Robert F. Kennedy’s daughter has revealed that Prince Harry and Meghan will receive an award for their “heroic” stand against “structural racism” in the royal family.
Kerry Kennedy, one of RFK and Ethel Kennedy’s 11 children and president of the foundation, will present the gong to them in a ceremony next month.
She said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex challenged the “power structure” of the royal family.
Past recipients of the same award include US President Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, as well as former Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
The gala is organized by the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation for Human Rights, named after President Kennedy’s younger brother, assassinated in 1968.
Kennedy, the ex-wife of disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, told The Telegraph: “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; that they could not maintain a misunderstanding about mental health. Few would dare question their colleagues, family and community about the power structure they have maintained, and that is what Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have done,” reports Metro.
Kennedy added that the Sussexes “knew that if they did this there would be consequences… and that people would blame them for it. They have done it anyway because they believed they couldn’t live with themselves if they didn’t question this authority. I think they have been heroic in taking this step,” reports Metro.
The decision to award them the highest human rights award has puzzled some Kennedy historians.
Professor David Nasaw, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Patriarch, about JFK and RFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy, said, ” find it somewhere between sublimely ridiculous and blatantly ludicrous. It’s absurd,” reports Metro.
Professor Nasaw said Kennedy Joe patriarch, a staunch Irish Catholic, would turn in his grave to see branches of his family “latching on to British Royalty”.
Tickets for the lavish gala are selling for up to $1 million, to be next to the former royal couple.
The “Pioneer” package includes four seats at the head table where the Duke and Duchess are expected to sit.
Hollywood singer Alec Baldwin will host the gala, which will also honor Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
While the decision to honor the Sussexes has puzzled some, it may not be a coincidence that the director of their upcoming Netflix documentary series, Liz Garbus, is associated in a film company with Rory Kennedy, the youngest son of Robert F. Kennedy
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