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Marie-Christine has a long history of being racist and straight up problematic. She once said she "lives in the 18th century."

In 2004, she was accused of racially insulting Black diners at a restaurant in New York. A spokesperson acknowledged that she had been angry at the group seated near her but denied that she had told them to "go back to the colonies". In a later interview, she described the group as "a group of rappers", although it included the TV reporter A. J. Calloway a banker, a lawyer, and a music executive.

In 2005, while promoting one of her books, Marie-Christine gave interviews in which she said Britons should be more concerned about the bloodlines of their children, and claimed that the British media were "excited" by Prince Harry's decision to wear a swastika at a fancy dress party because of the press' "ownership structure", a remark interpreted by some commentators as antisemitic. She added that "nobody would have got excited" had he worn the hammer and sickle.

After hearing of research by Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth suggesting that rank among female baboons is hereditary, Marie-Christine reportedly remarked: "I always knew that when people who aren't like us claim that hereditary rank is not part of human nature, they must be wrong. Now you've given me evolutionary proof!"

In 2017, she was criticised for wearing a blackamoor brooch depicting a stylised African figure to a Christmas banquet at Buckingham Palace attended by Meghan Markle, then the fiancée of Harry. A spokesperson later said that she "is very sorry and distressed that it has caused offence".

In 2018, British-American writer and journalist Aatish Taseer, formerly her daughter's partner, alleged that Marie-Christine had owned a pair of black sheep named after Venus and Serena Williams.

Also worth mentioning is that her father Günther-Hubertus Freiherr von Reibnitz was a cavalry officer in the German army during the First World War. He joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and was a member of the SS Cavalry Corps, but would be dismissed by the party in 1944 for perceived disloyalty.