The British Monarchy Can Never Outrun Its Violent, Racist Past

It was wrong to hope that Meghan Markle could ‘assimilate’ into the royal family

Kitanya Harrison
GEN
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5 min readMar 5, 2021

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Photo: Anwar Hussein/WireImage

I didn’t watch Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s televised 2018 wedding. I couldn’t for the life of me understand the public obsession over the event, especially for anyone old enough to remember how the press literally…

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Kitanya Harrison
GEN
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