As millions of Britons celebrated Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee — 70 years on the throne — an old anecdote, which raised the prospect of casual racism on the part of the U.K. monarch, gained prominence once again on social media.
sought to fight back against the claims of racism, asserting that the ambassador in question was actually Walter Annenberg — U.S. ambassador to the U.K. between 1969 and 1974 — who was white.
For several decades, it remained unavailable to the viewing public and took on quasi-legendary status, as well as becoming aleaked in full online Seated around a table, ostensibly at Windsor Castle, are Elizabeth; her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; and their children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
So I said, you know, what an extraordinary remark to make, very unkind, about anybody. So I stood in the middle of the room and pressed the bell and the doors opened, and there was a gorilla! [Laughter] And I had the most terrible trouble in keeping — you know, he had [a] short body, long arms…Oh yes. [Laughter] And I had the most appalling trouble, because nobody else knew — except me — what he’d said, you see.
Up to that point, Elizabeth had been monarch during the tenures of seven home secretaries, but our research into the memoirs and recollections of those men provided no further information about the “gorilla” incident. Say, for example, it was another government official, and not the home secretary, who had made the initial remark to her. Or if the word used was slightly different — “monkey” rather than “gorilla,” for example — this could also scupper any attempt to get to the bottom of this particular mystery.when the Huffington Post submitted questions about the “gorilla” scene from the 1969 documentary.
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