Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have faced backlash after being nominated for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award.
The ceremony will take place just a week after Prince William and Kate Middleton arrived in Boston for this year’s Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony in New York on December 6.
Meghan and Harry’s nomination for the prestigious gong has angered some historians and experts as they have questioned the merits of the award, while some royal fans believe the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are insulting the royal family. The award is being given.
Royal fans called the move ridiculous. Some believe this shows the California-based couple are being paid and praised for their attempt to insult the royal family.
While, some believe it is an attempt to steal the thunder of the Prince and Princess of Wales during their visit to Boston.
Professor David Nasa, author of The Patriarch, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated book about President Kennedy’s father, told the Mail on Sunday, “I find it somewhere between the most ridiculous and the downright ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. Is.”
He added that the Kennedys’ patriarch Joseph, an Irish Catholic, would visit his grave to see branches of his family “connected to British royalty”.
While Kerry Kennedy, president of the award-giving organization, explained that Harry and Meghan and their “willingness to speak out and change the narrative about racial justice and mental health are emblematic of the kind of moral courage that my father demonstrated.” was once called. ‘A necessary, critical standard for those who want to change a world that is painfully receptive to change.’
