In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, an ex-boyfriend of the Princess of Kent's daughter, Ella Windsor, opened up about his experience as an almost-royal family member and the unpopularity of Ella's mother, who was known by some to be "perfectly ghastly," due to her reported bigotry.
"Princess Michael, though generally free of British colonial prejudices, and beyond reproach when it came to me, nevertheless invited trouble out of what felt like a desire to shock: her pair of black sheep in Gloucestershire were named Venus and Serena," he explained, but quickly defended the so-called pushy princess. "Most everybody thought she was 'perfectly ghastly,' but I saw a nice side of Princess Michael. She could be funny, intelligent, generous, and she was a lot more industrious than the other royals."
It’s unclear if Princess Michael still has the sheep, who were apparently named after the famous African-American tennis playing sisters, Venus and Serena Williams.
But the princess' names for her black sheep is this is not the first incident opening her up to criticism for her racist attitudes.
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