Princess Michael of Kent slams 'racist' slur

Princess Michael of Kent has hit out at critics who accused her of racism after the second-division royal allegedly gave some obstreperous African Americans a piece of her mind in a New York restaurant.

The Princess — who is not actually from Kent but rather Austria — has denied that she asked the diners of color, including a Wall Street banker and a TV presenter, to "go back to the colonies". She further denies that she has a streak of racism running through her "the width of an Adolf Hitler autobahn" or that she is any more racist than the "common or garden Austrian".

The princess launched her counter-attack on last week's My Favourite Hymns where she appeared dressed in Zulu tribal dress and Malcolm X baseball cap and clutching a talking drum and a copy of Bob Marley's Greatest Hits. She told presenter John Stapleton that the accusations had been like "a knife in my heart" and explained how she had once travelled from South Africa to Mozambique disguised as a "half-caste" to savour the black experience first-hand.

She recounted the alleged incident — which took place at the Da Silvano restaurant in May — and claimed that her remarks had been misunderstood. The princess agreed there had been a table of raucous Soul Brothers close-by, and that she had requested: "Excuse me please, excuse me, would you mind terribly for a moment just being a bit quieter so that we could just hear the menu?"

When the former slaves refused to button their lips, the princess was unceremoniously moved to another table near the kitchen, or "in Siberia" as her unnamed dining companion put it. She then claims she answered: "Siberia? At this point I'd be ready to go back to the colonies."

The princess also told Stapleton of her troubled life blighted by the realisation that only about ten people in Britain like her — due, she says, to the fact that she is tall, foreign, half-Hungarian, Roman Catholic and "rather high-spirited". But not, she emphasised, racist. "No, not at all. I mean, don't get me wrong, some of my best friends are black," the princess told The Rockall Times as she sang along to a Snoop Doggy Dogg CD while surrounded by a stable of naked bitches with enormous buttocks. "And anyone who says I am will get a cap popped in his muthafuc*kin' nigger ass."

Previously

• 'Don't get me wrong, some of my best friends are wogs,' says UK barrister
• TV's 'Spooks' slammed as racist
• 'I am not a racist' declares football star
• Supermodel fights newspaper race hate vendetta