Robert F. Kennedy’s daughter said Harry and Meghan will receive an award created in her father’s honor for challenging ‘structural racism’ in the U.K. monarchy.
at a Dec. 6 ceremony in New York because they had the courage to challenge the royal family’s “power structure.”
The Earthshot Prize ceremony takes place at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, and Caroline Kennedy, the daughter or John F. Kennedy, will be there to help the Prince and Princess of Wales honor recipients of the global environmental award. William and his Royal Foundation created the prize, with inspiration from Kennedy’s famous 1962 “moonshot” speech.
According to The Telegraph, Kerry Kennedy recalled a visit her father made to South Africa in 1966, during which he spoke about the problems in getting people to talk about racial justice. “They went to the oldest institution in UK history and told them what they were doing wrong, that they couldn’t have structural racism within the institution,” Kerry Kennedy continued, according to The Telegraph. “They knew that if they did this there would be consequences, that they would be ostracized, they would lose their family, their position within this structure, and that people would blame them for it.
But the choice to honor Harry and Meghan also has stirred up rifts in the Kennedy family. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the prominent anti-vaccine crusader and Robert F. Kennedy’s second son, scoffed at the idea that the royal celebrities were worthy of an award given in his father’s name. Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. Senator, was assassinated in 1968 as he made his own bid to become president.
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