Unless you want to consider the Age of the Empire, and all that it was in that period, I don’t know that overt racism had to be an issue to be discussed amongst the royals until now. They’ve never had someone of mixed race; that is someone who is in part African American. It’s well documented The Duke Of Edinburgh faced prejudice for his Greek heritage when joined the family but he is at least white. So I think the racism was always there; just under the surface. Whenever there is a threat to the status quo and a certain way of life it will always bring the worst out in some.
I don't think anyone was in doubt that she was unpopular there. The question is why?
I really couldn’t give a shit, can’t we shift this to Off Topic?