KING Charles should ignore calls for an apology over slavery as critics are manufacturing “artificial grievances” for financial gain, according to a Royal commentator.

Rafe Heydel-Mankoo told GB News: “Apologising for the slave trade achieves nothing. It’s never going to placate those who make the loudest noise overall on this, the race grifters who make their money from stirring up racial grievances and manufacturing completely artificial grievances.

“We have to ensure that we don’t do things like this which actually embolden enemies of Britain and the monarchy.

“It also somehow suggests that the modern Royal Family is somehow culpable for the sins of the past. But as we all know, the sins of the father cannot be placed on the son.

“Nobody today bears any responsibility for slavery and no one today has any right to apologise, or any ability to apologise for what’s happened in the past and it’s important to note His Majesty has not apologised for slavery.”

In a discussion with Patrick Christys, he continued: “You would think that this document from the 1600s proves that Kensington Palace, which was under construction at the time that William III got this money, was built by slave money.

“But actually, if you look at it, King William III only got £1,000 pounds from this, which in today’s money is £163,000, an absolute drop in the ocean compared to the wealth that William III had when he was building Kensington Palace.

“In terms of the economy, only 3% of the British economy in around 1770 had any relation to the slave trade. So this myth that we hear a lot in this country now that the Empire, the Industrial Revolution, and the monarchy’s wealth was built on slavery is absolute nonsense.”

He added: “In the 1600s, we were executing people for witchcraft in England. It’s time that we’ve got some perspective over this business of simply manufacturing grievances, and those who are making this argument have very limited historical knowledge.

“Remember, it was King George III as a teenager who wrote a compelling essay saying slavery had no moral basis and was an abomination.

“It was King George III who signed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Bill in 1807, making Britain the first country and leading the world in the abolition of the slave trade.”