Senior royal aide Lady Susan Hussey has resigned from her role, following a race row at Buckingham Palace.

Charity boss Ngozi Fulani accused Hussey of ‘abuse’, following an awkward conversation they had at a charity event at Buckingham Palace this week. Fulani says she was repeatedly asked by Hussey where she was ‘really’ from. Although Fulani said she is from Hackney and is British, Hussey kept up the same line of questioning. Fulani has likened the conversation to an ‘interrogation’. She is of the view that Hussey was trying to make her feel ‘unwelcome’ in her ‘own space’. Following Hussey’s resignation, Buckingham Palace has described her questioning as ‘unacceptable and deeply regrettable’. A spokesperson for Prince William, who is Hussey’s godson, denounced her in the strongest possible terms, intoning that ‘racism has no place in our society’.