Years ago, Lady Gabriella Windsor dated an Indian man named Aatish Taseer. They were together long enough for Taseer to get to know Gabriella’s parents, Prince Michael of Kent and Princess Michael of Kent. In 2018, more than a decade after Taseer and Ella had broken up, he wrote a Vanity Fair piece about racism within the Windsor clan, and he made several really specific allegations about Princess Michael. Taseer’s VF piece was written as a warning to the Duchess of Sussex, but really he was just flatly exposing the casual racism seeped into everything royal. He even wrote: “Royals and Nazis go together like blini and caviar.” He also said that Princess Michael is “perfectly ghastly” and that she named her two black sheep Venus and Serena. Well, seven years after his VF article on royal racism, Taseer is speaking out again.
The former boyfriend of Lady Gabriella Windsor has doubled down on his claims of racism within the Royal Family in a new interview, as he prepares to publish a novel inspired by his relationship with the King’s cousin. Speaking on the podcast Tell Me About Your Father, Aatish Taseer, who was born in the UK and raised in India, recalled how he sparked a media storm in 2018 when he wrote an explosive article for Vanity Fair in which he claimed to lay bare intimate details of their relationship.
He admitted that he was ‘extremely indiscreet’ and said that in England there is ‘really no crime you can commit greater than that’ especially after remaining ‘very, very cozy’ with Princess Michael after splitting from her daughter. Taseer, who is now married to a man, even described the wife of the late Queen’s cousin as ‘a gay icon’, with the podcast host retorting: ‘If she wasn’t so racist, she’d be really marketable.’
He also repeated the claim that the late polo pal of King Charles, Kuldip Singh Dhillon was referred to as ‘Sooty’. Mr Singh, who died in 2023, previously insisted he ‘enjoyed’ the nickname.
Meanwhile, Taseer doubled down on one of his most sensational claims, that Gabriella’s mother, Princess Michael, once owned two black sheep at her former Gloucestershire home, which she named Venus and Serena after the tennis-playing Williams sisters.
The interview comes amid Taseer’s plans to release a novel he claims was inspired by his time with the Royal Family called In Their Country, about an aspiring journalist from New Delhi named Aleramo Singh Brusetti who is dating a member of the British Royal Family named ‘Rose’ who was brought up at Kensington Palace by her parents ‘Prince and Princess Albert’.
Although it is a work of fiction, an extract published by Air Mail weaves in real names and comments about royals such as Princess Margaret and Princess Diana and places including Kensington Palace and the restaurant Maggie Jones.…Taseer said that he remained close to Princess Michael after his relationship with Lady Gabriella ended. He told the podcast: ‘After Ella and I broke up, it was one of those relationships that was purely romantic and it didn’t have a kind of friendship component. But I was very, very close to Ella’s mother to Princess Michael and who I always think of as a kind of gay icon. I would see her from time to time after Ella and I broke up, she came to my first book launch and I would go and see her in England.Also, I think once I came out and was married to a man…it’s one of those situations where it must have felt like a betrayal of our time together.’
Elsewhere on the podcast, he discussed his claim regarding the names of Princess Michael’s sheep. ‘The English, it’s wild like that because the upper classes are so, they live at such a tremendous remove from the country. They really don’t even know that like, I mean, [King] Charles has a friend called Sooty. Yeah. Like just a close friend. So I think the Venus and Serena was just, it was just part of that, that kind of weird air of abstraction that exists around these people and how they’re not even aware of how shocking or offensive that might be.’
I know the Daily Mail is taking pains to clutch their pearls, but it’s become so ridiculous at this point, this years-long game of twisting themselves into pretzels to claim that Harry and Meghan’s “racism accusations” are just as awful as racism itself. They really believe it too, don’t they? That it’s one thing to be racist, but it’s altogether WORSE to call out one’s racism publicly. Anyway, yeah, news at seven, the Windsors are racist as f–k. They surround themselves with racists and they all treat Black people and all minorities like sh-t. Meghan was never treated fairly, and the royal racism has seeped into the palace briefings about the Sussexes, and thus, the British media feels extremely comfortable attacking Harry and Meghan for “accusing the royals of racism” while using racist language.
