A ‘people’s princess’ unbound by race |
A ‘people’s princess’ unbound by race
The Boston Globe
2017-12-01
Renée Graham, Associate Editor and Columnist
 Meghan Markle greets wellwishers in Nottingham, England, with Prince Harry, on Dec. 1. OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images |
All it took for Meghan Markle to “become” black was a proposal from a prince.
“Black American Princess. Palace about to be lit,” a black woman tweeted hours after an official announcement of Markle’s engagement to Prince Harry. Another posted, “So I’ve seen a black president of the United States, and now I’ll see a black woman joining the British royal family. What a time to be alive.”
There’s just one caveat: Throughout her public life, Markle, the daughter of an African-American mother and a white father, has referred to herself as biracial or mixed-race…
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