brother they didn't even know what racism was. They would look at me like I was crazy when I would say there's racism. It makes for dramatic television. But the portrayal of the king and queen as naive, out of touch and even prejudiced is not just misleading, it distorts what they represent in Norway."
"In fact, for families like mine, the royal couple became a rare unifying force in a society still learning what diversity meant. International viewers might see this as an echo of Britain's Windsors, glamorous, scandal-ridden, polarising figures who dominate headlines whereas the Norwegian royals may come across as quieter, less visible, and largely uncontroversial. In reality, Harald and Sonja have been moral anchors in a country that only began receiving significant immigration from Asia and Africa in the 1970s."
Princess Martha Louise of Norway and her American husband Durek Verrett, a self-styled shaman and spiritual healer to celebrities, have generated controversy after she stepped down from official duties and the couple promoted pseudoscientific beliefs. Verrett, who is Black, alleges that the royal family dismissed his claims of racism and says many white people are trained to listen to white people rather than people of colour. The king and queen are widely seen by many Norwegians with immigrant backgrounds as moral anchors who have consistently spoken of immigrants as belonging, prompting strong rebuttals to allegations of prejudice.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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