Newly engaged couple Princess
Martha Louise and Shama Durek Verrett enjoyed a date with friends on
Friday after opening up about receiving death threats.
Taking to her Instagram
Stories, the princess reshared a boomerang from Netflix producer Adi Shankar
which showed him, Martha Louise, Durek, and friend Jenny enjoying what appear
to be cocktails, in a glorious floral setting.
“We did too,” the
mother-of-three replied to Adi, who penned: “Had an awesome time hanging
with the [flame emoji] couple last night,” on the boomerang alongside a
red love heart emoji.
He also penned:
“Congratulations to Shaman Durek and Princess Martha on their
engagement,” in his stories.
The happy couple even
coordinated their outfits!
The evening out came after
Martha Louise and Durek opened up to their followers about the struggles of
being an interracial couple, including receiving death threats.
Speaking on an Instagram Live
on Thursday, Durek explained: “I think a lot of our relationship and why
people have such an issue with it, and why people write all this hate and send
death threats to us… is because one, they don’t want to see a black man in the
royal family because there’s never been one in the history of histories in the
European royal family so that’s a huge thing.
“Second, Martha is
a female. It’s different when a man chooses a woman of colour because he’s a
man… but for a princess to choose a man of colour, it has never been done in
history so it’s really tough for people to handle that.”
He added: “They don’t
want the Bridgertons, they want to watch it on TV but they don’t want the real
Bridgertons, which is us, so they get very upset and angry and say really mean
things, but they don’t understand that our world can’t stay the same, we have
to evolve.”
