In 2021, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah aired in the US and around the world. The Windsors completely panicked. Pre-interview, they signed off on Prince William’s scheme to smear Meghan as a sociopathic bully who made staffers scream and cry with just a look. Post-interview, the Windsors tried to change the subject (??) by announcing that they had BIG plans to hire a “diversity czar.” Remember how big those headlines were? Blaring headlines about how QEII and Charles suddenly realized – no, they realized months before the Oprah interview – that what they needed most was a shiny new diversity czar. A few months after the interview, the palace admitted that whoops, they didn’t hire anyone and they weren’t going to. After QEII’s death, King Charles’s staff admitted that they put together an 88% white committee to “tackle palace diversity,” yet there was mysteriously still no diversity czar. Now, suddenly, there was a diversity czar this whole time, and yet no one ever paid attention to her? It doesn’t matter because she recently quit.
King Charles’s diversity czar who was brought in after the Harry and Meghan race row has quit.
Eva Omaghomi, who was the King’s most senior black aide, was appointed to a newly created role of director of community engagement in July 2021. She had worked for the Royal Household for 13 years before picking up the job at the height of the Royal Family race row.
Her job was said to be to ‘help take forward Their Royal Highnesses’ work with minority groups in the UK, Commonwealth and globally’.
She was by the King’s side throughout his visit to Rwanda two years ago but was not in Samoa or Australia. It is understood she resigned her post last month for a job in the private sector with insiders “sorry to see her go”.
Granted, this news has skewed the results I’m getting, but this is the first time most people have even heard that Eva Omaghomi was supposedly the Windsors’ diversity czar for the past three-and-a-half years? Why were the Windsors taking L after L about their childish PR scheme for a czar if they could have pointed to Omaghomi this whole time? That makes me wonder if the palace has just recently decided that Omaghomi had that “diversity czar” job the whole time now that she’s left royal work. The Windsors are all about revisionist history, and I would love to hear from Omaghomi about what she thought her role really was and whether she knew that she was supposed to be the Black czarina.
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this feels weird, right? Like they had a “diversity czar” this whole time and we’re only hearing about it as she’s leaving? They never used it as proof of how “very much not a racist family” they are??
It feels untrue.
If true, then Eva Omaghomi might have insisted that they could not attach her name to anything BP did that she disagreed with.
@Becks1 – ITA especially when they made a huge fuss about saying they couldn’t find anyone suitable and that they were no longer looking! I wonder if “they” decided she was the Diversity Tzar and didn’t tell her until after she left. Surely if she really was in the role, we would have seen more of her when Ngozi Fluni was racially insulted by Susan Hussey. Being a black woman (and a very attractive one at that) the royals would have shamelessly paraded her in front of every camera going to let us know they really are “not a racist family.”
Welp, I’d say America needs a diversity czar but it’s clear that a good amount of people don’t want one. Just like the royals. And yeah, it’s weird that they’re now saying that’s what she was after the fact. Y’all, I’m truly not okay right now but I’m trying to function and that means reading and commenting on royal stories even though my soul and heart are breaking. I’m in a very red area and it feels lonely af right now.
Hugs, Jais! It’s not a good or safe feeling when the people around you don’t share your values and feel dangerous. I live in an area that voted for the Dutch fascist.
Thx @ML❤️. I keep getting looked at like I’m crazy for crying. And told what’s done is done so no use getting upset about it. And I just…now I’m feeling crazy. I really appreciate you and everyone posting today and lifting spirits as best as we can.
Thanks, I needed a good laugh. I don’t believe for a minute that she was “diversity czar.” At the most, I think this task was tacked onto whatever job she was doing for the past 13 years. Like:
BP: Congrats! You are now diversity czar!
Eva: Oh, is this a promotion?
BP: No, you’ll be doing this along with your other job.
Eva: Is there more money?
BP: Now Eva, you know we don’t have any money.
Eva: Is there a plan? A goal?
BP: Let this be a challenge for you.
Eva: *starts updating her resume*
That’s because she wasn’t really the diversity czar. She was Director of Community Engagement, whatever that was. I suspect she left because she was given this new position without any real role. There’s a picture of her hugging Harry in NY so she’s been gone for more than a month. The press only just found out about it.
The uncovering of the Windsors continues
Most entertaining.
Will there be any stories about how she must have been “bullied” out of her job? I think not.