Is the royal racism row real or merely confected?

I MET Oprah Winfrey in 1984. She is highly intelligent and wouldn’t have been the slightest bit shocked by the suggestion that a member of the Royal Family had wondered about the skin colour of Harry and Meghan’s firstborn. In fact, what family on Earth wouldn’t be interested? I wondered at the time how many takes of Oprah’s horrified ‘What?’ it took to get the required result.

DAVID DEE, Minster, Kent.

THE Dutch publisher of the obnoxious Omid Scobie’s book Endgame asserted that naming an alleged royal racist was due to a mistranslation. As the original English version did not include the name of that person, this is patently absurd. The only conclusion we can draw is that this was a deliberate act to promote interest in the book.

GERRY LESTER, Stone, Staffs.

WHILE raising ‘concerns’ about an unborn baby’s skin tone may be seen as racist by some, to others it is simply asking: I wonder who the child will take after? Before the Prince of Wales’s birth, there was quite a lot of interest among his grandmother’s subjects as to whether William would inherit his father Charles’s prominent ears. I don’t remember ‘earism’ ever being discussed all those years ago.

JILL DAVIES, London SE27.

COMMENTING on Omid Scobie’s book, Sarah Vine (Mail) rightly said that ‘if Harry and Meghan don’t denounce this poison, we can only assume they endorse it’. Every family has disagreements, which they get over in time, but the Sussexes need to perpetuate this feud or they will lose their major source of income.

MICK HARGREAVES, Wrexham.

I TAKE it the Sussexes’ invitations to spend Christmas with the Royal Family will not be forthcoming.