Prince William and Meghan Markle were trending today here in the US and elsewhere around the world because of the Tweet Prince William sent out about "racist abuse aimed at England's players". Many were calling out his hypocrisy.
I decided to go through the Quote Tweets (2.396 at the time I did this) and focus on the Blue Checks. I discovered something interesting. These are the 22 Blue Checks condemning the hypocrisy of Prince William's Tweet, criticizing it, or giving it context in relation to Meghan:
These are the 23 Blue Checks whose comments are neutral or comment positively on Prince William's Tweet without pointing out any hypocrisy. With the exception of one (who is a retired Olympian), all are Royal Reporters/members of the press.
So out of the Blue Checks who Quote Tweeted Prince William's Tweet about racist abuse of England's football players:
22 are critical of Prince William's hypocrisy
22 are neutral to positive royal reporters/media
1 is a retired athlete who used an emoji in support of the sentiment
What's also interesting is the amount of engagement the above Blue Check Tweets got:
5 that were critical of Prince William's hypocrisy received over a likes (Imani Gandy received 14.8k)
0 that were neutral to positive received 1k (Chris Ship got 944 likes)
(The above was supposed to read over 1k likes, There was a typo I fixed then Twitter got glitchy when I copy and repasted it with the correct spelling and somehow 1k likes became "a likes".)
In case the above compilations are a little difficult to read, these are the other four Verified Account Tweets besides Imani Gandy's that had the most engagement as of fourteen hours ago when I did the screenshots:

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