look at these snowflakes creeping up in the comment section about the "white and handsome". Have some brain guys, the entire scenario is in the middle ages with kings and shit, so of course backward thinking of the people is a common thing. As a reader you are suppose to understand these little things as a way of world building and not dive too deep about everything.
As the saying goes 'the one who smelled it did it', i believe in most instance the one who arbitrarily brings up racism are actually racist themselves