A black campaigner has said she has suffered “horrific abuse” on social media since revealing she was repeatedly asked where she “really came from” at a Buckingham Palace royal reception.
Ngozi Fulani, founder of the domestic abuse charity Sistah Space, said she was shocked at her treatment by the late Queen’s lady in waiting, Lady Susan Hussey.
In a statement issued on Monday, Ms Fulani said: “The last week has been an extremely difficult time for us all at Sistah Space.
“My team, family and I have been put under immense pressure and received some horrific abuse via social media.
“Yet throughout this time I have been heartened by the huge amount of support we have received.
“I want to thank everyone for that, and it has shown me that love will always triumph over hate.”
Lady Susan, the Prince of Wales’s 83-year-old godmother, resigned from the household and apologised after she repeatedly challenged Ms Fulani when she said she was British.
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The incident happened at the Queen Consort’s reception highlighting violence against women and girls.
Ms Fulani told Sky News last week: “I was not giving the answer that she wanted me to give. And so we could not move on.
“And it was when she said ‘I knew you’d get there in the end’ – that proved to me, you were determined to prove that I had no right to British citizenship.
“Now, that reminds me of the Windrush conversation, where 50 or 60 years on people who were born here, worked here or you know, have given so much, can just be thrown out.”
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Describing how Lady Hussey touched her hair to see her name badge, she added: “Now, abuse doesn’t have to be physical. But if you move my hair without permission, to me, that’s abuse.
“When you verbally attack, because that to me is what it is – you are determined that the answer that I gave you is not one you want to hear, you do not recognise me as British.
“And until I acknowledge that I’m not, you’re not going to stop. What do I do? What do I do at that point? So I become silent. And I hoped she would go away and she eventually did.”
Asked how she felt about the conversation, she said: “I was the victim if you will, of an offence, of racism.
“When this happens, and it’s so direct, and in a space like that, I kind of felt trapped in that space.”
