Prince Andrew bashed for former ‘racist tendencies’: report Entertainment An insider recently shed light on some of Prince Andrew’s racist behavior towards Arabs. The news was brought forward by former Labour minister Jacqui Smith. In her riveting admission regarding on of Prince Andrew’s past racist actions, she went on the Jeremy Vine’s show and admitted, “I did say, I did hear [Andrew] say racist things and I did say it; I mean, I haven’t talked a lot about it since and think Sophia makes an important point.” “Your argument, Jeremy, was that the Royal Family have modernised ‒ well, I’m not sure it has modernised enough, given some of the enormous controversy and hurt that a lot of people felt around Meghan Markle’s suggestions that she had been treated in a racist way, incidentally not only the Royal Family but also, of course, by the British media as well in the way in which she was treated.”