Is Meghan Markle proud of being biracial? The Duchess of Sussex was born to a Caucasian father and an African-American mother and some royal followers think the Prince Harry's wife is only proud of her black and white heritage whenever it suited her.
Royal observers discussing the Duchess of Sussex's skin color on Quora think that Meghan uses a bronzer on her skin to emphasize that she's biracial as she's, allegedly, too pale to look like an African-American. However, the same commenter also think that she is not fully embracing who she is because she straightens her naturally curly African-American hair and she has Caucasian features.
Another participant in the discussion said that Meghan Markle is "really eager to pass for white." She, allegedly, believes that people think of her mother, Doria Ragland, as her nanny.
The Duchess of Sussex did share in a column in Elle, which she wrote in 2015 or months before meeting Prince Harry, that people always assumed her mom was the nanny. However, she discussed her thoughts at length about being a biracial woman in the article.
Meghan Markle wrote that she struggled with her identity as child because being part of a mixed-race family remains a grey area at that time. She recalled that she grew up in a community devoid of diversity but her parents always made her feel that she was not different but special.
One time, Meghan Markle said that needed to fill out a census form in school that didn't have a box for her identity. Her teacher told her she could check the "white" box because "that's how you look." In her heart, however, she felt that it's not right to choose one race over the other since it's not who she is.
Her father, on the other hand, told her to ignore the choices and make her own box the next time something like this happened. Since then, Meghan Markle said that she has embraced that she is not black and white -- she's grey, so she drew her own box on her identity.
Meghan Markle, actually, drew her on box on her wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018. The Sussex couple invited Reverend Michael Bruce Curry, an African-American church leader, to deliver the sermon. He quoted words from the iconic Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle also had a black gospel choir singing during the wedding ceremony. A black cellist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, performed for the couple as well and the wedding was widely praised by royal fans around the world for its inclusivity.