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- GABRIELLA WINDSOR AT THE RAISA GORBACHEV FOUNDATION LAUNCH GALA DINNER HELD AT ALTHORP HOUSE IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, UK. 10 JUNE 2006. PICTURES: / GABRIELLA WINDSOR,Image: 540262709, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Marc Larkin/Avalon
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- GABRIELLA WINDSOR AT THE RAISA GORBACHEV FOUNDATION LAUNCH GALA DINNER HELD AT ALTHORP HOUSE IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, UK. 10 JUNE 2006. PICTURES: / GABRIELLA WINDSOR,Image: 540262984, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Marc Larkin/Avalon
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- LADY GABRIELLA WINDSOR ARRIVING FOR ‘IN THE PINK’ CHARITY BASH FOR BREAST CANCER HAVEN, AT CADOGAN HALL IN LONDON. 20 JUNE 2005. PICTURES CAN NGUYEN LADY GABRIELLA WINDSOR,Image: 541889315, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Can Nguyen/Avalon
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- 10th June 2006, The Launch of the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation an international fundraiser fighting child cancer, the theme of the night was ‘A Midsummer Russian Fantasy’ at the family home of Diana princess of Wales in Althrop, England. Among those attending: Lady Gabriella Windsor and her boyfriend Credit: INFGoff.com Ref: kguk-55 Featuring: Lady Gabriella Windsor Where: Althrop, Great Britain When: 10 Jun 2006 Credit: INFGoff.com
Breaking news!!! The Windsors are racist!! We already know that.
People will say, “duh!”, but we see some british POC are giving interviews about how they talked to some royal once in a party and they are certain BRF isn’t racist and Meghan must have misunderstood or she is lying. For the people in the back, there is a difference between getting married into a family and talking to the same family from time to time because it is their job to do meet & greet. Gabriella seems to rise above her parents from the outside though.
In my experience as a Black woman, it truly is considered far worse to call out racists. I’ve been called toxic and negative for doing so. The persons who racially abused me were protected and I was dragged. Typical.
Wait…he remained close to this awful racist woman, and calls her a “gay icon”?! This guy is way off.
Yes, it’s strange… he was close to her as what?—her pet? It’s not clear how she saw him.
I mean he just confirms Meghan and Harry’s experience in the family. They are racist and were making racists comments.
OF COURSE Princess Michael is racist—her father was a literal Nazi and, as far as we know, she hasn’t denounced him.
Yes this needs to be mentioned way more. It goes far beyond casual racism with her.
She wore that blackamoor brooch to meet Meghan. This case has been closed for a long time.
Royalty and aristocracy is a *political* system built on hierarchy. The whole edifice is designed to reinforce notions of worth based on birth, and so yes, of course they are deeply racist. They also believe in human sacrifice, as seen by the fact that William, and now George, have no choice about their lives. They will be kings. Period. End of. It’s a gilded cage, but it’s still a cage.
Burn the whole thing down as far as I’m concerned.
Finally! I’ve been waiting for someone (anyone) to write a novel about the Windsors and (hopefully) brutally expose everything. The lies, the racism, the double lives, ALL of it. It’s such a huge opportunity and payday. I thought one of the rota would jump ship and make millions by doing this, so I appreciate Aatish’s entrepreneurial spirit!
I was curious so I looked up the man nicknamed Sooty. He played polo, was friends with Andrew Parker Bowles and Camilla and it was Charles himself who came up with the nickname?? Jesus
yeah, I think this is the missing point for many – a POC can meet Charles or William at a royal event and they might be perfectly nice and chatty etc. but it doesnt mean the family and the institution as a whole isn’t racist.
i mean I think a lot of racist people are like that – they can meet a POC and they’re nice to them and like them because “you’re not like the rest” or something. Racism usually does not mean chasing someone out of town wearing a white hood. It can often be a lot more insidious than that. A white person can be perfectly “nice” to a Black person and still think they don’t deserve equal rights or that they need to know their place etc.
Absolutely this👆🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼..
A lot of modern racism, and other types of tribalism, only show ups when family members start dating someone from outside. You will run into all sorts of people who will insist they aren’t racist they just don’t want their son/daughter marrying an X
He is extremely handsome…to good looking for that family.
I’d say he hit the nail on the head with his second point as well, that in England there is “really no crime you can commit greater than” being indiscreet. We’ve certainly seen this clearly in article after article about the RF vs. H&M – one of H&M’s major crimes is supposedly just speaking out, and not keeping “family business” among family.
People of Color/ Melanated Peoples are the Global Majority. We should stop using the term “minorities” when referring to the people who populate most of the planet.
It’s wild how a tiny group of inbred people have managed to run a thousand year scam on everyone.