JAMAICA’S Prime Minister has been accused of speaking to Prince William and Kate “like naughty school children”, during their tour of the country.

William and Kate kept a dignified silence last week as Andrew Holness warned the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge that his nation is ‘moving on’ and intends to ditch the monarchy during a tense meeting.
Mr Holness described how Jamaica intended to fulfill its destiny ‘as an independent, developed, prosperous country’ in a meeting on Wednesday.
Former BBC presenter Jennie Bond said the scenes looked like something out of a school classroom but believes the Royal Family will brush off the criticism which has surrounded their ongoing tour.
Speaking on GB News, she said: “The Jamaican PM almost told them off like schoolchildren and made it clear that William is not going to be king of Jamaica. But the Royal Family will take it completely on board. They won’t be offended by it.

“This has been a tricky tour for William and Catherine. But it hasn’t been disastrous. Goodness knows in 30 years of covering Royal tours I’ve seen tricker moments than this.
“But it has definitely sparked a debate about the future of the Commonwealth.

However I think there’s a huge misunderstanding about what the Commonwealth is and what it represents. The Commonwealth is a network of 54 countries, 34 of them are Republics and only 15 of them have the Queen as head of state and five have their other Kings or Queens. So it’s not some kind of Royal club. It’s a network of countries that have shared ideals and shared values and they voluntarily belong to it.”

Bond also said it was possible the comments made by Meghan Markle in her explosive Oprah Winfrey interview last year, in which she accused a senior Royal of racism, may have impacted the reception Kate and Willam have received.

She added: “It’s possible the allegations by Meghan Markle about one of the royal family could have ‘landed’ in Jamaica. But fundamentally this is a direction many countries are going in. But it does not signal the end of the commonwealth and it certainly doesn’t signal the end of the monarchy.”

She also said that William was right for stopping short of saying sorry for Britain’s role in Jamacia’s slave past.The royal made the speech on Wednesday evening during an official dinner at King’s House, the residence of the governor-general of Jamaica, Sir Patrick Allen, acknowledging his country’s shameful history of selling the people of the Caribbean to the United States as slaves.

“He expressed deep sorrow,” Bond added. “He went as far as he could. To go any further would have been stepping into the area of politics which he can’t do.”