Surrey shop faces racism allegations over picture of tobacco plantation

Chairman of London Southbank Centre said he spotted image behind counter at Farrants in Cobham

A shop in Surrey has been accused of racism over an image that appears to show black people working on a tobacco plantation overseen by white men, after a friend of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex saw it while shopping.

Misan Harriman, the chairman of London's Southbank Centre and a photographer who has taken portraits of the Sussexes, said he was speechless when he spotted the image behind the counter in Farrants in Cobham while shopping for his daughters on Tuesday, adding he was lucky they were not in the shop with him.