How should Prince William respond to questions about slavery?

It is uncanny how swiftly British culture imitates the worst of American culture. Take Whoopi Goldberg, who distinguished herself again last week on The View. For anyone who does not know, The View is a long-running US TV show in which a collection of the dimmest women in America are invited to opine angrily on things they know nothing about. Goldberg is a long-term resident of this asylum, though she recently had to take a break from the show after declaring that the Holocaust had nothing to do with race, was some white-on-white thing, and in any case (as a woman of colour) didn’t concern her.

Her suspension over, Goldberg returned and immediately began complaining about the royal family – specifically poor Prince William and his wife, who were then at the start of a tour of the Caribbean. Whoopi thought the royals should use their tour to apologise for the crimes of slavery.