当地时间4月9日，英国白金汉宫发表声明称：“爱丁堡公爵菲利普亲王殿下于今早在温莎城堡去世。”
对此，哈里和梅根在他们的慈善机构网站（Archewell.com）上发表了一段简短的悼词，写道：“挚爱悼念爱丁堡公爵菲利普亲王殿下，1921 -2021。谢谢你的付出…你将被深深怀念。”
距离哈里王子与梅根王妃宣布“脱离王室”已经过去一年了。这一年里，夫妇两人的举动总能引发全球媒体的关注。前不久梅根在接受美国著名主持人奥普拉采访时，爆料“秘辛”，指责王室种族歧视，再次引发震动。
而梅根的混血背景使得夫妇与王室之家的纠葛更加复杂。
Meghan：we have …… also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.
梅根：在孩子（阿奇）出生前，王室内部有人讨论孩子的肤色会有多“黑”。
种族歧视、封建古板、不近人情的标签又将英国王室推上风口浪尖。
A report in Britain’s Mail suggested that the queen will be hiring a “diversity tsar.”
前不久，有报道称英国女王将聘任一位多样性首席顾问。在企业语境中，这一职位常被称首席多样性官（CDO，chief diversity officer.）。
什么是CDO？
现在越来越多企业设立首席多样性官这一职务。社会对于多样性、包容、歧视、骚扰等问题的看法不断前进，企业需要一位首席多样性官来解决相关的问题。
一般来说，一位CDO需要使得组织成员多样化，增强组织包容性，优化组织文化，具体工作内容有：
@以数据为基础，制定、管理和执行多样性与包容性战略
@监督并处理有关骚扰、歧视等员工投诉
@解决特定员工群体面临的问题等等
虽然英国王室已是当今世界上为数不多且影响力巨大的一个家族。但是，其地位和意义却使之不能简单的被看作是一个“四代同堂”的大家庭。从国家利益与王室形象的角度出发，它也可被视为一家企业，成员各司其职，完成自己应尽的义务。
引入一位CDO，更体现出了王室作为一张“名片”所应承担的责任。
"Diversity is an issue which has been taken very seriously across the Royal Households," a royal source said. "We have the policies, the procedures and programmes in place but we haven't seen the progress we would like in terms of representation and more needs to be done, we can always improve."
"全体王室成员都非常重视多样性的问题，"一位王室人士表示。"我们已经制定了相关的政策、流程和方案，但预期的改进效果还没有显现，还需要做更多的工作，我们仍在改进。"
"Lots of measures are being considered. Certainly the idea of someone to spearhead this work and look at diversity / inclusion across the three households is something that has to be considered," the source added.
"王室正在考虑许多措施。当然也包括启用专人来领导这项工作，研究三个家庭的多样性或包容性。"消息人士补充。
当我们在谈论王室多样性时
我们在讨论什么？
Are we talking about Queen Elizabeth clicking through an e-learning module on an iPad? Prince Charles doing role-playing exercises?
就此话题，从事多样性相关行业的专家们来了一场
（伪）圆桌对话。
出场专家
Bärí A.Williams：科技主管和律师，曾为初创企业提供多样性方面的建议
Janelle Williams Melendrez：一咨询公司的联合总裁
Y-Vonne Hutchinson：一家专注于多样性、公平和包容的咨询公司CEO
Michelle Silverthorn：Inclusion Nation创始人兼首席执行官、同时是《真实的多样性：如何彻底改变职场现状》一书的作者
王室聘任CDO可行吗？
Honestly, I thought, ‘Good,’ ” of hearing about the royal family’s plans. She said it was important for people in the U.K. to see these problems acknowledged at the highest level.
Williams Melendrez
Y-Vonne Hutchin-son
If the family is serious—and that remains an open question in her eyes—their first move should be hiring a firm rather than an in-house diversity chief. “A firm provides a different level of support and a different level of accountability. Anybody who goes in as a diversity consultant or gets hired in is going to have a much more difficult time because they’re going to be more deeply embedded and they’re going to be more deeply vulnerable to whims of that family.”
有谁想当白金汉宫的CDO吗？
I think if we were offered the chance to do this, we would have a lot of questions. We don’t know what the true investment is. We don’t know who would be involved. We don’t know how much time they were willing to invest.
Williams Melendrez
Hutchinson则没有这么谨慎。
Y-Vonne Hutchin-son
I totally would because it would be the most interesting job in the world.
王室ODC会做什么工作？
Williams Melendrez说，如果她担任王室多样性顾问，课程前的第一步就是收集数据。
I would ask questions about what people know and understand, what their background is, where their feelings are, to determine what the areas of entry are of being able to help people see where similar connections are but also understanding what’s the baseline. Do I need to talk about microaggressions or can I talk about systemic oppression?
Williams Melendrez
Michelle Silverthorn质疑，单凭一己之力或一司之力并不能缓解王室家庭的内部矛盾。
Michelle Silverthorn
That’s a family relationship and I would hope that whoever they bring in as a consultant encourages them to find a common ground to talk with each other and to work through the interpersonal challenges that they have. That is something that a diversity consultant doesn’t fix.
Silverthorn还认为，由于王室本身的帝国历史，工作内容将会超出顾问的能力范围。"多样性顾问并不解决曾经的种族主义和与之相关的制度性歧视。那经济学家和历史学家该做的事"。
王室成员会接受多样性改革吗？
虽然Silverthorn觉得CDO对王室成员的影响不大，但她认为这对白金汉宫的员工和文化会有效果。她猜想，与王室合作的组织成员，或全职员工，或承包商，或志愿者，他们在看梅根回答采访时，感觉自己“被听到了，被看到了”，仿佛“梅根的经历与自己的如出一辙”。
A very targeted, multipronged diversity training for the staff would probably be immensely helpful. My guess is, on a day-to-day basis, they’re making most of the tactical decisions, and the strategic ones are probably coming from the family members.”
Williams Melendrez
但她对王室本身持有不同建议。
I think, based off of the allegations we heard in the interview, the family itself just kind of needs maybe a three-day-long workshop on allyship.
Bärí A.Williams
即使王室老一辈王室成员很难动摇，Williams仍对年轻一代寄予希望。
Bärí A.Williams
I don’t know that [diversity]’s necessarily something that you’re going to be move Prince Philip on,” she said. “But it could be something you can move [Prince William’s children] George and Charlotte and Louis on.
Hutchinson认为，王室需要明白，目前的危机并不仅仅是梅根引起的—有一个站得住脚且利己的理由促使他们主动求变。
Y-Vonne Hutchin-son
If their primary function is to generate revenue for the state and serve as a unifying figurehead, and they’re unable to do that because they don’t understand the multiracial context in which they operate and they exhaust the goodwill of the people, then that’s an existential question.
What seemed key was determining early on if the royal family is really invested in change or just wants to make the public forget about the problems the Oprah interview raised. “Is it just a PR campaign?” Hutchinson said. “Is it just diversity theater?”
问题的关键在于王室是否“真心诚意”想要改革，还是只是想让公众忘记奥普拉在采访中提出的问题。Hutchinson 说："这只是一次危机公关吗？或者这只是一出多样性的做戏？"
抛开哈里梅根与王室的纠葛不谈。不能否认的是，英国王室已不再高高在上，八卦缠身的它影响力大不及从前。戴着帝国主义和殖民主义枷锁的英国王室，面对平权主义、世界一体化和许多新浪潮，不得不放下高贵和尊严，重新审视自身和价值，主动求变。
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